TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 4247, 30 October 1874, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

[Press Xbxeguaph Agency.] Auckland, Thursday. The execution of Charles X>yer is fixed for to-morrow morning. Exertions have beeninade to obtain a reprieve, on the ground of the prisoner's insanity, but no reply has yet been received from the Government. The Herald, this morning, strongly urges that every effort should be made to obtain the postponement' of the execution, on the ground that circumstances had been brought to light, which did not come out on the trial, necessitating further inquiries. Sir George Grey proposes that the Houses of Assembly should be abolished, and a new elective Council created of twenty or thirty members, whose duties should be confined to general work, leaving the internal affairs of the colony to bo administered by Provincial Governments, with larger powers than they at present possess. There should also be a Federal Council, to elect a President, who should be the head of the colony for the time being. It is expected that fuller details of Sir George's proposals will be published shortly. The inquest on the late fire in Wakefieldstrcot was again adjourned this afternoon Afterwards, three individuals, Komsley, Woodward, and Muffler, were arrested by the police ou a charge of arson.

Greytown, Thursday. The collector of the Local Board's rates gained a case to-day in the Magistrate's Court against a number of the ratepayers. Defendants gave notice of their intention to appeal to the Supreme Court. Wanganui, Thursday. A person named Fitzgerald has been sentenced- to three month's imprisonment with hard labor, and to be whipped, for a misdemeanor. The prisoner's victim was a girl of tender years. The Court rose at half-past two o'clock today, iu consequence of the Pastoral Society's Show taking place in.the afternoon. The Show was attended by crowds of people, and was a great success. There were a large number of entries. The show of. sheep and horses was pronounced to be magnificent. In the class for entires Ravensworth was beaten by Gladiator. from Otago, won the first prize for colonial draught horses. Napier, Thursday. Sir Donald McLean left town for Maraekukuhu to-day. The California Minstrels will conclude a very successful season here on Saturday next. They have been great favorites.. The lease for twenty-one years of the Omaha native school reserve was sold to-day at £750 per annum, to R. D. Maney, Esq. Wkstport, Thursday. The steamer St. KUda, bound for Greymouth, has changed, her route to Nelson and Wanganui, as the Grey bar is dangerous for a vessel of her draught. Dunedin, Thursday. The first report of the Mosgiel Woollen Factory gives a net profit for the eleven months ending 6th October, of £3611 7s. sd, The following appropriation is recommended : —lO per cent, dividend, £2284 15s. lOd; balance, £i326 lis. 7d., to be carried to the reserve fund, replacement of machinery, &c. At the Supreme Court, in Dobson v. Macandrew, a claim of £IOOO for wrongful ejectment from the Port Chalmers refreshmentroom, the jury, at 11 p.m., returned a verdict for £2OO. The defendant obtained leaye to apply for a new trial on nonsuit points, which were, disallowed at the close of the plaintiff's case. Dr. Whitlaw, late of the immigrant ship Schiehalliou, has been elected surgeon of the Naseby hospital. The total subscription to the Sailors' Home Fund is £750. Mr. Bathgate has reserved his decision in the cases of the publicans charged before him- " "i----having two bars in their houses. He convicted Lyons, who was charged with permitting singing and dancing in his licensed house. Two shops in Palmerston were burned down this morning. One belonged to Johnson, a storekeeper, and the other to Bowman, a shoemaker. There was no insurance on either. At the meeting of the City pouncil to-day the report of the City Surveyor was read, on the work required to be done to permanently complete the whole streets of the city. It was shown that on the most economical plan the cost would be £156,880.