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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume III, Issue 141, 17 June 1868, Page 2

Thomas Wade, on remand from Wednesday last, and charged with stealing a pocketbook . containing £8 on Saturday last, was brought up this morning, and some additional evidence having been produced, was fully committed to take his trial at the next assizes. The Auckland Herald states that about 60 diggers, principally from the Buller, Grey, and Hokitika, arrived last week by the Taranaki, en route for the Thames Goldfield. An extra of the Taranaki Herald of Monday last, gives further particulars of the murder of Sergeant Cahill, who was a military settler, and of two other men, : Squire and Clarke, of which intelligence reached us by telegram on Mod day last. It appears that the murder was committed by 10 natives supposed to come from Pongarao. Cahill and the other two men were just fixing a heav y log on the pit when the volley was fired. Two of them were shot through the heart, and they were all dreadfully tomahawked. Some natives heard the firing, and saw the war party returning through their land exulting over the deed, and took the intelligence to Waihi, when a party went out to fetch the bodies. The natives near Turuturumokai have pledged themselves to defend the Europeans. The authorities have sent to Wellington for instructions. Major Hunter has gone up from Patea with 30 men, and Captain Koss with 25. This force will be quite sufficient to protect the district. The Pokahohi chiefs tendered their allegiance on the 10th and pledged themselves to protect the European settlers. Messrs Richmond Hursthouse, and Haigh had arrived safely at Oeo. There were several rumors floating about Taranaki as to the cause of these murders, but nothing reliable was known. The Grey River Argus of the 13th says that the Rev. Mr Larkin and Mr Manning were released from custody on Wednesday evening, having completed, within a few hours, the nominal sentence of imprisonment passed upon them by Mr Justice Richmond. A French envoy is expected at Wellington to endeavor to obtain a branch steam service between Tahiti and Opara. A Christchurch telegram states that the Right Rev. Bishop Viard left Wellingtou for Europe by the Kaikoura on the Bth., A public meeting to present him with an address was held on the afternoon, of the 6th, the Superintendent was chairman. Mr Justice Johnson proposed the address, and Mr Stafford, in seconding, alluded to the important services rendered by the *Bishop during the late Hokitiika troubles. The Bishop suitably replied. The Kaikoura took 75 passengers. The trial of William Henry Monaghan, for the wilful murder of George Frisby, on the 6th March, which commenced at Christchurch on Thursday last, before Mr Justice Gresson, terminated on Friday, in a verdict of manslaughter; The prisoner was sentenced to four years' penal servitude. The members of the legal profession at Auckland gave a dinner to his Honor Sir George Arney, Chief Justice, in the Provincial Council building, on Tuesday evening last. About thirty members of the profession assembled to do honor to their distinguished guest. The death of Mr H. A. Julius, member of the Otago Provincial Council for the

town of Oamaru, is announced. He died at the Criterion Hotel, Dunedin, from the effects of a severe cold, caught while attending to his legislative duties of the Council. The New York correspondent of the Sydpey Morning Herald states that Anderson, the well known professor of legerdemain, has committed suicide in Cincinnati, where he was performing, first having killed his little son. Domestic trouble is assigned as the cause ; the despatch stating that Mrs Anderson had the day before left Cincinnati in company with an employe of her husband's. She was telegraphed to on the road, and on receiving the terrible intelligence she returned to the city. It appears that at the close of 1867 four miles and 5,035 feet of the Mont Cenis tunnel had been completed, leaving two miles and 4,048 feet still to be pierced. The distance pierced in 1867 was 5,040, as compared with 3,416 feet in 1866, 4,079 feet in 1865, 3,626 feet in 1864, 2,673feetin 1863,2,076 feet in 1862, 1,210 feet in 1861, 1,144 feet in 1860, and 2,889 feet in the preceediug years. The outlay made upon this remarkable and important work (which has now been more than ten years on hand) amounted at the close of 1867 to about £1,700,000. It is now hoped that the tuuuel will be completed in 1871. Its length, when finished, will be seven miles 3,773 feet aud its total cost will be about £2,500,000, or something more than £300,000 per mile.