TELEGRAMS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 3246, 2 July 1872, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

WBtjLiNOTox, July Ist. The contract for the construction of the first eight miles of the Hutt railway has been signed. .The price, including the estimated cost of the rails and rolling stock, is just within the Parliamentary limit of £5000 per mile. At the criminal sitting of the Supreme Court to-day, the Grand Jury ignored the bill againßt Knock's, charged, with inciting to murder at Otaki. William Jones v/as sentenced to seven years' penal servitude for, forgery. Peter Fotheringhani, who pleaded guilty to a charge of robbing a dwelling-house, escaped sentence, through a technical legal point rained by the Judge. This concluded the criminal calendar. Auckland, July Ist. Miss AitkenV readings are attracting large audiences. The weather is, wet, impeding mining operations. The share market is dulL Sales of Caledonian shares have'taken place at £17 10a. Pride of Tokatea shares have fallen to 6s. Bismarck shares are ax £5 10* ; Moanataiari, at £5; and Tokatea, at £310s. . ' - I-?-:/ , , . Hoblitika, Jnly '.Ist. The AJhambra took 2000 ounces of gold to-day for Melbourne. CiotiSTCHURCH, July Ist. At the inquest on the body of Dr Pearson, of Akaroa, the jury returned a verdict that he' '" died from exposure whilßt in a state of temporary insanity." > -■ ; y