SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

Thames Advertiser, Volume VIII, Issue 2199, 15 November 1875, Page 3

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

(FBOJI OTJE OW COBBEBPONDENTB,)

AtfCKLAKD, Saturday.

Denis Wright, formerly a captain k the. Army, was to-day sentenced, to sisT months, for three charges of obtaining goods by false pretences. The same man wa'sarrestedatWellrogtonforforgery seven months ago, and acquitted,. It was said at the time that afriend at Court procured his acquittal. Hales, baker, at Wangarei, was found dead on the road near the settlement on Thursday. He had fallen from his horse and broken his neck.

Mr H. W. Farnall announces himself for Rodney as a supporter of Sir George Grey. '..■•.':,. Richard Truman; of Coromandel, was sent to the lunatic Asylum to-day. ■ Ben Turner, writes to the Star in defence- of Sir George Grey against detractors, and gives a variety of recollections. .' .-■ ■'•.'

Sailed: "•' Emu,' for Levuka, via Taranaki.—The -'Vasco.'.-de Gama' is altered to sail for San Francisco on the 22nd. ■■■' ""■;

: Hugh Tumor, settler, of Mercer, was brought in and committed.as a;lunatic. He had given Constable Limmer twenty hours'pursuit before being caught. Sharemarket,—Caledonian: Sales, 85s; sellers, 90s. Cure: Sellers, 12s. Bed Queen: Sales, 2s 3d; sellers, 2s 3d.