NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XX, Issue 6825, 2 October 1883, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

♦ [press association.] NAPIER, Monday. The vital statistics for the month are s Births, 27; marriagss, 3 ; deaths, 13. The Customs revenue for the month is £3004, beer duty £105. For the quarter the Customs duties are £9186, and beer duty £494. WANGANUI, Monday. Vital statistics for the month : Births, 33? marriages, 8; deaths, 2. Customs receipts for the month s £1084 lis lid, including £169 0s 3d beer doty. For the quarter : Customs, £2828 17s 6d t beer duty, £509 19a Id. Amount received for corresponding period of last year : Customs, £3990 12s 4d; beer duty, £602 ISs Id. WELLINGTON, Monday. j Shortly before leaving for Newcastle, the j captain of the Kilmeny insured his life in j the Government Insurance Company?* for £300. He leaves a wife and family in England. At the Supreme Court, William Smith, for larceny, was sentenced to six months*, and John Littler, larceny from the person, to twelve months' imprisonment. A young man named James Hammond 1 , ; engaged as a clerk in Messrs. W. and G. Turnbull and Co.'a atore, has been arrested on a charge of forging the signature of Nicholas Reid, the manager of the firm, to & cheque for £20. HOKITIKA, Monday. i The Supreme Court was opened this morning by the Chief Justice. There are seven eases onthe calendar. A nolle prosequi was I entered in the indictment against Margaret ■ Peters for attempted suicide. Arthur Lennox ; Swete, who pleaded guilty to uttering » forged cheque for £9 10s, was sentenced to 5 years. There were two previous convictions against him. Hannah Kemple, charged | with perjury, was found guilty, and sentence j was deferred till to-morrow. JNb true bill • j? was found in the case of Regina v. Hughes p for maliciously wounding a cow. Two casea jj< remain to be tried—Hollywood for perjury, |i and Witham for larceny. |l CHRISTCHTJRCH, Monday. j' Experiments made with tbe distilled oil of -|j the Southern Cross Company showed & jji specific gravity of 8" 00, and the flashing H point 145 degrees Fahr. h Tbe Customs revenue for September h amounted to £25,718, and the beer duty Jj to £126. Last year the figures vera li £13,648 aad £765. || The following sentences were passed at f\ the Supreme 'Court to-day :—Charles Beard, fe six weeks' imprisonmunt without hard 11$ labour, for assault; William Augustus Moon, -.-.^JS fourteen years' penal servitude, for forgery S and uttering; Robert Heller, four years' gj penal servitude, for forgery and uttering. '■ ' W Thomas Mann, accused of stealing a ring, was ! jgj acquitted. ■> m The annual horse parade of the Canter- ■'•'.: j§| bury Agricultural Association was held to- ji'' day. M The births in Christchurch last month U'J were 151, a decrease of 32 on the name jfel month of last year. The marriages and; m$ deaths, however, show favourable returns', j'iSJ the former being 37 against 28, and tbe ||| latter 51 against 63. The totals for thst .W§, three quarters of the present year are:— fe Births, 1175; marriages, 369 ; d-aths, 601. ||| A daring attempt at incendiarism was ~ i)A discovered on Saturday morning. Some fp|: person or persons unknown had deliberately {«,§, set fire, in two places, to the premises at fSt the back of Mr. Churton's drapery establish- It]' ment in Cashel-street, and occupied by Mr. |||| Walters, ironmonger. One of the back -tW windows had been opened, and the culprit lip had by that means effected an entrance and fp lighted the place in two separate portions. vij Fortunately the fire burnt itself out. The |-j attempt was discovered shortly after busi- ; '.. lit ness was resumed on Saturday morning. ■'* J}) OAM A RU, Monday. ' jjk • The Customs revenue of the past month ia If 1 £947, and for the quarter £2807. m DONEDIN, Monday. p;i At the Supreme Court, Alfred Scruby waa Mj found guilty of stealin? fifty £1 notes from fc George Dyke, at the Working Men's Club, §jj and sentenced to nine months' imprisonment. iff The case against the Roys for shooting fire~ M man Henderson, comes on to-morrow. -E| To-day was the opening of the present |i fishing season, but in the Southern districts. w; the weather was cold gand stormy, and Eijj!many persons were thus deprived from in- || dulginj! in the sport. |?J The Refrigerating Company have received pi a cablegram intimating that the average price . g'jj! realised for the lonic's cargo is 6|d. \sl INVERCARGILL, Monday. fc In the District Court judgment has beea : jlE.i given in the case of McLeod v. New River ffi Harbour Board and Campbell and Ritchie. if] This was an action to recover damages of f}\< £100 for injuries sustained by the Edith ip Reid while unloading at fnvercargill jetty. f^ The jury returned a verdict to the effect that Iff; one or other of the defendant* was liable, i-||; and after hearing the legal argument too ||'jp Judge decided that the Board was liable for if !£ the amount claimed. j fill - 11l