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Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 2, Issue 60, 24 February 1868, Page 50

The Superintendent.—His Honor the Pagerintendent took his departure for the sPast, Coast in the Sturt on Saturday last. Promotion.— Lieut. -. John Chapman George has been gazetted Captain—date pf commission 27th January, 1868.

Toll-Gate,— Tenders, receivable up to Saturday next, are invited for the erection pf a toll-gate - at Tareha’s Bridge.. English- Mails.—-The’ Lord Ashley is due Here from Southern Ports on Thursday nexti with the English mails via Sue? and Panama,

- The South.—Numerous extracts from *• . late .Southern papers, relating principally r... t0 late gales and floods, will be found plsewhere. The Deeenoe Minister.— The Hon. Colonel Haultain, Minister for Defence, . was a passenger by the Sturt on Friday - last. ’He' proceeded to ffie East Coast in ' the Bame vessel on Saturday evening.

English News.—No. telegrams of English news had been received in Wellington up to 7 a.m.‘on Thursday last,—all '' ’ Porntniunicatjon being suspended with pla- . . pes sputh of Blenheim. ; J Constabulaey Force.—Tester Ctay/a, statement (which we have been unable to . trace to a reliable -source) i was purrent in town, to the effect that the ; men ~ poffiprising the Armed' Constabulary Force ' bad Received.the“ route ” for Opotiki; ■ 4 - The;'Weather. ; — of wind Yest.rind north-west. have prevailed « ; v the week J past," causing incalculable (*--t|njury tq tUe’whole country." .Prayers for b# r ,ed UR, in various .places : pf worship yesterday." ‘ 5 £1 hSSLV.", . - 1 ,' - , C c OESfnKcraC--.!Ete Hon. A. T* Hpnor^Ddriald l M'Lean, Dr & phthe Royal

Whale.—A large fish, which looked remarkably like a whale, was seen in the road? stead on Saturday afternoon, quite close to shore. After'spoutirig once or twice, arid taking a survey ofthemoorings, the marine monster put to.sea. ; No attempt was made to capture him. !

Prize Fiehtg.—-Owing to the distances being 1 incorrectly measured at the preliminary Competitive' firing on Wednesday last, the shooting will come off again on Mondays 2nd March, at 10 a.m. We learn that the firing will take place this time at Greenmeadows.

„ Government Officials.—ln view of a falling revenue, 'and tlie great demands made on it on the part of the Genera!Government, the officials in the employ of the Provincial Government, and parties receiving subsidies have received notice to hold themselves in readiness for a termination of the several engagements of the Provincial Government with them, should such step be found necessary. We presume that the whole question of Provincial expenditure will be agitated and settled at the approaching meeting of the Provincial Council.

The Tarndale Tragedy.—The Nelson papers report at length the inquiry before the Coroner relative to the murder of German Charlie, and suicide of the murderer, Ivanhoe Stanley Augarde. A brief report of the melancholy tragedy, as telegraphed to the Wellington Independent, has already appeared in these columns. It would appear that German Charlie had been entrusted by Augarde to convoy a letter to a Miss Gee, a young lady to whom the latter had been paying his addresses; that he had opened it, and showed it all round the neighborhood, in order, as he said, to “spite Ivy.” The young man resented this, and in a fight which ensued with the German, the former, it would appear,.came off second best. Augarde subsequently obtained a rifle, rode to the station where .the German was employed, and shot him dead. He subsequently* blew his own brains out. The jury found verdicts according to the facts, —“murder” in the one case, and “ felo-de-se ” in the other.

Murder at German Gully, Hohiti- : ea.—A' man named James Douglas has been committed for trial by the Hokitika ; magistrates, oh the charge ‘ of haring murdered Hugh Carmichael, afc Gerriiau Gully, on the 6th December last. The body was discovered by Charles Day, secreted in a water hole, on the 17th December,'and the same witne s discovered a pick handle belonging to the prisoner lying near the hut of the deceased. The prisoner was then arrested, and remanded from time to time for the purpose of procuring further evidence." On the 22nd he coufessed the mur- - der to a fellow-prisoner named Thomas Williams, and the whole conversation was overheard by Constable Hickson, who was concealed in the cell. The following is a portion of the evidence given by the man VVilliamsf‘l • remember Wednesday night, 22nd January; I had a conversation with prisoner. He said that he did kill Hugh Carmichael. He said that Carmiphael had robbed him o£ half-an-ounce or twelve pennyweights of gold ; he had seen him do it, arid plant it on a rock under a mustard tin lid. He (prisoner) went and looked at it, • hut did not remove it, and Carmichael must have seen his footsteps ; audwhen 'he' saw the gold, and knew he was being robbed of it, he then made up his mind what he was going to do. They never worked as mates afterwards. J This must have been about three months previous to the night of the murder. He (prisoner) said that he went to deceased’s hut and asked him what he had done with the gold he had been robbing him of. Prisoner said he went “into the hut, and Carmichael, seized a tomahawk. . Prisoner ran but, and Carmichael folio well him with the tomahawk. 1 Prisoner had a piece of firewood, in his hand, half round and half square, about seven or eight pounds weight, so that ft would either cut or bruise. He said they were fencing outside the same as if they were going through sword’exercise; and at one time he thought Carmichael had (lie best of it, for the wood was so heavy he could not well fence with it. i Prisoner said they had .been fencing about four or five minutes, but at last prisoner struck deceased a blow between the left eye and car, somewhere about the fcemole. Deceased -.fell, and never got up or spoke again. When prisoner saw the man was dead, he threw the tomahawk in a water .hole, and deceased. after it into the same water hole. Prisoner thought that hole was not deep enough for him, so he dragged him out, and threw him in another water hole about twenty .feet away. Prisoner said he never struck- deceased with a tomahawk in. the water ~ hole where he had first thrown him. I asked him if .he had any particular 1 reason for killing hitn'that night". He said he had, for it was raining hard, and he knew very "Well it would wash away all traces pf footmarks. I asked prisoner if he had anything more to teli me. He 'said, ‘Nq, Tom, I have told-you all. You know as much about it now as I cj°* My-lifb rests in your bauds.’ Prisoner said if he got clear of the charge he would settle a few more before heleffc the coast. ‘lf he had the'name he would: have the gains. .Prisoner, said he wlffild.,settle- Detective Browne the’ first place lie rnct liim. j Prisoner ..hftd, "on the ixpornirigrof i the-22nd,' made a similar, statement to me. ,Ori..the same night, in the lb : ck-up, Sergeant* Hickson said,* t: Dduglas, I 'have overhoafdoalt the conversation.you have had;there.. .If you move T will mow your drain’s ouS. *Dc> imhf. Hjpksoriu from; Hokitikfo.> --I-f ftrrffijjied ypp* pa suspicion, hut r li*now