TELEGRAMS.

Inangahua Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1219, 12 January 1883, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(from our own correspondent. )

Christchurch 10.

Pour men and six boys were brought before the court to-day for rowdy conduct on New Year's morning. They went about firing guns and smashing windows. The police said they did not wish to interfere with the people keeping up the new year, but they thought defendants had gone a little too far. The Bench thought so too, and fined them 10s each, with the whole of the damage which amounted to several pounds, in default of payment they will suffer four days' imprisonment. A publican of Lyttelton was fined £5 to-day for supplying a man with liquor against whom a prohibition order had been issued, despite the fact that the man said he had sneaked in on the quiet in the absence of the landlord in hopes of getting a drink and that the landlord had repeatedly refused to supply him, but in this instance the barman was a stranger who had only been in the place a few weeks and did not know the man by sight. DUNEDIN, 10. All arrangments connected with the formation of the N.Z Electric Light Company are completed. The directors have purchased the exclusive right to use in New Zealand the patent of the Australasian Electric Li^ht Co., represented by Sir Julius Vogel. The Company is now prepared to make contracts etc. It is not intended to offer shares to the public until the : business is somewhat established..

Sir J. Vogel leaves Dunedin to morrow morning by train for Invercargill, and leaves the Bluff for Melbourne on Friday.

Chinese diggers have found one lOoz. and one 18oz. nuggets, but refuse to disclose the locality in which they were discovered.

Wellington, 11.

Great preparations are being made forfjfche reception of Sir Wm. Jervois, who is to arrive here on the 18th.

Auckland, 11.

Mrs Hamilton and Priestly have been committed for trial on the charge of murdering Mr Hamilton.

Napier, 10

A man named Petersen, employed by Mr Saunders on the Matanau bridge contract was killed to-day. This is the 3rd fatal accident besides several minor casualties on this bridge.

A Scandinavian woman living at Norsewood, was robbed and violently assaulted. last night when on her way home from selling her garden produce, Her assailant had his face concealed in a red handkerchief. There is as yet no clue to his identity.

Oajiartj, 11,

An inquest was held yesterday at Otepoto on the body of Arthur Bird, who fell off the express train the previous day. The verdict was one of accidental death. The boy. it is said, was in the aet of throwing off the mail bag, and slipped and fell between the carriages. The engine of the last train broke down in the Otepoto tunnel last night, and was delayed over three hours.

Dunedin, 11.

In the Massey case, Mr Stout prosecutes and Mr Fitchett defends. Mr and Mrs Massey have been charged jointly with stealing waterworks debentures. Mr Stout opened the case at great length. He said that a number of water-works bonds were prepared in duplicate for exchange and handed to Mr Massey, who was then town clerk, and who retained them. After Mr Massey left the Corporation employ, die books referring to the water- works debentures could not be found, and when he was written to he replied that he had kept no books. After his arrest, this book was found at his house. The duplicate bonds were sold by Mrs Massey in Melbourne and to show that her husband was aware of her action, counsel read a memorandum of sale results taken from Massey's pocket-book, found on him when arrested. The case for the prosecution was this : Massey obtained the bonds ready for exchange: that he left the town clerk's office without delivering them up to Mr Gibson and that these bonds which were intended for exchange were afterwards sold in Melbourne by Mrs Massey, with his knowledge, and that he received the reward for her sale. The case is exciting great interest here.