TELEGRAMS.

Colonist, Volume XXX, Issue 5023, 5 October 1887, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

(Per United Phsb Association.) A MURDEB IN CANTERBURY. CHEISTCHUECH, October 4. A murder wu committed at Little Biver, on th« verandah of Lake Forsyth Arms Hotel. Three Russian Finns working at Mr Coop's ■awmill went to the hotel about nine o'clock. The men oame in and stood then while a eoagwa* being sang, and then all threw weat iatothe dining-room, where they, had some rcfreihmenti by themselves. Two of the ■ion had wordi—the men'i name* were Matte Jphansen,- Nile Jacobion, and Andrew Heyman. After a time, however, the quarrel seemed to ceaie, Ocorge Bobinioo (half-caste) having gone in to pacify them. They went out together at ten minutes to ten by the the front door on to the verandah. A short time afterwards a man named Leon, on going out, saw a man lying on the verandah as he thought dead drunk, and the big Finn (Jaoobson) .standing ; -jr shtxt distance off ready for, going away. Leon spoke to him, saying it was not right for him to leave his mate there drunk. The Finn replied in his own tongue, as Leon understood him to mean, to the effect that hii mate was all right where he was. Leon then %ent in, bat shortly! after went out again with a man named Beay and a lad named Hitchens. Hitchens lit a match and looked at the supposed drunken man, and holding it to his facs notwe^ifs^ai ghastly white. 'Then they noticed blood on his clothes. Looking further they found the clothes in places were saturated with blood from dreadful stabs, one of which appeared to be right in the heart and the. other in the entrails just below the navAk They gave the alarm, and it was 'aficentained that {the man was dead. George Bebinsoa saddled hie hone and started i* pursuit of the big Finn, and overtook^pa, some 200 yards from the hotel, and hejgj&nt up to him with a bottle saying, " M»te, have a drink," threw the man quickly, being afraid of his knife, and bound him with a strap. On the others coming up he was taken to the lock-up. George. Bobinson meanwhile .waf,, after the other Finn, whom he found between Jobbin's store and Coojp'i mill. This jnau came back quietly alao, and they were ■both locked up. Nothing was found on them but somo matches add tobacco. There was a little knife quite incipable of giving the states found on the smaller man, and there was aj slight wound on the right hand of the bi«g«r man, but this might have been caused by hi* falling on- the ground. It was at once decided to communicate with Akaroa. The telegrapher called Akaroa, but without avail, and. then there was a difficulty in getting horses. It was getting on for thveo a.m when young Hitchens got away with news, and he reached Akaroa between six and seven a.m, and at once informed the police, who sent Constable Croekatt off to the Hirer. The body was left where it was till the arrival of the constable. The inquest will be held at noon to-morrow. WELLINGTON, October 4. The weather continues cold and wet. : The Education Board to-day summarily dismissed John O'Brien, master of the Kuitoka school, with whom the Committee had a dispute. O'Bribn is believed to have left the district, GREYMOTJTH, , October 4. Malachi Taylor, of Brunnertqn, brewer, was to-day fined £10 and costs for a breach of-.the sixth section of the Beer Act, 1880. The Harbor Board have molved to offer the proprietor of the tug Westland £8500 for her. ■■■-■■■■ ::. ■■. ; , ■" ' , . DUNEDIN, October 4. Charles Julian, a member of the Permanent Artillery, died at Otago Heads suddenly this morning, from what cause is not known. He had been married only a few weeks. The District High School at Port Chalmers have prepared an address to Sir Robert Stout regretting his defeat, and asking him for the sake of young New Zealand to recomider his decision not to allow himself to be returned for another constituency. CRUELTY TO A CHILD. A serious ease of child beating was beard at the Police Court to-day, Augasta Margaret Powell being charged with wounding, assaulting, and ill-treating Violet Powell. A neighbor deposed to being called in on three separate occasions^ when the child was in .fits. She was shown marks on the body, which were eaid to be the results of falling. A boy, aged fourteen, said that while looking through the fence he saw the child being thrashed with a strap, and when she fell down she was thrashed to make her get up. Dr Martin said that be had first seen the child on the 10th September, and was informed that it had a fit the day before, but was then better. There was a small mark on its nose said to have been caused by a fall when in a fit. Witness considered that was quite possible, and as the obild was better no further treatment was required. On Saturday he was called again, and observed blue and black marks on the child's face.. On asking the cause he was told it was a fall the child had had the day before. Seeing bruises on the other side of the face be doubted that statement. There were black marks all over the ohild'a body, more csper oially on the left side alone, might account for the" fits. The arm might have been broken by a fall against some h«d substance, but for this injury there was a* grievous bodily harm. Tne child was well nourished and fed. Mr Denniston for the defence contended that the only " grievous bodily harm" sustained by the obild was the frasture of the arm, arid there was no evidence to show that this was caused by the accused; nor to show any direct violence on her part; nor to show that she bad as? ill will towards the child, or anydcure to do it an injury. She openly called in neighbors, and voluntarily stripped the child for their inspection. A reprimand or fine would meet the case. The Bench found that the obild had been very grossly treated, and would fine the aeeuiei £5, and order, her ta find sureties, herself in £300 aui another in the same bubo, for her good copduct for six months. - Inspector Weldon applied for costs, which were granted.