SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1005, 9 July 1879, Page 2

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

0 (from our own correspondents.) DTJNEDIN. July 9. At the City Court to-day, Jonathan Richardson was committed for trial for robbery and assault. He bailed the prosecutor up on the North East Yalley road at one o'clock yesterday morning and demanded his money or his life. The prosecutor handed over his money, and subsequently gave information to the police. Andrew Murray, manager for Kirkpatrick, Glendining and Co., is charged with committing a rape on his daughter, aged twelve. The prisoner is a widower. The prosecutrix swore positively to the commission of the offence by prisoner, who also attempted to assault her companion. Through Mr. Macassey's retirement, Mr. Stewart's chance is considered to be very good. Some very intemperate language was used at the Catholic meeting last night. At the Supreme Court, Charles Lewis was sentenced to -two years' for cattle stealing. Charles Mackay, who came out by the Otago three weeks ago, committed suicide by taking laudanum yesterday. He had been a member of a firm of jewellers who had been ruined by the Glasgow Bank failure, by which they lost L 68,000.

CHRISTCHURCH. July 9. "W. H. Strange is charged with having violently assaulted his child, two years old, and is remanded till Monday. A woman has been sent to gaol for 12 months with hard labor, for using obscene language.