BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Evening Star, Issue 4121, 12 May 1876, Page 3

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Naw Plymouth, May 11. At a meeting of the shareholders of the Titanic Steel Company, Mr Matheson suggested that Mr Smyth should be sent to Wellington to attend the meeting there, and moved that a thoroughly skilled and practical man, accustomed to blast furnaces, be brought without delay from Europe to blow in the furnace, and to make a thorough trial; meanwhile, that all expenditure be reduced to the lowest possible Emit. Several present urged that steps be taken to push a trial as quickly as possible, and if not, to sell tho works for what the plant would fetch. The resolution was carried.

HOKITIKA. A man named John Russell, about sixty years old, was found dead in his hut at the Kanieri on Saturday evening. The body was lying in the fireplace with the clothes burned off and the shoulders roasted through. At the inquest to-day the medical evidence showed the cause of death to be atrophy of the heart.

(From our own Correspondents) Napier, May 12. An extraordinary case of assault was heard at the Police Court to-day, in which Sub-Inspector Carlyon, of the Armed Constabulary, figured as plaintiff and a Fergeant Jones, of the same force, was defendant. The evidence showed that Jones kept a female, a Mrs Brett, at Tarawera, and the fallant Inspector came to her house, found ones there, and ordered him away. The latter refusing to go a scuffle ensued. Jones was. pushed out and afterwards placed under arrest by Garlyon for striking lm officer. The woman asserts she sent for the Captain as he owed her some mony for the keep of a half-caste girl with whom he lived. The Magistrate dismissed the case, and Jones intends taking action against Captain Carlyon for false imprisonment. Oamaru, May 11. Oaraaru is to be lit up by gas on Saturday. ] There will be several illuminations. At present there are about 100 consumers. All the tickets for the two De Murska concerts are sold, and people are getting anxious to know when she comes. The inquest on the man Smith, who dropped down dead, resulted in a verdict of " Died through a number of diseases brought on by heavy drinking." Arrived.—Matau, at 2.30 p.m. Arrow, May 12. The Marlborough claim. Cross Reef, Macetown, crushed five tons of stone and got 250z. lOdwt. from the tables. The blankets were not cleaned. The result is considered a great success.