TELEGRAMS.

Inangahua Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1290, 29 August 1883, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(from ouk own correspondent. ) Ohristchitrcii, 27. About 80 men are said to be working at the 90 mile beach, most of them averaging 8/- a day. » DITNEDIN, 27. The inquest in connection with the recent shooting case at Clinton was opened there to-day before Dr Smith, Coroner. Mr Denniston watched the proceedings on behalf of the lads Roys. The principal evidence was that given by the engineer (Peter Duncan) and detective Henderson. The jury after three-quarters of an hour deliberation returned the following verdict " That James and Alexander Roy, during the night of the 28i-d August, discharged their guns recklessly whilst the train was passing through the cutting near Waimea, thereby causing the death of the deceased John Henderson." This amounted to a verdict of manslaughter against the two lads,

and they were bound over in two sureties of £250 each to appear before the R.M. on Wednesday. The lads father and Mr Harrison the local schoolmaster became the sureties. Wanganui, 27. At the Resident Magistrate's Court to-day, W. Lingard, the well-known brewer, was committed for trial at the Supreme Court on the first of eight informations for fraudulent bankruptcy, the other informations are to be proceeded with to-morrow. Auckland, 27. Edward Duncan Richards was committed for trial for malicious injury to the house of Benjamin Tanner. The European wife of Sydney Tawhanga, organiser of the Maori mission to London, was convicted to-day of smashing the windows of a diningroom when drunk. Wellington, 28. The Honorable Dr Grace, M.L.C. has refused to be elected a member of the committee to welcome Redmond the Land Leaguer. In his letter to the secretary he says : — "I do not propose to participate in any ofganised reception of Mr Redmond, because I am not a Land Leaguer, neither do I propose to join the league. I shall avail myself of the opportunity of extending to Mr Redmond privately every consideration, because he Js a representative of a minority of the people of Gre&t Britain, and of a vast majority of the people of Ireland."