BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Evening Star, Issue 3801, 30 April 1875, Page 3

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Wellington, April 29. Ihe French war steamer Infernel, which arrived from Sydney via Picton this morning, is a corvette of 2,000 tons measurement and 400-horse power. She has a turret where she cirries a five-ton breach-loading rifle gun, throwing a conical ball of 4001b weight. She also has eight broadside muzzle-loaders. Her crew consists of 210 men. She will remain here five days, then proceeds to Auckland, and thence to the islands of the Pacific,

Auckland, April 29. Burke, ex-Captain Fire Brigade, was discharged at the Police Court to-day. The last plate on the Auckland and Mercer Railway was laid to day.

Waimate, April 29. A man named Thomas Davis, an old settler here, was arrested last night, charged with an attempt poison his wife. He was sent to Timaru (thirty miles) to-day for examination, as there was no magistrate in the district and the only justice of the peace is at present away.

Christchurch, April 30. The salmon ova arrived, and was conveyed to the ponds yesterday afternoon and the boxes opened, when the ova was found to be in a very unsatisfactory state. It is not expected that a single fish will be hatched out of the whole 20,000 ova.

The international rifle match yesterday between Paton and Cameron, representing Scotland, and Pox and Chapman, England, resulted in a victory for the former by fourteen points. The Governor leaves for Dunedin on Tuesday next, will go by train to Raugitata, thence by special coach to Timaru, doing the remainder of the distance probably by steamer. {From our own Correspondent.) ~ Queens . own, April 30. f he proceedings against Messrs Powell, for corrupt perjury, lasted all day. Ihe Magistrates Messrs Boyes, Warren, and Robertson—said no defence was required.’ No charge of wilfully or corruptedly swvarhv had been proved. They quite acknowledged that the property was Barry’s. The case was dismissed without a stain upon the character of the accused. _ . , Auckland, April 29. . During the voyage of the Fernglen, just arrived, the ship ran entirely out of tobacco a month before her arrival. When it first became scarce the price rose to Is per plug, and in a few days it went up to 5s per plug. The last few plugs sold at the high figure of 20s each. Weelcs before the ordinary quotation was Id. Raw coffee and spun yarn was a favorite substitute, and some tea and brown paper were found not to go badly; but the preference was very generally given to hay, with a flavoring of cayenne pepper. Yesterday the schooner Echo was boarded by some of the more desperate, and all her crew’s tobacco was forcibly abstracted. The following are the particulars of the tragical death of M'Cabe, formerly a reporter and actor, A little before ten o’clock in the forenoon a passenger named Graham, on the wliarf, said a roan jumped or fell from the cliff near the bottom of Hobson street. He called on Sergeant Martin and told b in. r J hat ofheer repaired to the spot, and at the foot of the cuff, on the beach, found the mutilated body of M Cabe. The latter was alive and apparently sensible, but could answer no questions. Constable Tiercy procured an express, in which the sufferer was driven to the Hospital, where his injuries were examined by the house surgeon, and a fracture of the left thi-di discovered, as well as a compound frncturoof the right dhow joint. He is also believed from appeal ances to have sustained severe internal injuries. He lingered till eleven o’clock Latterly be appears to have given way to intemperate habits, which, totogether with a predisposition in that direction developed insanity. He . was received into the asylum in September last ; recovered and was liberated, but recommitted within a short tune. A few weeks ago he was again sufficiently well to be let loose. Mrs M'Cabe went

to San Francisco by the Cyphrenes. M'Cabe intended to follow her as soon as he could procure funds. Both have friends well-to-do in this city. M'Cabe has been staying during the last few weeks at the Governor Browne Hotel. For some days lately he evinced signs of his old mania, and last night procured a revolver and spoke^about shooting one of the boarders. He was intoxicated at the time, and, Cunningham, the boarder, got him to bed quietly. At about two o’clock this morning he was heard to shout out that it was he who had struck the matches. The remark was supposed to be in allusion to an attempt to set the place on fire. He got up and walked about, but was put to bed again and -went to sleep. He was seen going down Hobson street, in the direction of the sea. This was only half-an-hour before he was discovered g r 2*niug and bleeding at the base of the cliff. There seems to be a mania amon (r the Grammar School boys for bolting. Two°more Sydne are BU PP osed to have gone to