TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 4149, 8 July 1874, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

[Pkess Telegraph Agenct.] Auckland, Tuesday. In the Supreme Court, Heta, a Maori, for .horse-stealing at Hikaitaia, was sentenced to two years' penal servitude. William Jolmson was sentenced to five years' penal servitude. George Smyth, for larceny as a bailee, was sentenced to twelve months. The Grand Jury, after twelve hours' deliberation, returned a true bill against Alexander Brown, for incendiarism. The Opera Company opened to a good house. All the papers speak favorably of them. New Plymouth, Tuesday. The Eliza Mary, stood the gale well. The Harbor Master was on board all the time. The wind lulled towards evening, and this morning the sea went down. She is now out of all danger, and will continue discharging to-day. Geahamstown, Tuesday. The Advertiser gives the gold return for the month at 10,632 ozs., an increase of 3223 ozs. over last month. The Manukau has lodged the first instalment from their specimen crushing, giving 559 ozs. The Vulcan Gold Mining Co.'s battery, mine, and all appliances were sold under a distress warrant to-day for £l2O. The plant cost about £3OOO. Chkisiohchch, Tuesday. In the Supreme Court, the Judge in his charge to the Grand Jury, referred to the desirability of legislative action being taken for making inmates of inebriate wards at lunatic asylums work, as conducing more to the restoration of bodily and mental vigor than idling about. John Wilmshurst, surgeonsuperintendent of the ship Isles of the South, for larceny as a bailee of medical comforts, was sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment ; William Woon, for forgery and uttering, five years. The indictment against Kobert Quick, alias Patrick Quin, for manslaughter, was thrown out.

Over 2000 shares in the Colonial Bank were applied for during yesterday. A north-west wind is blowing. The weather is very hot, almost equal to midsummer. The members of the Kaiapoi public library have decided, by 3S to 37, to open the public library and reading-room from two to five on Sunday afternoons. The Christchurch City Council decided last night to apply to the General Assembly for a Bill to endow the city with the proceeds of the dog tax, auctioneers' and publicans' licenses collected within the boundaries of the city. Bluit, Tuesday. The schooner Endeavor is at the Heads, bound for Oamaru with coal. She left Newcastle on the ISth June. There is a strong south-west gale blowing.