YESTERDAY'S TELEGRAMS

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 1032, 16 October 1877, Page 2

YESTERDAY'S TELEGRAMS

[SPECIAL TO THE DTTNEDIN "STAR."] The Rowing Championship. London, October 8. Higgins beat Boyd by two lengths for the Rowing Championship of England. INTERPROVINCIAL. [pee psess agency.] Auckland, October 15. At the opening of the Diocesan Synod today the Bishop spoke most hopefully of the Maori Mission. He said that in the northern division of the diocese the work of the Church was advancing generally. The conduct of the people had been good. Intemperance was on the decline, arid communicants and attendance at public worship were increasing. Several churches in Native villages had been erected, some costing from £2OO to £250. The Maori clergy of the North reported favorably of Church work in their several districts ; that there are now lay readers in places where formerly there were none; that children are not left unbaptized ; that matrimony is general; that there is a great demand for Bibles and Prayer Books ; and that many tribes are desirous of having Maori ministers resident among them. In the south of the diocese there are tokens of revived faith and of a desire on the part of some who left during the war to return to the flock of the Good Shepherd. In April he held a confirmation at the principal settlements of the Maoris of the West Coast, between Waikato and Raglan Heads, and since then a tried and excellent Maori minister of Waikato had been invited to take up his abode beyond the boundary of the confiscated territory, on land set apart for his use by the so-called, rebels. Four Maori deacons are being prepared for priest's orde;s, and the Bishop hopes that through them others of their countrymen will be brought to desire the work of pastors and evangelists, and that thus a succession of faithful Maori clergymen will bo continued so long as the two races remain apart. Moyle, late landlord of the Wharf Hotel, luiß been committed for trial for attempting suicide. A ship, believed to be the Famenoth from London, passed Russell yesterday. Wellington, October 15. The Mayor, the principal members of the clergy, and a number of leading citizens held a preliminary meeting this afternoon to decide as to the proper course to take towards collecting subscriptions in aid of the Indian Famine Relief. Bishop Redwood sent a note, apologising for not being able to attend and enclosing a cheque for £5. It was ultimately decided to call a public meeting for Thursday, and to invite His Excellency the Governor to preside. It is intended to form a good committee, who will canvass the city in sections. The idea of making collections in aid in the churches did not find favour. It is stated that Mr Hislop has taken out a summons against Mr James Mackay for assault. [from the correspondent of the press.] D. Proudfoot's Trial. A Romance of the Sea. Dunedin, October 15. Proudfoot's trial excites great attention. Isabella Angus's examination and cross.

•xamination lasted till three o'clock. Her ■ vidence was not shaken in any way.—Jane Vngus, mother of the last witness, repeated i,he evidence given in the Police Court, and idded : I saw r prisoner at our house on Tuesday last. He came to the door, said he was I'roudfoot, and wanted to see Bella. I said he ■ould not see Bella. He said he was not married, and wanted to marry my daughter. [ did not speak to him. He further said he was sorry for what he had done, that he had plenty of property and cows, and might keep her the rest of her days. I said "No," and left him.—James Angus, said: When I went home on Tuesday night prisoner was standing inside my door. He said, " G-ood evening, Angus." I said, " G-ood evening," and he called me aside and said he wanted to speak to me. He then explained about the affair, and said he was sorry for what he had done. He said, " Supposing I am not married, will you allow Isabella to marry me ?" I said I thought he was married. He said he was not, and if I would consent he would consent. He would be willing to make Bella comfortable. I told him that I could not do that.—By Mr Smith : I never carried on negotiations through Mr Joyce, the solicitor, or anyone else with a view to entertaining a proposal for marriage between my daughter and the prisoner. The Eev. Father Eoyer, on the eve of leaving Mount Ida, has been presented by his late parishioners with a purse of eighty sovereigns and an address. The Australian cricketers purpose first playing in Invercargill, if sufficient inducement be offered. The " Star " has received information that the whole question of the title of European purchasers to confiscated lands is about to be tested by an action of ejectment against the proprietor of a large estate in Waikato. The Immigration Officer, Mr Allan, sends the following extraordinary letter to the papers : " I wish to bring before your serious consideration a very mysterious affair, viz., Donald McKinnon, unmarried, Angus Macdonald, married, Donald G-illies unmarried, Mrs Malcolm Macdonald or Betty Scott, Alexander G-illies unmarried, Donald Macdonald married, Ewen Gillies unmarried, all from St Kilda. The above-named seven men and women went in the spring of 1863 in a boat for some commodity for their families to Harris, but of whom no traces could be found. It was then and since thought they were all drowned in crossing the channel, but it now turns out by an account received of Donald McKinnon, St Kilda, who died of fever at the Transvaal Republic, South-East Africa, that they were taken away by some bad captain of a ship, which met them in the bay, and who had disposed of them in different parts of the world, and they bound themselves by an oath that they would never disclose how they had been dealt with. McKinnon went to Dunedin in 1563, and he and some other acquaintances of his came back in the same ship with him from Australia to Transvaal. I hope you will examine your lists of passengers for the year mentioned, to see if you can find any person or persons named from St Kilda, North Britain, in your list of passengers for the year 1863.—John McKay. St Kilda Manse, July 10th, 1877."