The Globe WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1875. TELEGRAMS.

Globe, Volume III, Issue 204, 3 February 1875, Page 2

The Globe WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1875. TELEGRAMS.

(Per Anglo-Australian Press TelegraphAgency.') Auckland, February 2.

A man named Edward Patterson baa been arrested on a charge of rape on a little girl named Nellie Howe, at Otahnhu Wellington, February 2. Efforts are being made to resuscitate the Chamber of Commerce. The principal business men of the city have signed their names as subscribers, and also many not engaged in mercantile pursuits, THIS DATS TELEGBAMS. Auckland, Feb. 3. All the female servants who arrived per Inverene were engaged within twelve hours after landing. The South British Insurance Company lost £3OOO, and the New Zealand £IOOO, on the wreck of the Miranda, on the Australian coast. Wellington, February 3. It is stated on good authority that a Royal Commission will be .formed to inquire into the circumstances connected with the sickness on board the Berar, and the state of the immigrants when shipped. Arrived ; The Ladybird, with the San Francisco mail. She sails south at four this afternoon. Passengers for Lyttelton, from Manakau : saloon, Mr and Mrs Williams, Messrs Scarborough and Campbell, Revs Fitchfctt, Armitage, and Watkin, From Nelson, Mr Garlick. Nelson, Feb. 3. At a meeting of the City Council last night all the members but two resigned, in consequence of a resolution passed by a meeting of ratepayers that the Council had lost their respect and confidence. Everything is at [sixes and sevens. The Corporation has an overdraft of £I7OO at the Bank, which dishonored their cheques yesterday. [FROM OUR WELLINGTON CORRESPONDENT.] Wellington, February 3. There has been another Berar death at the quarantine station. The Humboldt passengers are all landed, and seem a fine lot of people. Osgood, formerly of the Empire Hotel at Dunedin and here, has returned here from America, and intends to settle again in New Zealand. In the Police Court to-day, a man was remanded on a charge of attempting to stab another. The Jessie Readman, ship, wool laden, has hauled into the stream, and is ready to sail. [FROM OUR AUCKLAND CORRESPONDENT.] Auckland, February 2. The Mayor has convened a public meeting for to-morrow night,, to arrange for a suitable reception of the volunteer representatives on their return. James Wallace, a large farmer atOtahuhu, has been subjected to a series of injuries by the incendiary burning of his haystacks and other property, causing a loss of hundreds of pounds. The burning of a hay store, value £4O, is the last outrage. A man named Hardy, a smith, has been arrested on suspicion. The Maori, Newton, sentenced to death, complained that the gaolers did not hang him immediately, instead of condeming him, and then keeping him in suspense. The sentence will probably be commuted, on the recommendation of the Native Department, although the murder is regarded as without extenuation, and premeditated in cold blood. A young man named Edward Pattison, said to be respectably connected, has been arrested at the village of Otahuhu, on a charge of attempted rape on the person of Nellie Howe, a child of tender years. The families of Pattison and Howe were next door neighbours, and on terms of intimacy. The prisoner appears to feel his position intensely, and frequently sheds tears. He will be brought up at the Police Court to-morrow, when melancholy disclosures are expected. The schooner Peerless is transhipping a portion of the cargo of kerosine per Edith Rose, from New York, for Lyttelton, At the Prince of Wales’s Theatre the Girards are performing to a crowded house. It is a most remarkable performance; the contortions are indescribable, the performers twisting their legs round their kneck, kicking barrels held high above their head, and performing other feats of leg-mania. [FROM OUR DUNEDIN CORRESPONDENT.] Dunedin, February 2. Beal, as President of the Dunedin Club, made a presentation to Paramor. The purse contained ten guineas. In his speech he was very severe on the younger members of the team. His remarks, and the circulation of reports that the conduct of the Otago team was not what it should have been, causes a nasty feeling. It is stated that letters from Christchurch support his last assertion. The Mosgiel Woollen Company offers to furnish the inmates of the benevolent institution, industrial school, lunatic asylum, and gaol with yarn suitable for knitting, buying back the socks when completed at 24d each. The Times says the plan is not practicable for lunatics and prisoners, but fust the employment for benevolent and in dustrial institutions. The finding of the jury in Malaghan v, Wenkheim will occasion further litigation. Macassey contends that one farthing damages carries costs. It is not unlikely that the matter will go to the Appeal Couit. The Harbor Board, by the casting vote of the Chairman, decides to postpone constructing the dredge until the engineer reports as to the system of dredging to be adopted. The dredge was proposed to be built similar to the one ordered by Canterbury at home, with the exception of having inside instead of exposed buckets. In inviting the co-operation of the Otago institute in ascertaining whether there was a probability of such a collection of exhibits as to ensure a worthy representation of the province, at the Philadelphia exhibition, Mr Macandrew expresses his fear that there is not'sufficient enthusiasm in tbe province at present to go vigorously into the matter. In his address, Thomson, on retiring from che presidency, says that telegraph observations support the Institute’s recommendation of the Manuherikia Valley as the most suit-

able part of the province for observing the late Transit of Venus. He thinks the Government of the colony should be strong and wealthy enough to fit out its own expeditions for the next transit, and urges the importance of the colony sending expeditious to explore Victoria land in the southern regions.

It is stated that the General Government is desirous of opening the Clutha line from Mosgiel to Balclutha, as early as possible. The plate-laying from Tokomairiro to Balclutha will be finished to-day, and in three weeks the permanent way between Balclutha and the Taieri Ferry will be finished. On the Southern line the plate-laying is now finished to a mile above the Mataura-bridge. Surprise is expressed that goods trains do not already run from the Mataura bridge to Invercargill, so as to secure the wool traffic, as the contractors were willing to work the line.

A friendly society, connected with [the railway employes, has been started here. A correspondent of the Star accuses the Rev Mr Stanford of plagarising, in connection with his reply to Mr Fox. The month’s Custom’s revenue amounts to £34,389. A man named Johnson, over sixty years of age, will be brought before the Resident Magistrate to-morrow charged with criminally assaulting his step daughter, a child of tender years. George Johns, a platelayer, has been committed for trial for setting on fire a stack of oats at Tokamariro.