BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Evening Star, Issue 3552, 11 July 1874, Page 3

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Alexandra, July 10. There is nothing new. A number of Natives are down with prbdttoe. Major Te Wheoro has arrived here, Whore ho will permanently remain, acting for the Government. Christchurch, July 10. . At a meeting of the Board of Governors of the Canterbury College, Mr Ingles moved, “ That the Museum bo opened three hours on Christmas Day and Good Friday.” The motion was strongly opposed by the Church party, and was ultimately withdrawn. The Canterbury Chamber of Commerce have requested Mr Montgomery, to introduce a new Insolvency Bill into the Assembly, the main features of which are identical with the one thrown out last session.

Auckland, July 11, A man named Chas Dyer has been brought down from Pukiri, charged with the murder of Eliza Battersea, a woman he was living with. Jealousy is supposed to be the cause, and they were constantly quarrelling. It is alleged that on last Wednesday Dyer heat her in a brutal manner, then poured kerosene on her clothes, set fire to them, wrapoed a sack round her, carried her to the river, and threw her in. A nan named named Watson seeing her there lifted her out, with Dyer’s assistance. All the hair was burned off her head, the clothes burned down to her waist, and the whole of the upper part of the body half roasted. She ungered two days in great agony until she died. Dyer allegesthat she spilled the kerosene over herself, and it accidentally ignited. Dr Blackall, chief officer of the barque Pet, has died from fracture of the skull, caused by an accident when on board his vessel.