TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Globe, Volume V, Issue 557, 31 March 1876, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(Per Press Agency.') LATEST EEOM AUSTRALIA. [By Submarine Cable.] Sydney, March 30. A proclamation has been issued prohibiting the importation of stock here, except from the Australian colonies. The Assembly has rejected a motion to set apart a day for humiliation and prayer for rain. _____ ' IM'BRPROVINCIAL. Auckland, March 30. The Governor will examine White Island, and land at Tauranga after leaving Napier. His stay in Auckland will last till shortly before the meeting of Parliament. Four young men to-day were charged with assaulting Mr and Mrs Price in Newton on Saturday night. Constable Gamble deposed that towards midnight he saw a crowd in Newton, in which were the prisoners and the Prices. Most of them, including complainant, were under the influence of liquor. He told them to go home, as they were creating a disturbance. Next morning Price came and laid a charge. Mrs Price’s evidence set out that she and her husband had been shopping, and only met, but were not with prisoners. She deposed to prisoners, J. Mclmoyle and U. Mclmoyle, first assaulting her husband, and then robbing her of money and parcels. When she attempted to scream she was gagged and struck violently on her head. She was then grossly insulted by one and dragged across the road to a green patch near, where David attempted a criminal assault. The evidence here is unfit for publication. She struggled with all her might and tore prisoner’s face, when he kicked her in the mouth, cutting her lip, and filling her mouth with blood, and threatened to choke her if she screamed. After farther ill-treatment she became insensible. Donaldson and Lodge, two other prisoners, detained her husband while the others assaulted her. When she came to she was lying in the middle of the road. She is still suffering from her injuries. Concluding her evidence Mrs Price said the men who attacked her were quite strangers. Never spoke to them previously. Was quite sober. Got up from the road and managed to get to a cottage, but was too exhausted to tell her story. Mr Joy, counsel for defence, cross-examined her, She said the constable made a mistake in saying she was under the influence of liquor. She said she had only taken a glass of ale and half a glass of brandy that evening. When she came to it was daybreak. Her husband reported to the police, Alexander Young, medical practioner, deposed to the nature of the injuries inflicted upon complainant, Her lip was cut, one of her front teeth was knocked out, there was a wound on her nose and several bruises on her legs and other parts of her body. Had evidently been roughly treated. Benjamin O’Hara corroborated the statement of the constable that he saw Mr and Mrs Price dancing among the crowd apparently the worse for liquor. Price gave his evidence as to the assault. When his wife screamed, and he tried to go to her assistance D. M’llmoyle knocked him down and hammered him till he was insensible. He denied that he or his wife were drunk. The prisoners were all committed. The case created great excitement. Wellington, March 30. The deputation from Greymouth waited upon the Government this morning re, the harbour works, and received the assurance that the Government recognised the continuation of the Brunner railway and the harbour works connected therewith as colonial works, and that next session they would ask Parliament for the necessary funds to carry out the original plans. Dunedin, March 30. T* In Webb (trustee) v National Bank, Judge Williams granted a rule for arrest o: judgment and an alternative rule for a new trial. At the trial Mr Webb recovered £3OOO damages. THIS DAT’S TELEGRAMS. Wellington, March 31. O’Shea reports the produce prices, wholesale, flour, £lO 10s to £ll 10s per ton ; oats, old, 2s 9d per bushel; new, 2s 3d; potatoes, £5 per ton ; bran, 9d per bushel; auction cheese, lOd per lb ; hams, bacon, Is to Is 2d, There is no sale for milling wheat. The remaining subscriptions for the Fidelty Guarantee Society, about £IO,OOO, have been obtained at Auckland. This completes the amount of the capital required, £50,0C0. A meeting of the Wellington pro motors will be held forthwith, and the formation of the company duly declared in a few days, Dunedin, March 31. Dunedin grain market.—Wheat, prime milling, sales, 4s 6d ; middling, 4s 3d to 4s 4d. There is but a small export demand, and the millers are not buying heavily at current rates. Oats—The demand for export exceeds the present, supply ; good new feed, Is 9d to Is lOd; milling, Is lid. Barley—Nominal quotations, prime, 4s 9d to 4s ; ordinary 4s 3d to 4s fid. Share market —Buyers: Bank New Zealand, new, £l7; New Zealand Insurance Company, new, £53; National Insurance Company, £1 4s; Standard Insurance Company, lls fid. Sellars— National Bank, £3 Ifis ; Standard Insurance Company, 12s fid ; N.Z. Shipping Company, £4. Sales —Colonial Bank, £1 13s 4d to £1 13s lOd; Standard Insurance Company, 11s fid.