THIS DATS TELEGRAMS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXII, Issue 154, 3 July 1888, Page 2

THIS DATS TELEGRAMS.

Timabu, July 2. At the Police Court today G. Goode, a porter at the Groavenor Hotel, was charged with the larceny af a P.O. order for £3. H*e was given a letter to post by the wife of the licensee on the 14th ult. for the 'Frisoo mail, and the envelope and order (there was no letter written) ware found in his room on Saturday, He explained that he was busy when give*, the letter, and put it in his trousers pooket and forgot all about it till he found it in his pooket last Thursday. The envelope then being very dirty, he resolved to put it in a fresh one and post it by the next mail and say npthing about it for fear of dismissal. He was sentenced to seven days. Christohhbch, July 2. The Supreme Court criminal sittings opened t§ day before Mr Justice Ward, who congratulated the Grand Jury on the lightness of the calendar and expressed his sense of the loss s«stainsd by the oolony through the death of Mr Justice Johnston.— Esther Matilda Everett pleaded guilty to forging a cheque for £11 on the Colonial Bank. Th« probation officer's report was very favorable and she was placed on probation for twelve months. Wellington, July 3. At the Supreme Court Heary Fuller, for receiving stolen property, was sentenced to three years ; Thomas Ewart, who pleaded guilty of horse stealing, to 12 months ; the boy Alexander F. McMinn, who pleaded guilty to stealing a diamond riag, will be brought up to-morrow for sentence. The session is expected to conclude to-morrow. George Ewart, for the larceny of a gun, was acquitted, DUHBDIN, July 3. At the Supreme Court Rosenberg was acquitted of forgery and uttering. Throe ocher oharges art pending. Port Cbalhebs, July 8, Arrived— J. P. Peterß, barque, Oapfc. Lane, after an uneventful passage of' 139 days from New York. She brings 2000 tons of cargo, 800 tons being for Lyttelton.