TELEGRAPHIC. [BY ELCTRIC TELEGRAPH.]

Inangahua Times, Volume V, Issue 59, 22 July 1878, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC. [BY ELCTRIC TELEGRAPH. ]

■ [PBtt I"RRSB AH9OCIAT(ON] CnmsTOHUßcn July 18 In tho Suprotns Court yoatorday, Chapman a woolsorter, suod Sir Crncroft Wilson for £1000, for malicious prosecution, Some time ago Wilson laid uu in* formation against Chapman, for stealing wool, and was committed for trial but, on coming boforo tbe Supremo Court was nrquittoi, In tho present ouso tho jury returned a verdict for plaintiff, for £160 and costs. Equirs Iloff .was charged at Oxford in tho Magistrate's Court yesterday, with murdering his wife on July Bth, and' was committed for trial. His demeanour in in Court was vory quiet and showed vory httlo disposition to oross«oxamino wit* nesses. At various points of evidence ho nodded his nssont to tho oorrJotnoss of tostimony, whon his wifo was stntod to hnvo boon kind to him he gave a nogativo shnko of his bond and smiled in n oynical manner, whon medical ovidonco was given in which it was stntod that tho wounds which causoJ death woro administered by oithor a shingling hammer claws or toma« hawk, ho pointed to tho head of tho lattor from which tho handlo hnd been burnt as tho instrument with which tho dcod hnd boon committed. Hoff nov«r seomod fully toroaliso his position. JIo rosorvod his statcmont of tho affair till brought boforo tho Supromo Court. Auckland, July 20. Tho sohoonor Nolly has arrived from tho Friendly Islands. She brings Fnpio Samaba, Louis Oliver, W. Gihson, Jnmcs Hill, John Morgan, Edward Clovoly nod John M'Gowan, tho romaining survivors of tho shipwrecked barquo Canr and tho following crow of tho barquo Lcsta.also wrockod :— Goorgo Ridd, Hugh M*lntosh W. Carter, Jamos Patterson, Edward Edward M'Lood. M'Gowau &ny& tho

following aouount of his suflforings on the Kan— l landed on the Island on tho 16th May. with tho chief officer and hit party, but was suffering from fever dysontry and aguo, and had to bo left behind. I wandorod about tho island by myiolf, baying nothing to oat but grass, loaves and shrubs, I could not get water anywhero and had to do without it for eight days. Ono ovening on tho fourth day of my sojourn on tho island, I «aw Jamieson, tho second mato, on top of tho island. Ho was on one sido of a deop gully and I was on the bthor and conld not got ovor to him. He called out that ho was tirod and was going tolio thoro all night. 1 also lay down on tho spot nnd whon I woko next morning I ooooyed to him but got no response. I did not Bco him again and I have no doubt bo is dsad. Afior that time I wandered about half naked with scarooly anything to ont, slcoping every night in the open air end became very woak. On tho 90th I heard ooooya in the- distance and I ropliod to them, at the samo time going in that direction. After somo timo j^orsons camo up to mo whom I found to bo two natives in searoh of Jamioson and myself. They took mo in a citnoe to tho Island of Tapui and I lived in ono of tho native houses two days. M'Gowan thon describes his subsequent kind trcatmont by Mr Watkins, missionary, and King Georgo of Tonga to whom tho crow presented a testimonial. Wellington, 20. Tha City of New York, with tho London mail of tho 20th June, loft 'Frisco for Auckland on tho Bth instnnt,