TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1319, 4 October 1880, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(PER PEESS ASSOCIATION.) WELLINGTON, October 3. It is understood tliat the government have determine! to dispense with the services of Messrs. Qonyers and Lawson, and notice to this effect has been given them. October 4. A telegram just received from the Heads states that the brigantine Hannah Broomfield is wrecked on Uneonstant Point, half a mile inside the .lighthouse. It ia not known known yet how she went aahore, bnt.it is believed tha* ahe missed stays. She is fuH'cl water-. The vessel is owned by Jtlessrs. Greenfield and Stewart, timber merchants. The cap.tain is on his way to town, British office LI2OO, of which L 350 is reinsured in the Yiotoria office, and L 350. in the National office. ... Rewi telegraphs to a member of Parliament here that he knows nothing of any coal company at Mokau, and has sent a messenger to Mokau to stop any movement in that direction. The Hannah Broomfield was under the conimand of Captain Highfieldi sh e left Hobart Town on the 93.rd ult., having a cargo of timbep, palings, and,"a few tons of general cargo.. |t is. believed her cargo is insured for L6OO, but the office is not known, It was blowing a, hard N.W. galo, • • •The Magistrate dismissed the: charges against the two.constables for . alleged illtreatment of a prisoner as being" only an ' error bf judgment. He pointed out several defects: iri the police system, and hoped to see them remedied, withovit delay. Another man who ha(\ heeu looked up for last night has been removed to the Hospital • suffering from a sprained ankle.

BUNEDM.

October 4 His Honor Judge Williams, in charging the Grand Jviry, referred to the Kyeburn murder as follows—As to the prisoner Ah Lee, the oase rests almost entirely on his own confession. If you think the confession so far as he acknowledges his connection with the offence is to be believed you ,should find a true bill. ; -The question may arise hereafter' as to how far a confession is admissible as evidence at all, but with that you have; nothing to do, ;The confession of Ah Lee is not admissible in evidence! against Lee Guy. Ah ;Lee appears to have been examined before !the Magistrates when Lee Guy was icharged' with\ the:murder,' But on- e'xamiination he in effect retracted any concession he had made.' ' X presumej 'tisereifore, that Ah Lee will not appear as a .witness.■ • 1 account of the tran- \ sactictn., as not given" in the presence of Lee' Guy, is not receivable in evidence against him, 'and' the; case against Lee Guy ; has accordingly ;to be considered: apart from statements made by Ah. Lee.. His Honor said "the, other cases on the calendar called for no comment. ' In the Thomas case, : the male prisoner went iatb' the : bpx and spore that; they were .'married., in England,in 1877-' In effect,the judge told the jui-y ibtiat if they hini they "should discharge'the female prisoner. •-en ■" ■ : , Jphp ,grapd rWry.hw. returned .true bills : {Vgainst . Williams, for perjury,, and, iTofthl'Hbiiias, Johri'Duitoh, and Isabella Thomas,'- 'for * wholesale Ji larcenies; '-ati Dunedin. John Thomas pleaded The "trial of the others is proceeding. Mrs." pleads that slie was acting under coercion. " i ' ' 1 ' 1 Dutton and Thomas,; on: UpiQg on the first chargeoij larceny 4 pieced

guilty to 19 others. The Judge sentenced them both to seven years' penal servitude, saying he could see no difference between them. The Crown offered no evidence against the woman implicated in some of the thefts. CHRISTCHURCH. October 2. Four hundred and ten paid-up shares in the Colonial Insurance Company were disposed of to-day at ten shillings each. The weather cleared up this morning. The rain has greatly benefited the country districts, and the young crops are looking well. October 4. ! At a meeting of the Benevolent Association this morning, it was resolved to close the soup kitchen ; but that the association meet once a week to receive reports of urgent cases of destitution. The Supreme Court criminal sessions commenced this morning. There are 15 cases of an ordinary character. Francis Hydes, for larceny from a dwelling was sentenced to two years' imprisonment. A,deputation of railway employes interviewed the Hon. E. Richardson this morning, requesting his assistance respecting the wages paid in the workshops here, which they assert are considerably-lower than those paid in the Dunedin workshops for the same work. AUCKLAND. October 2. A testimonial, contributed to by 1120 subscribers, has been obtained for presentation to Mr. Fantham for services rendered in the suppression of pleuropneumonia. Joe was charged to-day with assault pn iVlrs. Arnold. He was committed on a charge of unlawfully wounding her and the boy Willcott ; also, of wilful murder of Henry Louis Rees. The prisoner reserved his defence. An entertainment is to be given at the Theatre Royal for the benefit of the widow of the murdered man. October 4. A little child was decoyed and stripped of its clothes in the suburbs this morning. It is supposed to be the act of some drunken woman. Arrived—New Zealand Shipping Company's ship Waikato, 90 days from London, to hand. On the 15th August she spoke the Waitangi, bound for Lyttelton. She has 18 saloon, 22 second-class, and 56 steerage passengers. The Ovalu, schooner, has arrived from Rarotonga. She reports that on the night of July 25 a severe gale was experienced in the Rarotonga Harbor. The Ovalu and the Agnes Donald were both anchored there during the night, and came together several times, causing considerable! damage to the Agnes Donald, whilst the Ovalu lost her large boat in attempting to get a hawser on shore. A subscription is being raised for Mrs. Rees, the widow of the man murdered by the Fijian. At a meeting held on Saturday to form a Seaman's Union 30 persons attended. It was decided to start one of the same nature as that at Port Chalmers. Sixteen of those present paid their subscription. Twenty-six employes on the Auckland railways have mutually agreed to leave the service, and proceed to the. Cape unless their wishes regarding the adjustment of wages is complied with. The Supreme criminal sittings opened this morning. Judge Richmond in his charge commented on the smallness of the calendar, but said there were some heavy charges. The crime of murder by the New Hebrides native occupied the. fore ground. The murderer was, he said, an utter stranger, and the cause, of the crime ;seemed to be an outburst of ferocity. Rarely was a New Zealand settler brought up for such a, crime. The prisoners charged with this offenoe were generally of a foreign or an inferior race, seamen and other visitants. Commenting on the growth of larrikinism, he said he supposed one of the principal causes was that boys were too. early apprenticed. The demand for labor was so great that they obtained high wages, and experienced less home restraint than in. England. In ohurch and school the powers fail to reach them. The only effectual means was to bring them under the, penal code. He and other Judges had resorted to this dread risk of introducing boys to associates who would destroy their chances of reformation. The subject raised points in morals, public policy, and religion that the Court would not be a proper place to discuss. NEW PLYMOUTH. October 3. The remains of a female skeleton were found in a gravel pit near Ngarei on the : Narmanby railway line. Mr,. Simpson, late manager of the National ißank, was entertained at a : dinner last night. He leaves for Wellington on Wednesday, where he assumes the position of relieving officer of the Bank.