TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 4285, 14 December 1874, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

[Press Telegraph Agency.] Auckland, Saturday. The breach of the Customs regulations resulting in the seizure of the cutter Rose has ended in the fining of the master £lO. It was proved to be a case of negligence and not of wilful intention to defraud the revenue. A little girl named Brown fell over the cliff at Hobson's Bay and fractured her skull. She lies in an unconscious state. Wanganui, Saturday. Two boys were drowned in the river to-day at noon. One, six years of age, fell in, and the other, aged eleven, pluckily jumped in to save him. The younger one grasped him, and both went down. One body has been recovered. Ghahamstown, Saturday. , Sir Donald McLean met the natives again this morning. The talk was merely a repetition of what was said at Ohiuemuri. Te Hira says Ohiuemuri is the only place he has left, and wants to keep it. Matters are reported to be progressing favorably. Great interest is ; felt by the public, who have begun to look 1 upon the opening as a certainty. Greymouth, Saturday. At the District Court to-day, Charles Crawford was sentenced to two years' imprisonment for biting off a man's nose at Brunnertown. Volunteers Heaphy and Simmons', of the Greymouth Rangers, have qualified to represent the district at the colonial prize firing, with total scores of 89 and 83 respectively. Christchurch, Saturday. Mr. John R. Mabin has completed the average statement of the brig Emperor, which he was engaged to come from Nelson to makeup. It has been printed, .and merchants and others have expressed satisfaction with the knowledge Mr. Mabin has shown in the matter of marine insurance. He has since been engaged by the New Zealand Insurance Co. to revise a statement for the brig Pawn. A public meeting was held last evening to consider the question of funeral reform. It was iufluentially attended, and those present included ministers of nearly every denomination. Sir Cracroft Wilson was in the chair, and on the motion of the Dean of Christchurch, seconded by the Rev. C. Eraser, Presbyterian, it was resolved, " That in view of the desirableness of effecting a reform in the ordinary customs connected with funerals and the wearing of mourning, a committee be appointed for the purpose of collecting information on the subject and considering the best measures to be taken for effecting such a reform, and that they be authorised, if they think fit, to convene a public meeting for the consideration of the subject, or to initiate steps for the formation of a Funaral Reform Association." Those present were appointed a committee, with power to add to their number, to carry out the objects of the resolution. Dunedin, Saturday. A Queenstown telegram to the Star states that private letters from the Palmer diggings are most favorable. A number of our miners have left for them. A public dinner to the Observing Party is on the tapis. Visitors now flock to the Observatory, and receive every attention. News from Melbourne states that The Diver beat Haricot for the Wagga Wagga Cup race of 500 sovs. The Diver won easily, doing the two miles in the extraordinary time of 3min. 33 J sees. For the Sandhurst Cup Lurline only ran fifth, while Calumny, who started a hot favorite for the Epsom Handicap in a field of three, came in last. New Ply-mouth, Saturday. The Armed Constabulary in firing for representatives made the following scores :—Elder, 09 ; G. Ryan, 85 ; W. Ryan, 81. Elder's firing was as follows :—2OO yards, 27 ; 100 yards, 27 ; 500 yards, 21; 600 yards, 21. Mounted men : Ardeu, 76. The new settlement on the Moa block is to be called Milton. On Wednesday last a tree fell across a man falling bush and broke both his logs. Yesterday two men were killed by the falling in of a gravel pit at Hawera. The names of the men were McCarthy and John Sole; The latter had only been married two months.