TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume XXV, Issue 126, 11 October 1866, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

[By Submarine Telegraph.] Wellington, "Wednesday evening, October 10. The Court of Appeal opened formally this morning, and adjourned to Monday next. The five .Judges have arrived.

The late Fatal Stabbing- Case in Lyttelton.—The Lyttelton Times, of tho 27th September, gives the following particulars of Hie late stabbing case in Lyttelton, when a sailor belonging to the brig Eona, lost his life :—": — " On Monday last, William Donald, Esq., the Eesident Magistrate, held a private Court in the gaol, for the purpose of binding over the witnesses in this case to prosecute on behalf of the Crown. All the depositions taken at the inquest were read over. The prisoner Ives was present, and at the close of the proceedings, made the following confession : — When we came ashore, we went to the butcher's. Ned said, ' We'll get Borne meat.' We bought some meat and left it at the butcher's. The butcher gave me a shilling. Ned said, ' You've got a shilling, we three will go and see if we can get three drinks for a shilling.' I gave blaekfellow three oranges. Ned said, ' You go to Johnson's and get some bread.' Wo went there, and all came down together and met a waterman. Ned and the waterman went in and had a drink. I and Frank had two drinks for the shilling. Ned said, c Stay there, I'll go and get some cigars.' We waited for Ned at the Queen's. We saw a waterman who gave Ned half-a-crown. We all went to the public house (The Canterbury). Ned Baid, ' Go to Johnson's and send some bread and onions down to the butcher's house.' When I came down, Ned was there. He asked the butcher to give him a couple of shillings. He said, ' I won't give it you to-night.' Ned said, ' I want it to-night, not another day. 1 Ned, the butcher, and I carried the meat down together, and went to the public hotise. Ned said to me, 'Go and see where the boat is.' I went down to the wharf, and came back again. A pipe was in my mouth ; Ned came and pulled the pipe out of my mouth. He said, 1 There is nothing in tho pipe.' He asked me if I had any tobacco. I said, 'Yes,' and gave him a piece. He said, ' You got a knife ?' I said, ' Yes.' He said, ' Give it to me.' I gave it to him. He said, 'We'll have a good smoke; we'll go inside, and light the pipe.' He did not give me back the knife or tobacco. I went inside the public house, Ned said, ' Henry, we'll .go down.** The butcher said, 1 Come on, I'm going to shut up.' The butcher said, ' Show me the boat,' I went down to the. boat with him and took the meat. I went into the boat ; the butcher gave me the meat, I put it in the stern of the boat. I saw them all come down. Ned asked me if the meat was all right. I said ' Yes, all right.' We all went up again to the public house, and had two or three drinks each. We all went down to the boat again ; I carried two oars, and passed them into the boat. I tried to go down in the boat. Jim knocked me down in the boat. I said, ' I'm a small fellow, don't you do that to me ; if you like to fight give me fair play, and go up on the wharf.' He called to me ' Come on.' I did not go up. Ned stood up with my knife in his hand. He said 1 What you try to do.' He lifted his hand up. I saw my knife in his hand. He said ' Look out.' I lifted my hand up Lo take away the knife from his hand. If I had not done it quick he would have killed me. I took the knife and drove it through Ned's side. I dropped the knife overboard. After I had done it I was sorry for it. I wish I had not done it. I was always good friends with Ned. We wero just like two brothers on board tho brig Eona. I had about seven or eight glasses that night. I was I drunk, We were all drunk that night."