AUCKLAND.

Lyttelton Times, Volume IX, Issue 549, 6 February 1858, Page 3

AUCKLAND.

From journals to the 29th nit,, a week later than these previously recoiveil, we take the following : —

The Fancy Bazaar, in aid of the infant school -fund, was opened on -Tuesday, on the Government house lawn. Contributions of articles for sale having been sent in so profusely that it was' found impossible to dispose of them all in the course of a single day, the Bazaar was reopened on Wednesday, when almost a total clearance was effected. The stalls were kept by—Mrs. Gore Browne; Mrs. Lloyd, Mrs. Abraham, and Dr. Fischer; Mrs. llussell, and Mrs. Whitaker; Mrs. Buchanan, Mrs. Stewart, and Mrs. Dry; Mrs. Ely ; Mrs, Bain, and Mrs. .Hidings; Mrs. Gilfillan, Mrs. Stephenson, and Mrs. Holt; in addition to which two Onehunga ■stalls were kept by Mrs. Symonds, Mrs. Orrusby, Mrs. Brookfield, and Mrs. Taylor. A refreshment room, excellently purveyed, was kept by Mrs. Law, and an oyster saloon, a most successful speculation, by Lieut. Russell, in, appropriate costume, and his man, Captain Bulkeley. A post office, through which not a little correspondence passed, was attended to by Mr. Ely and staff; the postage, (the tariff of which was | not exactly framed upon the principles enunciated by Rowland Hill, contributing to swell the general fund. The gatekeepers, (to whom, as volunteers, the thanks of all who were interested in the Bazaar are due) received for entrance tickets £55 lls. 6d. The whole receipt, exclusive of the Onehunga stalls, where about £"100

"was taken, amounts to something over £500. The proceeds are to be devoted to building and furnishing an Infant school, and to providing a library. A play-groxmd will be put in order, with suitable appliances on the ground for the amusement of the children. The surplus of the funds collected, it is proposed tn invest as an endowment for the school.— S. Cross, Dec. 25.

Murder and Attempted StricrDE. —A barbarous murder has just been committed at Wangarei, with the commission of which John Ivilley or Kelly, a well-sinker, known to many of the inhabitants of this city, stands charged, and for which he has been fully committed to take his trial on the warrant of Dr. Thomas Brutton Kenderdine, Coroner for the Wangarei district. As far as we can learn, it appears that Killey and the deceased John Butler (a recently discharged grenadier of the sSfch regiment) had been drinking in company with some others—that a dispute arose and Killey used threatening language towai'ds the deceased, who left the house and went and lay down on the grass. According to one statement, Ivilley was observed, through the chinks of the hut, to. take a heavy billet of wood and belabour something lying upon the ground. At all events, Butler was discovered sorely mangled about the head, and, though then alive, he died some short time afterwards. -Killey, in the meanwhile, absconded, but was taken and brought before a Coroner's Jury, who returned a verdict of Wilful Murder against him. In the course of Tuesday morning the prisoner was lodged in Auckland gaol, where he conducted himseif with composure during the day, but became disturbed and restless throughout the night. On Wednesday morning, about half-past eight o'clock, the Turnkey entered the cell in order to send the prisoner out for exercise, but found him lying, motionless,on his back, with a superficial wound of about aninch-and-half Jong -on the left side of the throat. This wound had been inflicted by the heel end of an old, blunt and rusty razor blade of about an inch and a quarter in length, and had bled freely, the ■wretched man having held his head over a bucket. There were also two superficial cuts on the loft arm, the one inside and near the elbow joint, the other a little higher up. Mr. Curtis ■was immediately sent for, and the wounds, none of which are of a dangerous character, ■were dressed at once. The prisoner is now ■out of danger and composed, and has ever since been placed under the strictest surveillance. On examining the cell, there was found traced on the wall, in the prisoner's blood—

H -;- BRNKCOF — MO or MIT 58th 4 -"- 6 morning 23rd and lower down, near the floor, were traced very distinctly the letters M and X, and more indistinctly between them the letter A. As soon as the Serjeant of the Gaol Guard saw ■those letters, he said there was one of the discharged soldiers of the oSth of that name that had not been heard oi' for the last two years, In an hour after his wounds had been dressed. Killey begged of Mr. McElwaine that the letters might be washed off the wall. Killey's wife has been to visit her husband, who, in the first instance, was rather averse to seeing her. The mystery which these sanguinary letters have begot has, as will readily be supposed, caused no inconsiderable degree of anxious conjecture.—New Zealander', Dec. 26.