LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Wellington Independent, Volume XXVI, Issue 3355, 25 November 1871, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

* [PEE GREVILIe's TEI/. CO., BEITTEE'S AGENTS.] Lyttelton, Friday. Arrived — Keera and Samson from Dunedin. They sail for "Wellington to-morrow. Christchurch Friday. Produce market — Wheat, 3s lOd to 4s 3d. Flour is unchanged and stocks are heavy. Oats, 2s Gd to 3s. No sales of barley are reported. Butter is plentiful at l|d to sd. Hams and bacon are in better request at 7cl to 7£d. Cheese continues to be a drug at 3d to 3£d. Port Chalmers, Friday. Arrived, early, Maori, from North. Sailed, afternoon, Hydea, for Newcastle ; Venus, brig, for Lyttelton, with part of original cargo of sugar from Mauritius ; 1.30 p.m., Phcebe, for Lyttelton. Dunedin, Friday. The produce markets is firm and quiet Flour, reliable brands, £13. Wheat is becoming scarce, and there are few transactions. Prime lots are worth os. Oats are dull at Is lOd to 2s. Wanganui, Friday. Cattle market — Grown steers, £3 to £3 10s ; heifers, £2 to £2 10s. Two and three-year-old steers, 40s to oOs ; yearlings, 20s. Fat sheep are in good demand, and prices are ruliDg high. Horses— Good draught, £30 to £40; medium, £12 to £20; roadsters, £12 to £15. Nelson, Friday. The Criminal Sessions of the Supreme Court closed yesterday. There were six cases. PI. N. Firth, innkeeper at Canvasstown, Marlborough, accused of felonious assault with firearms, having fired a gun ut a violent digger, named Quinlan, who was trying to batter in his door with stones, was found not guilty. David Henderson Murdoch was charged with the same offence, but was tried separately. Firth gave evidence admitting ho had fired the gun, and that Murdoch had struck Quinlan. The jury returned a verdict of guilty, but that the prisoner was justified in what he did. The Judge held this to be a verdict of not guilty. Quinlau was then charged with escaping . from custody while serving a sentence passed by the magistrate at Westport. Exception was taken by his counsel, that the convicting magistrate had acted ultra vires in having passed a sentence of three months' imprisonment for an offence punishable only by two months imprisonment. Theobjection wassustained, and Quinlan acquitted. J. Homan, a lad in the Post-office, Havelock, charged with opening letters and inserting in them slips containing indecent expressions, was found guilty, and received a sentence of si x months. James Cook, horse-stealing, Marlborougb, was convicted, and sentenced to three years. William Thompson, charged with having set fire to Messrs Gibson Brothers' wool shed, Kaikoura, was acquitted. In charging the Grand Jury, his Honor Mr Justice Richmond said that, with regard to the system of grand juries, he did not mean to say that it could not be advantageously modified so as to bring the judges into more intimate relations with the whole common jury panel, and so preserving the real advantages derivable from the institution ; but he hoped the law would never be altered so as to prevent the Court meeting the principal men of the community face to face. Bluff, Friday. The Alhambra arrived at Bluff harbor this morning at 5 a.m , and sails for Dunedin to-night. Passengers — For Dunedin : Miss Lubocki, Mrs Collins, Master Collins, Mrs Leary and child, Mr and Mrs Menzieshaw, Mr Watson, Captain Olevery. For Lyttelton — Mr and Mrs Duncan. For Wellington — Mr Robinson, For Nelson— Mrs and Master Home. MiiLßomiNE, November 18. In Parliament there have been lengthy discussions on the railway guages. A measure for the protection of telegraphic messages from piracy is before the House, and will probably pass. The Houses are expected to be prorogued in a few days. A banquet to the Ministry took place in the Town Hall. Six hundred were present. The ivsult of the inquiry into the wreck of the Loch Leven is an opinion

that there was neglect of navigation on the part of the captain. The certificates have been returned to the officers. A man, named Chute, murdered his wife near Benalla. Two swagsmen saw the deed without interfering. The supposed cause is jealousy. Chute escaped, but was subsequently arrested. The death of Bishop Patteson was improved in all the Churches. The trial of Geraryand his wife, for the murder of Woodhouse at Collac, in 1854, is proceeding. Hobart Town, Nov. 18. Dr Brownell is dead. The Treasurer has announced his intention to introduce a bill to reduce the salary and allowances of the future Governor. Lyster's Opera Troupe have opened at the theatre. Sydney, Nov. 18. Bennett is acquitted of the charge of flogging a seaman. Bailey, a Roman Catholic priest, has been couvicted of illegally marrying minors, and sentenced to six months' imprisonment and a fine of £50. The Customs revenue for the month shows an increase of a thousand. The Governor, in opening Parliament, expressed his belief that the colony had entered on a period of great prosperity. The Nebraska is docked, and will not proceed to Melbourne. Adelaide, Nov. 18. An overland mail bag being lost, has caused great inconvenience. There are conflicting statements in the accounts of tlie crops. Little is doing in wheat. A proposal has been introduced to pay members of Parliament £2 per day for the session of eighty days, and free transit by rail and coach.