AMERICAN NEWS.

Hawke's Bay Times, Issue 1614, 25 September 1874, Page 371

AMERICAN NEWS.

Political riots have occurred in South Carolina among the negro factions that are struggling for the control of the state. In Mississippi the negroes were repulsed by the whites with military assistance. Extensive fires have occurred in various parts of ihe States. The Beecher scandal fills many columns of the papers. Beecher has published a statement denying the charge of adultery with Mrs Tilton. He says the accusation arouse out of Tilton's want of success, and his insatiable desire for notoriety. The Tribune Bays the Rev. Mr Beecher has been the victim of a gigantic conspiracy. New York, Ist September.—The Committee having investigated the charge preferred by Tilton against the Rev. Ward Beecher, acquitted him. There is a great official scandal at Montreal, owing to the discovery of an exchange made by three members of the Cabinet of a piece of Government land worth §230,000, for a piece of private property worth only $40,000. The Cubans have attacked and destroyed several plantations, and are arming the emancipated slaves. Two monster leg-bones of moas have been found in a tributary of the Clarence river, in the Province of Marlborough. The Governor will probably leave early in December. The younger members of the family go home in the ship Halcione. A Tauranga telegram of Saturday reports heavy iains inland, and rivers rapidly rising. A remarkable waterspout was seen at Opotiki on Friday. The Kev. Mr Salmond, Free Church minister, of Barry, Forfarshire, Scotland, has been offered the Professorship of Theology in the Otago University. It is reported that Mr Vogel, when in England, will endeavor to otbtain the passing of an Act in the Imperial Parliament empowering the General Assembly to ' make the constitutional changes embodied in the resolutions passed last session. The official scrutiny of the voting papers at the recent Waitemata election has resulted in the striking off of eighteen double votes from Von der Heyde, and twenty from Macfarlane, leaving a majority of 62 for Von der Heyde.