THIS DAY’S TELEGRAMS.

Globe, Volume IV, Issue 428, 27 October 1875, Page 2

THIS DAY’S TELEGRAMS.

Wellington, October 27. It is understood that the result of the Court of Enquiry on the conduct of Colonel Me Donnel re Brisseuden’s letters, will he nothing more than the expression of a regret he should have been so ill-advised as to retain possession for some three days of a letter not intended for him, and that the Court entirely exonerates him from all blame or responsibility for the manner in which the letter came into his possession. [FROM OUR AUCKLAND CORRESPONDENT.] Auckland, October 26. The Thames Rowing Club propose to endeavour to send a crew to the Christchurch Regatta. A kerosene lamp exploded in the Bendigo Hotel, Shortland, and set fire to the room. It was extinguished by great exertion. Edward O’Neill was excavating on the Waikato Railway extension, when a sudden fall of earth killed him. A difficulty between the Catholics and Freemasons has again arisen, on this occasion over the burial of a man named Grathan, landlord of the Thames Hotel, who was a Catholic and also belonged to a Masonic order. On Sunday some masons heard that there existed among the Catholic clergy a disinclination to perform the funeral ceremony on account of the deceased’s membership among the Freemasons. A Masonic officer waited on Father McDonald, and now states that he was led to believe that, so long as the craft did not make a demonstration by appearing in regalia, they were willing to perform the rite. A final answer was not given yesterday morning at 11 o’clock, and the priests kept putting enquiries off till three in the afternoon, when the clergy absolutely declined to have anything to do with the obsequies. The Masons then took the matter up, and in the short time allowed them, made preparations for conducting the funeral in their own formula. Entries for the Auckland Cup and Grand Stand Handicap close on Friday night,