TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 4249, 2 November 1874, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

[Pkess Telegraph Agency.] Tauranga, Saturday. The first artesian well is being sunk in the township by the Highway Board. The Tauranga Races will be held on the 6th of January. About £l5O will be offered as prizes. An information has been laid under the Licensing Act, which will probably make public all particulars regarding the fearful death of the native chieftainess Arihia, who fell into the boiling siting when drunk at Rotorua. Dunedin, Saturday. Henry Bedford, the celebrated Victorian pedestrian, was charged at the Magistrate's Court to-day with forgery at Sandhurst, and was remanded to Victoria. An unusually large number of deaths was registered this month, a great proportion being ' attributable to measles and bronchitis. The revenue for October is £27,706, against £31,9-10 for the corresponding month of 1873. Judge Chapman gives his decision on the application for a new trial in Macassey v Bell on Wednesday. Wanganui, Saturday. The Secretary of the Agricultural Society by mistake gave Ravensworth the ticket for first prize. The judges had awarded him second. This is likely to cause trouble. None of the Supreme Court cases are very important. Yesterday Blake, for aggravated assault, was found not guilty; and Donahy, for stealing from the person, not guilty. The latter case caused immense amusement, through the ridiculous behaviour, of a witness. The sale of Daniells' stock yesterday was well attended, and high prices were realised. Well-bred cows, £l7 per head ; ordinary and inferior, £8 10s. to £ls ; old, £4 to £7 ; yearling heifers, £3 10s. to £6 10s.; forty yearling bulls averaged £9 10s.; pure cows, from £45 to £77-—bought by Mr. Nairn, of Napier. Mr. Canning bought two at £BS and £9O. The bull Knight of the Crescent fetched £ll9 ; Knight of Bath, £IBO ; both were bought by Mr. Nairn, of Napier. All the best stock goes there. Ordinary ewes, with lambs, 30s. The thoroughbred horses up to £9O ; they mostly go to Napier. Auckland, Saturday. The following telegram was sent by Sir G. Grey in reply to Mr. Fitzherbert : —" Thank you for telegram. Surely men worthy of the great liberties they have will not let them be taken from themselves and descendants without a struggle. The British Parliament which gave these liberties thought them so valuable that it in each amending Act made them more secure. Pray telegraph as Superintendent to the Secretary of State, and point out the course taken as unconstitutional, and pray that no action be taken until new election should take place and the provinces heard. Parliament will at once accede to this.—G. Grey.'.! The Albion, whaler, has arrived, after a cruise of four months, with 130 barrels of humpback oil. Plenty of whales were seen, but there were not sufficient hands on board. A boy hamed Brown was run over by a ballast waggon early this morning on the Mercer railway, near Papakura, and had his left leg severed from his body just above the knee.- He died shortly afterwards.