TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Globe, Volume III, Issue 224, 26 February 1875, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

{Press Telegraph Agency.) Auckland, February 25. The charge against Dugald McNaughton for indecent awault on a child has been dismissed. The Thames Gas Company has declared a dividend of four per cent for the half-year. GRAHAMSTOWN, February 25. The Thames citizens, through the Mayor, Mr Davies, have invited Sir D. McLean to dinner, but he has declined the invitation, owing to the pressing demands for his presence for settling native matters at Poverty Bay and other places on the Bast Coast. Napier, February 25. Charles Barnes was fined £lO at the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning for assaulting Julius Matthews, by horsewhipping him in a public Btreet yesterday. WANGANUI, February 25, The races to-day were successful. Stake (£60); one and a half miles. Quinlivan's Maid of the Mountain won as she liked, Higgles* Gainsborough second; the rest nowhere. Nine horses ran. Time, 2min 59sec. Scurry (£15); mile and distance. Medora 1 Whitefoot 2 Valentine 3 Wanganui Stakes (£4O). True Blue 1 Little Wonder 2 Hardy ,», ... 3

Licensed Victuallers' Pubse (£30); mile and distance. Fawn 1 Medora 2 Barbara 3 Ladies' Purse. True Blue 1 Diver (late Flatcatcher) ... 2 A thousand to 1200 people was on the course.

Wellington, February 25. The General Government have chartered tV>e steamer Napier to take twenty-five or thirty troopers to Opunake, where a native disturbance has been reported. She is to leave to-morrow morning.