TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Globe, Volume IV, Issue 411, 6 October 1875, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(Per Press Agency.') Auckland, October 5. Mr Glass, late overseer of Mr Mclvoy's plantation, Fiji, recently arrived from Levuka, cut his throat this morniDg. The supposed cause is a depressed state of mind from ill-health. About £l5O were found in his possession. He intended going home to his friends in Glasgow. The Justices dismissed the charge of assault with intent against Kirby, coal merchant.

In the Supreme Court Michael Keeley, for perjury, was sentenced tc three years ; two natives, charged with violent assault and robbery at Poverty Bay, received a month and a week respectively; another native, from the same place, charged with forcible entry, was acquitted. The insurances on the ship Strathmore are —New Zealand, £IO,OOO ; National, £4BOO ; South British, £2400. Wellington, October 5.

The Tribune to-night says that by a sort of general consent it is understood that the House will be prorogued and dissolved on the 20th instant.

Arrived, from London, Kinfauns Castle. No immigrants. Entries, Wellington Cup :—Mr Quinlivan's Maid of the Mountain, Mr R. H. Campbell's Castilian, Mr Ward's Haphazard, Mr Mallock's Kanolf, Mr Shand's Kauri, Mr Shand's Chief, Mr Shand's Blair Athol, Mr Shand's Cloth of Gold, Mr Arthur Owen's Voltaire and Volerene, Mr Yeend's Rory O'More and King Philip, Mr Delamain's Templeton, Pungawerewere and Folle Fariue, Mr Redwood's Hercules, Guy Fawkes, Cocksure, Korari, Mr Gilligan's Princess Mary, Mr O'Brien's Tambourini, Mr Day's Cornelia, Mr Walker's Glenary, Mr Eayner's Banker, Mr Ray's Tadmor, Tommy Dodd. For the Derby the entries are—Maid of the Mill, Castilian, Ranolf, Kauri, Chief, Blair Athol, Cloth of Gold, Volerene, Folle Farnie, Pungawerewere, Cocksure, Korari, Mr Redwood'* Norah and Lilian, Mr O'Brien's Fishhook (late Lough Neagh), Mr P. Camp bell's Daniel O'Rourke, Mr Nosworthy's Tattler.

Dunedin, October 5. An inquest on Cyrus Haley will be held to-morrow.

The sentences given in the Supreme Court are—Anne Hardie, for stealing, with fiftyone previous convictions, three years ; Caldwell, for embezzlement, three years ; White, for stealing, three years ; Goodall, for stealing from a hotel, twelve months' hard labor ; Golding, for stealing, twelve months ; and Hutchinson, alias German Charlie, a desperate criminal of the West Coast notoriety, on a charge of burglary, was found guilty of simple larceny only, and sentence deferred ; Richard Beattie, for assault with intent, was found " Not guilty." At the annual walking show of entires today, the exhibits were superior to those of last year. Nearly all the horses were bought in at large figures. Dodson and Son's imported Cassivellaunus carried off the palm, his appearance being magnificent.