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Manawatu Herald, 4 February 1879, Page 3

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[Hebald Special— By TelegbaphJ WELLixaTOsr, Monday, 7.55 p.m. The house of Ardenscan, a ship* aright, was broken into last night, ■while the family were at Church, and £40 in gold taken- N j trace of the burglars yet. Blenheim, Monday, 5 p.m. The case of Henderson, J.P., v. the Mayor of Blenheim, for- use of threatening language, was on for hearing to'day,bu* on the application ot Mr M'Nab, solicitor for defendant, was adjourned for seven days, to enable defendant to obtain material witnefsa?, 31 of whom are to be called. "\Ve9Tport, Monday, G.39 p.m. The Ohika Bridge contract has been accepted by a local man at £1998. The Koronui Company, Mho havo let the contract for the bridge, propose to push on with the construction of the branch line, and put the second issue of the scrip into the xnai-kei when the line is complete. Mr Cooper and Major Roberts arrived by the Beef ton coach on Satur* day, to eit as a Commission to-day, with regard to charges of intemperance and consequent neglect of ciuty, made against Warden Broad, R.At., by the polioe officer in charge, to his superior. It is £aid the latter had been incited by the Warden reporting 1 the said officer undeservedly. Napieb, Monday, 5 p.mCustoms receipts for January »vere £8,946 ; tor 1878, it was £4205. Vital statistics during last month -•Deaths 10; during January 1878, deaths 27; 1877, 17 deaths. Birt'.is — Last month, 38; January of last year, 31. Only 4 mairiages last month ; in January, 1878, there were fifteen. John Hare, formerly Registrar of the Supreme Court at Napier, and subsequently nt Wanganui, was nr ' rested yesterday on a charge of larceny of liquor from "White's Hotel. Farndon, the landlord, for sever.u daysmissed bottles of brandy from 1 his store-room, and suspecting his ' servants, watched on Saturday evening, and saw Hare go imo the store, and entering found he had 3 bottles of brandy : and a skeleton key. He went into a tit when the police went to arrest him, and could not bo removed owing to d. t.'s. The following' entries for Napier Handicap were made on Saturday evening — Ben Nevis, Dainty, Pohukura, Utupai, Danebury, Mufti, L ady Ellen, Merlin, Sinking Fund, Lady Elizabeth, Laertes, Pinfire, Pungaewerewere, Xantippe, Grey Momus, Lara, and lka. Hare is unable to be brought into town, and medical men believe will not recover. The police believe that the burning of the Konini Hotel on Saturday week, was caused by incendiarism, but owing to the insurance offices interested deciding to offer a reward for information, it is feared no steps can be taken to obtain direct evidence sufficient to convict. Dukedin, Thursday, 4 p.m. Bishop Seville has applied to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel for a grant of. £Booo with which to purchase Government lands in New Zealand as an endowment for the diocese of Dunedin. The Bev. A . It. Fitchetr, who has recently joined the Church of Lng> land, preached in All Sainis ? Church yesterday. Gobe, Monday, 6 p.m. Mr Conyers, continues much the same; if anything, his pulse is rather weaker. Uamaru, Monday, 0 5 p.m. Georgo Sumpter, agent for the schooner Clyde, has received tho following telegram from Captain j Bishop; - Southbridge, February 3. Clyde on shore twelve miles soirh <>f Banks' Peniusula ; crew all saved ; yards and topmasts gone ; stern-post, keel, and rudder gone, and topsiries started ; cargo not much damaged.