TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4306, 8 January 1875, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

[Press Telegraph Agenov.] ' • Auckland, Thursday. The settling for the summer meeting of the Kaciug Club took place last evening. - The following were the winnings of the first horses: —Delamain’s Templeton, £'loo ; Belle, £6o— Tui, £SO; Parawheuua, £6o—total, £275,; Crummer’s Never Miss, £IOO ; Marks’ Haroy, £IOO ; Euckland’s Kate, £SO ; Walter’s Yatteriua, £4O; Abbott’s Stranger, £ls; Leonard’s Warwick, £lO ; Taylor’s Warwick, £lO ; Kelly’s Dainty, £lO. Total, £IO7O. The Omahau, from New Caledonia, reports that two Communists escaped in a boat of the barque Island City. They were pursued by the pilot boat, but got free. They were last seen by a passing vessel steering for Norfolk Island. They are probably the same men who arrived in Australia recently. GuahamStown, Thursday. D. M. Mclntyre, an old Otago miner, who has been prospecting at Ohinemuri, reports having found alluvial gold, with fair prospects, but not rich. Mclntyre and a party were turned off by the native police, acting under orders from Mr. James Maokay. Wanganui, Thursday. A girl, twelve years of age, in the service of Mrs. Macbeth, of Greymouth, has been accidentally drowned in .a well at Ilangitikei, Nelson, Thursday. In the Supreme Court to-day, in the case of Reynolds' [Knyvott ?] v. O’Conor, for false imprisonment, the defendant paid £5 into court. The jury gave a verdict for plaintiff, with damages of £IOO. Chbistchubcb, Thursday. At the Supremo Court -to-day, Whitmore, charged with embezzlement, was found not guilty. John Buchanan, for horse-stealing, was sentenced to twelve months’ imprisonment. The Hon. C. O. Bowen addressed the electors of Bangiora yesterday, and was well received. A motion, pledging the meeting to use every effort to secure his return, was agreed to. ' Dunedin, Thursday. The Grand Jury have thrown out the bill against Jane Ann Henderson and Ellen Burke, charged with robbery from the person, the prosecutor not appearing. This closes the criminal business. Eight out of the nine men who represent Otago (McLean being absent) at the intercolonial competition, fired a like number of No. 1 Company in a friendly match, at two five, and six hundred yards, making 481 to 482 by No. 1. The Tapanui and Tuapeka Jockey Clubs have disqualified Captain Hutcheson’s mare Mabel. Warden Stratford has summoned Dr. Douglas, Queenstown, for a breach of the Act in not obeying a aubpeena to attend a coroner’s inquest at Cardrona. The case was heard today at Arrowtown, before an independent Bench of Magistrates, and dismissed, with £5 10s. costs. A rumor is current at Queenstown of a reported fresh discovery of gold at Pyke’s Creek, on the West Coast.