LAST NIGHT'S TELEGRAMS

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1447, 5 October 1878, Page 2

LAST NIGHT'S TELEGRAMS

NEW ZEALAND TELEQ-KAMS. » [PEE PEESB AQKNOY,] Auckland, October 4. The petition favorable to a division of the city into wards, represent half the exercisable votes on the burgess roll, The criminal calendar includes one case of malicious injury to property, one of attempted murder, three of forgery and uttering, one of perjury, two of stealing from the person, one of fraudulent bankruptcy, one of manslaughter, one of larceny as a bailee, one of maliciously killing a calf, one of rape, and one of horse stealing. The brig Yision, from the Marshall and Caroline Islands, reports a great drought there, and tire natives suffering from the destruction of the tree*. New Plymouth, October 4. Mr Roy, solicitor, of Hawera, who left here on Thursday by the mountain road, has telegraphed to a friend saying he has arrived safely, and that the report respecting hostile natives stopping-Europeansis without foundation. Napiee, October 4. At the adjourned inquest this afternoon on the fire at the Spit, the jury returned a verdict that the cause of the fire was unknown. Evidence was given showing that a man named Q-rigsby, on whom suspicion had been cast, was in Napier when the fire broke out at the Spit, and was seen to go to the fire after the fire-bell rang. Dunedin, October 4.

A largo number of sheep and cattle, drowned in the Clutha hoods, have been washed ashore on the Ocean Beach.

In the course of argument in the Supreme Court to-day, Judge Johnston said magistrates clerks deserved to bo wakened up for their neglect of duty. Ho considered that it would be necessary to give them an exemplary caution, on account of the slovenly manner they forwarded papers to the Supreme Court, Unquestionably the Courts here had power to inhict fines for such carelessness.

[feom the coeeespondents of the peess.] Auckland, October 4.;

Private letters from Oregon, America, state that the Eev. C. Wrigg, late of Dunedin, has been offered and accepted charge of a church there, at a salary of £4OO a year to commence with. Mr Justice GHllics refused on Wednesday to discharge two bankrupts, because they were absent, though represented by counsel. The Court was entitled to the fullest information, and it might be necessary to examine a debtor as to his affairs. Dunedin, October 4, Full accounts of the state of Balclutha and surrounding districts and Southland are to hand. During yesterday the Mplyneaux fell nearly a foot. Four or five more houses were carried away, and several reported unsafe. Inch Clutha suffered most; at its upper end a channel fifteen feet deep and forty wide has been cut. Inch Clutha is now formed into four small islands, and Balclutha is practically a peninsula, la Kaiptngata, the water is still from sft. to 7ft. deep. Two churches there are filled with residents from Riverton. It is reported that the people at Jacob’s River had taken refuge on the tops of the houses. Riverton itself suffered very little damage. It will take over a month to repair the Winton-Kingston line, which in many places was washed bodily away. Collins, a settler on New River fiat, is reported missing. So high did the Molyneux rise at Clyde that the Hospital had to be removed in sections. The river was 10ft. higher than ever before known at this point. Enormous quantities of wreckage continue to come down the rivers. At Dunedin Ocean Beach, and several points along the coast, a considerable number of people are profitably engaged securing dead sheep, timber, etc.