TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 4161, 22 July 1874, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

[Pebss Telegraph Agency.] Grahamstown, Tuesday. The weather is severely cold. Snow is on the hills round town. It is reported that the snow is seven inches deep on Punga Plat.' Napier, Tuesday. At the land sales to-day, very good prices were realised for town lots. The lease for 35 years of suburban church lands also sold well. A two-storey house, in occupation of Mrs. Adams, White Road, was burnt down this afternoon. The fire is supposed to have been accidental. Chrisichuroii, Tuesday. There was the heaviest snow storm last night that has been experienced for many years. 2500 shares in the Colonial Bank were . applied for yesterday. Auckland, Tuesday. The Supreme Court has awarded £250 damages to the parents of Bridget Donelly, a servant at the Raglan Hotel, for seduction by Bannister, the landlord. The Supreme Court was occupied all day with the case of J. S. Macfarlane v. C. A Harris, junr., an action to recover £IOOO damages for malicious prosecution, arising out of recent proceedings for inciting to murder . The evidence generally related to the manner in which informations were laid. John McLeod, Justice of the Peace, formerly a member of the General Assembly, before whom the informations were sworn, deposed, in reply to questions by the Judge, that he would not put much faith in Macfarlane's statement on oath. His knowledge of Macfarlane's commercial and political influences led him to believe Macfarlane a dangerous man. The case was not concluded. Lyttelton, Tuesday. Twelve hundred shares in the Colonial Bank have been applied for here. Dunedin, Tuesday. In the Mayoral election, Ramsay had a majority of 34; the votes being—Ramsay 1106 ; Walter, 1072. Mr. John Brooks, produce merchant, Manse street, was lost in the snow at Waikari last night. His body has since been found. Port Chalmers, Tuesday. Mr. Andrew McKinnon has been returned Mayor by a majority of 21 votes over the other candidate, Mr. Innes. Nelson, Tuesday. Charlotte Boseley, landlady of the Bay View Hotel, Suburban North, was found dead, under suspicious circumstances, on Saturday morning. A Coroner's inquest has been held, and the jury, after an hour's deliberation, returned a verdict of wilful murder against Norman Boseley, deceased's husband, and against William Milyard, barman, as accessory after the fact. The body was terribly bruised about the head and face. The medical evidence was that death had been produced by rupture of a blood vessel in the head, causing pressure on the brain, and that the rupture had been caused by a blow behind the ear.