BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Evening Star, Issue 3700, 31 December 1874, Page 2

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Wellington, December 30. ihere are only four cases at the Criminal Sittings on Monday—one of assault, two of obtammg money under false pretences, and one or petty larceny. m. . : , Auckland, December 30. Lhe whaler James Arnold has arrived at the Bay of Islands with-263 barrels of sperm oil, the produce of a seven months’ cruise. She reports boarding a water-logged ship on the 6th December last, in latitude 25 N., longitude 30 -I- Th ® 8 “ l P was 998 tons register, and laden with yellow pine timber. Owing to the fact that her stern was all smashed away, it was impossible to decipher her name. The crew had evidently abandoned the vessel some time before, as all the boats were missing. The uessel was apparently an English one. Jt is reported that the Australian Steam Navigation Company will carry on the San JJ rancisco service six months longer. The Cyphrenes sailed at one o’clock. Mr Andrew goes as mail agent. Madame Goddard was a passenger. Grahamstown, December 31. Thirty diggers, with swags, have left for Onmemun, with the intention of waiting on the spot until the opening is proclaimed. Samples of coal were shown in town to-day. I hey are said to" be from a seam on the land between Hikutaia and Ohinemuri. • Napier, December 30. ine affairs of Stuart and Co. are being settled satisfactorily. A. T. Stuart and Co., of Wellington, have arranged with the creditors to take over the estate, and to. pay 17s 6d in the pound by instalments at three, six, nine, and twelve months, with interest. The assent of xhe requisite number of creditors has been obtained. Business will be carried on as usual. rm. * ,• J 9 HE . IBTC ’? nECH > December 30. The Accbmatisation Society have 1 decided to request the Superintendent to remove the protection from bouse sparrows, which have become a nuisance in the Province, and to sanction the issue of licenses for fishing for trout m the river Avon. {From our ovm Correspondent.) t> i£ v- . Auckland, December 30. Pearl-fishing at the South Sea Mauds is attracting grater attention here. Recently the JByno was despatched under the directions of Mr Stemdale, and now a company is in process of formation to fit out the schooner Jessie Henderson, recently from Dunedin, for the trade. The last pearl-fishing expedition was a decided failure, the schooner ultimately conveymg as freight large pigs, thereby placing not P 6 ™ swine but swine before pearls. ine Harbor Board has received L 7.000. the first instalment of the L 50.000 dock loan being floated at Sydney. There are good prospects ot the whole loan being floated at par. whieh is the minimnm. The Cyphrenes took only six New Zealand i passengers and a small cargo. ! £ Buildings Commissioners have nxed the site of the new hospital, but not increased the asylum accommodation. . A C* B6 suspected child killing is occupy, mg the attention of the police. A German named Albert Gravenity eloped with the wife of a seaman named Wilkinson from the Bay of Islands. They came to Auckland and lived in a low lane of the city, the woman’s father re. • siding m Lance house. Last May Mrs Wilkin, son bore a child, which Gravenity treated with shocking brutality, while the unhappy partner j. ius guilt looked on either with passive indifference or fear. The woman’s father also does not seem to have had courage to prevent the monster s cruelty. In October Gravenity was charged at the Police Court with ill-usage of the child, and subjected to two months’ im. pnsomnent. His term expired a few days since, when he returned to the home of his paramour, who is still living with her father in a wretched habitation in the purlieus of Chaneery hme. This morning the child died in the mother s arms under peculiar and very suspicious circumstances. The police are making every inquiry and probably an inquest will be held to-morrow, when revolting disclosures are expected. Gravenity was under great obligations to the husband of the woman he eloped with. CROMWELL RACES. (From our oim Correspondent.) Cromwell, December 31. x esterday afternoon the weather held good and was very enjoyable. The meeting, on the whole, has been most successful as regards weather, entries, and honest running. The following are the results of the second day’s racing : Trotting Race. easi)y mpy ’ wHch Btarted at BCr atch, won Kathleen, 7st lOlbs ..." *" jg Pour others ran. It was a good nice. BraBfanpJp^ lß m „ ft# straight by two lengths, through CXCellent conditioa pulled her to- ~ Rewards’ Purse, of L4O. eaady 8 Mountam Hate Port Philip v 41., Coi [solation Stakes, of L2O. Kathleen bekt the Maid. ‘ A bad life J&efc&'Ffd —a Sbatiof debtf