TELEGRAMS.

Inangahua Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1218, 10 January 1883, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(FKOMOUK OWN COBKESPOB'NDENT.)

DUNEDIN, 8.

It is stated that the Catholic vote ■will not be given to Mr Donnelly (who is a Catholic) in the Peninsula election, on account of his views on education, but that a fresh candidate will be brought forward by the body.

Sir Julius and Lady Yogel leave Dunedin for Melbourne on Thursday, and Melbourne for England on 7th of February.

ASHBTJRTON, 8.

A man named Robert Fuller, an inmate of the Old Man's Home, was arrested here to-day, on a charge of criminally assaulting a little girl 14 years old.

Timaru, 8,

The skeleton of a man, about sft. 6in. in height, was found on the sea beach yesterday, about 6 miles north of Timaru. The only clothing on it was a white woollen stocking. It is supposed to be the remains of one of the three men who lost then. 1 lives at the time of the wrecks on the 14th May last, and whose bodies were never recovered,

A movement is on foot at Geraldine to start a woollen factory, and at a largely attended meeting held on Friday evening, an influential committee was appointed to obtain the necessary information, and to report at an early date.

Auckland, 9

.The Police Court wUs crowded with people yesterday to hear the charge of murder against Thomas Priestly and Marian Robertson Hamilton. In his opening address, the Crown Prosecutor said the medical evidence would prove that a careful examination of Hamilton's skull was made by Drs. Walker and Dawsori, when it was seen that deceased could not by any possibility have caused the injury to his skull in the manner described by Mrs Hamilton, viz., through falling against an iron beadstead. The doctors were confident from what they saw that the wound was of such a character that it was quite impossible in any human probability that it could have been caused in the manner asserted by Mrs Hamilton. There was, therefore, the doctor's statement on the one hand, and Mrs Hamilton's version of the affair on the other. The doctors were also prepared to go further and say that from the nature of the wounds they would swear unhesitatingly that after it had been received the man could not have risen up again, as the whole frame of the skull had been shattered by it. There were two witnesses Mrs Home and Mr Lees, who would state that on the 16th December, Priestly came to them and implored them to state he had been at their house on the night of the occurrence. Lees, however, declined to do anything of the sort.

Wellington, 9,

A meeting of the Executive Council was held to-day, at Sir James Prendergast's chambers. The Colonial Secretary, Minister of Public Works and Minister of Justice were present, the business was mainly of a routine character.