BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Evening Star, Volume 4245, Issue 4245, 4 October 1876, Page 3

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Napier, October 3. A telegram from Archdeacon Harper was read at the Synod to-day, declining the Bishopric of Waiapu. A resolution was passed, appointing a committee to draw up a memorial, praying him to reconsider his decision. Christchurch, October 3. Alice Sheehan was arraigned this morning for the wilful murder of her infant. r The evidence disclosed that she drowned the deceased in August last, that she drowned another of her children in 1875, and smothered another in 1874, In all the cases the infanticide took place a short time after confinement. The jury retired at four o’clock, and returned into Court at a quarter to seven, with a verdict of “ not guilty,” on the ground of insanity. The Judge ordered her to be kept in strict custody in the Lunatic Asylum during the pleasure of the Colonial Secretary. James Thomson, for forgery and uttering, was sentenced to one year’s imprisonment. Wellington, October 4, Mr G. Barton, the lawyer, was late yesterday in attending Supreme Court, and was spoken to about it by the Chief Justice. This morning the Chief Justice

said a letter from a solicitors office, Brandon street (the locality of Messrs Barlow and Fitzherbert’s office), complaining about the Judge’s hostility to a certain practitioner iu the town, and intimating that the matter would be brought under the consideration of the Government had been delivered at the Court. His Honor added that the person who delivered the letter to the Registrar would be found out, and the matter brought under notice for contempt of Court.

Auckland, October 4. The brig Vision has arrived from a South Sea cruise. She has extended the Auckland trade to the Marshall’s Group, ten degrees north of the Equator, besides establishing agencies at the different islands. The Prince of Wales Theatre has been converted into a produce warehouse, the Theatre Royal having been leased by Mr De Lias. ' (From our own Correspondent) HAUGHTON’S CASE. Wellington, October 4. The jury acquitted Haughton on all the counts after retiring for three hours.

Napier, October 3. The nomination of Archdeacon Harper, of Timaru, for the Bishopric of Waipn has given universal satisfaction here, and it is believed that if he accepts it it will end the present clerical troubles.

Henare Tomoana, it is alleged, has written a letter to the heads of Natives asking their assistance in the event of attempts beingmade by the law officers to remove him from Omaranui lands.