TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Globe, Volume IV, Issue 312, 12 June 1875, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(Press Telegraph Agency.')

Auckland, June 11

It appears that the advance made by the General Government to the province is not a special advance, but is only the payment of the £fiooo over which Sir George Grey and Dr Pollen held an extended telegraphic correspondence, Sir George Grey contending that it was due on the 31st of March last. A Maori was committed to trial to-day on a charge of breaking into the house of McDowell, a settler at Mahurangi, at night, during the absence of the owner, with the intention to commit an indecent assault on the settler’s wife.

The Race Club enquiry into a swindle said to have arisen out of a match between Daybreak and Maori Weed, has resulted in the disqualification of Boron, the trainer, and Kelly, the rider, of Maori Weed. Isaacs the owner of Daybreak, has been called on to give an explanation, or retire from the club.

A writ for libel, £SOO damages, has been served on the. Cvoss at the suit of Cecilia Allen, the young girl charged with arson, but acquitted. The case arises out of the suggested “ chloroforming out of existence, 1 ’ which caused some remark in various colonial journals at the time. Captain Casey has abandoned his threatened action against the Star. Wellington, June 11.

A Gazette Extraordinary, published this afternoon, contains a proclamation commanding persona! attendance at the Parliament House Wellington, on the 20th of July, at two in the afternoon, for the despatch of business.

THIS DAY’S TEIEGRAMS. Napier, June 12, The Provincial Council has been opened. Mr Ormond was re-elected as Superintendent unopposed, Mr Adeane as Speaker, and Mr Panin as clerk. The Superintendent thanked the Council for his re-election, and accepted it on the understanding that he should be at liberty to resign before the ex piration of the term for which the Council was elected. He said that the receipts of the Paki Paki railway per month were larger than those of any other line in the North Island. 2457 immigrants had been introduced-into the province during the past twelve months. The ordinary revenue exceeded the estimate, but the territorial had fallen off. After providing for all expenditure there will be a balance in hand of £13,000 The abolition of the provinces throughout the colony would lead to a more efficient and economical administration of local affairs. Dunedin, June 12.

The funeral of Mr Stewart Hawthorne was attended by one hundred pupils of the High School. The pall-bearers were six of the oldest pupils of the school. Bishop Neville performed the funeral service, and the members of the Executive aud Provincial Council were present., Port Chalmers, June 12.

The Hawea brings eighteen passengers, and is under the command of Captain Wheeler. She is fitted up in a most superb manner, and is calculated to carry about seventy cabin and twenty-two second cabin passengers.

[FROM OUR AUCKLAND CORRESPONDENT.] Auckland, Juno 11.

Aii inquiry instituted by the Racing Club into the scandal connected with the match between Maori Weed and Daybreak, proved clearly that the race was a sell. Maori Weed could have won the race easily. It was shown that the owner of Maori Weed had nothing to do with it. The club disqualified the trainer, Barron, and the jockey Kelly. They called on the owner of Daybreak to give an explanation or retire from the club. It is hoped that this vigorous proceeding will have a beneficial influence on the turf.

There was a remarkable case at the Police Court to-day. A Maori was charged with burglariously entering the house of a settler at Mahurangi. The evidence showed that the husband was away, and the wife was sleeping alone with her family. In the night she heard a noise, and got up. She saw prisoner forcing open a window, and she rushed forward and held it down, screaming all the while. A neighbouring settler heard the screams and came to the rescue, and the Maori decamped, but afterwards came back and forced open the house; but the woman

and children meanwhile had removed to the neighbour’s. The prisoner was committed for trial.

Intelligence was received in town that a man named Arthur had gone away into the bush from Low and Nation’s mill, and it was feared, from his eccentric behaviour, that he would do himself some injury. The man referred to has not been long in the colony, and is addicted to drink, Y esterday he left his work and went into the bush. He stayed there all night, and returned at six this morning in a dripping condition, having evidently fallen into the creek. He was in a most excited state, and said he was condemned to lie shot at seven o’clock. Shortly before that time he went off again, and made for Titree. A man rode into town and informed the police and a mounted constable has been sent out in search for the lunatic.