TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

Inangahua Times, Volume III, Issue 61, 8 January 1877, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

~+ [Bt ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.] [?BB FBESS ASSOCIATION] Auckland, .January 4. The Hero's news has been anticipated, The quarantined passengers of the Australia express strong dissatisfaction at the alleged neglect of the Government , in not providing tie necessary comforts and medical attendance. Qn Tuesday evening tome attempt to construct a raft with the intention of escaping was made, and they were with difficulty dissuaded from seizing a boat, and. coming to complain to the authorities. When Dr Shilson visited the Quarantine Station the passengers . nied a' threat that if their wants were not attended to they would violate the quarantine regulations. The nominations for the Derby of 1879, and Mares' Produce Stakes 18S1, must be made to the Secretary at Auok- 1 land, by 8 o'clock on Friday evening. Wellington, January 4"Rodolph Laurent, a youth of seventeen, for^a cr|minal assault on a little girl, was sentenced this morning at the Supreme Court to eight years imprisonment ana twenty lashes. The Agent-General, under d/te December 27th, telegraphs the despatch of the following shipments of immigrants : — Oxford,' 23?, for Auckland ; J"ernglen, 240, for Napier; Northampton, 334, for Westland and Wellington.. Westpobt, January 4. The first meeting of the County Coon* cil was held at noon. It was resolved to adopt the entire Act. Owing to the serious indisposition of Lady Normanby, his Excellency's intended visit to the South has been indefinitely postponed. Dunepin, January 4. Wm. Harrywood, the defaulting secretary of the Colney Hatch Gas Company, who was arrested on his arrival in the May Queen, at Port Chalmers, was brought before the Kesident Magistrate. Detective Dalton, of the London police, identified the prisoner, and produced a deposit by one of tbe directors of the company which showed that accused had embezzled over £6000. He was committed to the Dunedin gaol to wait the arrival of the Governor's warrant for bis transmission to England. Hokitika, January 6. Learmonth reports Just-in»Titnes, 15s; Wealth of Nations, £5 10 ; Fiery Cross, 17s ; Caledonian, 9d 6d ; Hopeful, 75s ; Kumara Water Bace Company, £40, premium ; and Hokitjka Gas, £6 0s Cd. NjU»ie?, January 6. Sir D,onald M'Lcan had been ill for some days before his death— so ill that his recovery was considered out of the question, but by the request of his family the local journals abstained from saying anything about it, as he was in ih« habit of looking at tli£ newspapers, and if he saw in them about his illness it would be a source of vexation to him. On Sunday his life was quite despaired of; be rallied, however, considerably, and to a very early hour yesterday it was thought possible the acute attack: of his disease might pass over for a time, but about five o'clock in the morning the attack took a sudden turn for the worse, and at 9 o'clock another turn whiqb rendered all hopeful anticipations void. From that time to 10 minutes to 4, in the afternoon when he died, he was almost unconscious. Now and then be muttered some words in Gaelic of terror, showing that his mind was occupied with thoughts suitable to the imminence of his entrance into a future state. He could, recognise faces, but bis brain could scarcely be said to be at work. His death has created a profound sense* tion here amongst all classes. The fpne- , ral will take place to-morrow, at 3. o'clock. Both Masonic lodges will meet at % and then proceed in procession. The Victoria Lodge will take precedence in the funeral, because of Sir Donald having been Grand Master of the English institution. The Masons' regret regalia latoly arrived trom England, and, i? all in Wellington. The Artiljery Corps will attend and, the funeral will have something of a military character.