TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Globe, Volume IV, Issue 302, 1 June 1875, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(Press Telegraph Agency.) Napier, May 31

At the Supreme Court this morning the Chief Justice, in a brief address, congratulated the Grand Jury on the lightness of the calendar, and the great improvement in the accommodation of the new Court-house. It is a commodious well-furnished building, but there is no reporting accommodation and it is very difficult to hear in. The Grand Jury found a true bill in all the cases. HOKITIKA, May 31. Arrived —Schooners Alert and Spray ; Waipara, from special settlement, Jackson's Bay. Everything is going on satisfactory. All are well. Dunedin, May 31. At the inquest on the body of Jenkins, who shot himself on Saturday, the jury returned a verdict of "temporary insanity." The Chain Hills tunnel on the Clutha line was successfully broken through to-day. The line and levels were within 1 inch. The tunnel is 471 yards long. It is expected that

trains will be able to run through to Clutha in eight weeks from to-day. A large party of officials and others went out by a special train to-day, and entering the tunnel, walked to where the break through was made. Champagne was introduced, and success to Messrs Brogden, the contractors, was heartily drunk.

The bailiff's room of the Resident Magistrate's Court-house was broken into between Saturday night and this morning, and £l3O stolen from the press. They must have obtained ingress by means of a window facing Water street, which was left unlocked. An enquiry re the bank notes stolen on Wednesday has been held. Each witness has has been examined. The proceedings were private. THIS DAY'S TELEGRAMS. Wellington, June 1. Arrived—Reliance, from Lyttelton. Oamaru, June 1. The National Bank has obtained the Municipal account. Tenders were invited by the Corporation who have £15,000 to deposit. The Bank gives 5 per cent for £3OOO for three years, and 6 per cent for £7OOO for twelve months, and 6 per cent for £3OOO for six months. The Bank is to charge no exchange or commission on the transmission of interest to debenture holders, and is to allow an overdraft if required, at the same rate as that given for the deposits. £lO3 have been collected towards the Euphrosyne fund here. An entertainment is being got up towards the same fund. Auckland, Juue 1. Mr Reader Wood has been gazetted Provincial Secretary. There is a household tax of 20s, and a bachelor's tax of 10s levied for education for the ensuing year. A Rotorua telegram states that ajparty of three gentlemen, Messrs Adams, Kenoss, and Gilfillan, on their way in a canoe to Monaperua, sprang (Rotorua Lake) were capsized in a gale on the 27th instant, on Rotorua, between Ohinemutu and Island of Mokoia. Mr John Gilfillan, of Wanganui, was drowned; the other two, by sticking to the bottom of the canoe, daifted towards Mokoia, from whence the accident had been witnessed by the natives, who made several unsuccessful attempts to launch a canoe to go to their assistance. Upon the canoe drifting within a short distance towards the island, a native woman courageously swam to their assistance, bringing the survivors to land, and carried them in spite of themselves into a hot bath, which soon restored them. The state of the lake prevented communication with the main land until Saturday morning. The body of Mr Gilfillan has not yet been recovered. The Native and Armed Constabulary are searching for it. Quite a gloom has been cast over the district by the accident, as Mr Gilfillan is much respected.