BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Evening Star, Issue 4134, 27 May 1876, Page 2

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Auckland, May 25. It is stated that immediately on the ro. Judge Gillies, the Superintendent will take action in the Supreme Court relative to the alleged unlawful Native land purchases.

Mav °7 The brig Sarah, from Melbourne, via Wellington, lor Wangaroa, in ballast, went ashore on a reef near Whangarari. itwai blowing a heavy gale off ( ape Brett, and. being unable to get the vessel off the land, the captain had both anchors dropped, when the port chain broke and the vessel commenced drifting ashore. A boat was safely launched, and all the crew got ashore. The vessel then drifted right 0.-er the reef smashing in her bottom, and was cast high week beadl ' where slle uow lies a complete Christchurch, May 2C. VVm. Townsheud, brother to Dr. Towns* hend, has been committed for trial for manslaughter, under the following circumstances :—He attended a confinement in his brother’s name, and, in the absence of other instruments, he used a largo pair of pointed scissors to assist delivery. The child was bom with two severe cuts on the forehead \ and a p 'st mortem examination showed that the wound penetrated the skull and brain. The child lived thirty-six hours. Medical witnesses at the inquest asserted that, judging from the evidence of the nurse aud tha fact of the child being bom alive, no penetrating instruments of any kind were required, and that death resulted from tha ‘ wounds inflicted by the scissors. Steps are being taken for establishing a skating rink. Wellington May 27, ihe Government have effected arrangemeats with the N.Z. .Shipping Company, by which that company will have the conveyance of immigrants to this Colony during the ensuing year. The terms of the agreement are understood to be very favorable ter the Colony, and at a lower rate than previous arrangements. {From our own Correspondent,) „ . Napier, May 2G. The Natives have called another meeting to be held next week to discuss, among other things, what action Karaitiana, their ~ member, is to take in the General Assembly. This morning the inmates of the Clarendon Hotel where alarmed by. the shrieks of a vaut girl, who found lying on the sofa in the parlor covered up, attired with hat and boots, what she supposed was the body of a man cold and inanimate. The landlord on carefully taking off the covering found it to be a fat sheep which had been stoleu from Hague’s butcher’s shop, and plac'd thare by some practical jokers.