TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 930, 9 April 1879, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(pep. rr.fcv< a»:o(-i.\tio.v.) WELLINGTON. April S. Mr. Justice Richmond yesterday drew attention to the necessity for some further provision beitij; made for juvenile criminals, cither by increasing the number of reformatories, or by establishing training ships for boys convicted of a first offence. In course of his examination m a case of manslaughter, at the Supreme Court to-dav, Dr.~Divcr stated that the skull of the man Henrv Batiks, was the thinnest he had ever seen during 22 years' practice. Dr. Keating offered similar testimony. It appeared from the evidence that the blow which wa3 inflicted on the head of deceased would not have injured a skull of ordinary thickness. A robbery took place between Saturday nii-ht and "Monday morning from the •\fheiuetim. The librarian reports that on Saturdav night he left the cash-box, containing L 23 14s Gd in cash, notes, and cheques, in his desk, which, between the times mentioned, was forced open, and the cash-box and contents removed. The Governor leaves here in the Hine--1 moa on the 18th inst., for ihe Bluff, and ifrwm thence he will proceed overland

through Southland, Otago, and Canterbur}*, spending about three weeks on the tour. The Hinemoa has not yet returned from Opunake, but is expected to-night, and will leave again to-morrow with Mr. Shcehan. April 9. '

In passing sentence on the lad Bacon, who pleaded guilty to the Anchor Office robbery, Judge Richmond said he thought he should be consulting the public interest by refraining from sending the boy to a school of crime, where he would certainly become worse. He would therefore give him a chance of retrieving his character by releasing him upon the recognizance of his father and Mr. \V. F. Cheeseman, in L2OO each, to come up for sentence when called upon. . ' Peter Xewton, for robbery from a drunken man, in a public-house, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment.

DUNEDIN. April 8. Messrs. Oliver, Driver, and Bastings, M.H.R.'s. have sent by telegram a strong remonstrance to the Minister of Public Works against the acceptance of tenders for the erection of extensive railway workshops at Addington, near Christchurch, and urging that Duncdin is the nroper centre for the railway arrangements .'.f the Middle Island. It is said that the workshops are to cost LJOO.OOO. Mr Coiivcrs, Commissioner of Railways for the Middle Island, has returned from Queenstown, via Invercargill, much improved in health. At the Supreme Court criminal session, Timothy Flaherty, charged with burglary, was acquitted ; William Thomas Salmon, for forging and uttering, was found guiltv, and sentenced to four years' penal servitude ; George Anselmy, convicted of burglary, was sentenced to twelve months; Alex. M'Leod and Alfred Shears, for stealing from the person, got six months' hard labor ; John Moon, for a rape on a girl seven years' old, was found guilty, and sentenced to 10 years' penal servitude, with two private whippings of 35 lashes each, with the cat-o'-nine-tails ; Win. May Wallace, stealing from the person, was sentenced to 12 months' hard labor. At the Milton Police Court, before Mr E. H. Carcw, P.M., John Alexander Duthic and James Daniels, for unlawfully I hunting a hare out of season, were each | fined LSO, with costs. Half the amount I of the tines goes to the ranger, Burt, who ; prosecuted.

CHRISTCHUKCH. April 8. All the cases heard at the Supreme Court to-day, ended in acquittals. The Court was occupied till a quarter to S, hearing the cases of Alexander Fitzgerald, and Kstlier Carr, larceny, and Peter James Fowler, the railway guard, who was charged with embezzling money he li:id received for tickets sold on the trains. The arson case will probably come on tomorrow. AUCKLAND.

! April S. j Subscriptions are going to be raised at ! Helensville to institutelegal proceedings | against the Government, in order to ! obtain compensation fur the widow and ! children of the stoker killed on the KaiI i=ar:i line by the falling of a water tank. i lie is described as "having been very j steady. On Saturday, a jury was empan- ! nelled. and the inquest adjourned until | Friday, to allow the engine driver to j attend. April 9. I The Government, it is stated, has I issued instructions to prosecute Mr. I Robert Graham, under the Native Lands : Act. for occupying land at Itotorua. Mr. I »M-aham has determined not to obey the i warrant, and lias engaged Messrs. I Wfsitaker and Hesketh to defend his | claim. The Rotorua natives have cn- : ilorscd this claim by resolutions sign-jd I by twenty leading chiefs. i *Th« number of visitors from the South : has increased the interest in the autumn : race meeting', but, so far, there is little : bfttiiv.'. Jt~is stated that the validity of ' ih<; land tax will be called in question : here on various grounds by a test case, if ' a collection bo attempted. ! HOKITJKA. ! Ar.j-il &

The Town Hall was crowded Inst night, on the occasion of a public meeting convened l.y the Mayor, to urge on the <;->\vmment the desirableness of commencing the Hokitika and Greymouth railway at this end: also to consider a felejlam received from the Mayor of Ohtistchurch, on the question of the ivmovai of Parliament next session to '.''liristchurch. The first motion, m rnil-v.-avs. was unanimously carried. The second was also carried by a very large majority. IXYKRCARGJLL. April S. At a meeting of the Town Council tonight, an application was read from the f.as Engineer, asking to he reinstated. It was hacked by a memorial signed by IGO ratepayers, but was rejected. Twenty amplications f ■;■ .", • :• ;. i;ion wore received, several of them being specially eligible. The appointment to the position will be made on Thursday next. The subscriptions to the Kaitangata fund amounted to nearly LtiOO. A meeting to finally dispose of them will be held next week.