TELEGRAPHIC

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 19 April 1880, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC

[BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.] [PBB J?BESB ASSOCIATION.] Nelson, April 16. Regarding the fracas outside the Club last,e,veniug, the po'icebave summoned Percy A-darus, ljahgley : Adams, Bunny, and Teschemaker, for creating a breach Vf6He"p'eaceT~~*~" A public meeting is to be held to« night to consider the late charge brought against *Mrr;Acfon Adams. ■ * In the- Resident Magistrate's! Court W. Carter Webb, late local manager of the New Zealand Insurance Company, was charged with embezzling £6 17s belonging to his employers. After some evidence the accused admitted the charge and was sentenced to six months im» prisonment, ; t ' DiWEDifl. Tbe trial of Butler for the murder of James Dewar. was resumed at the Su« preme Court today. A number of witnesses were examined, but the evidence was much the same as that previously given. > The prisoner complained that the prosecution had been conducted treacher* offsly and vindictively and that evidence had been given of blood spots on his clothes, of which he had not previously been informed. The ease for the Crown was finished, and the prisoner, who said he would call no witnesses, will enter on his defence to-morrow. The total insurances,, affected through Dunedin offices on the Oalypso if £56 356,