TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4346, 23 February 1875, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

[Per Press Agency.! Auckland, Monday. Yesterday was Hospital Sunday. Over £54 was collected in the several churches, being £lO less than last year. Miners at Ohinemuri are much perturbed about two matters—prospecting claims and the issue of miners’ rights for Ohinemuri One James Smith applied for a prospecting claim to the Superintendent about eighteen months ago, and refceived a promise of six acres- if he could show payable gold. This letter was shown to Sir Donald McLean, Mr. Mackay, and also Dr. Pollen. The two former wished to respect the Superintendent’s promise, but it is reported, that Dr. Pollen refuses. The latter holds the delegated powers. Smith is quite willing to fulfil the condition imposed, and show payable gold before receiving the ground asked for. The difficulty about miners’ rights is how to issue them so as to place all hands on an equal footing for a fair start. It has been arranged by Mackay and the natives that £15,000 shall be the amount chargeable on Ohinemuri out of that revenue.

Mr. Dargavilleis the onlycandidate announced for the Superintendency as yet. The election, however, is certain to be contested. Sir Donald McLean remains in town for a few days. He then proceeds to Wellington in the Luna.

Two seamen of the ship Warwick had a quarrel at two o’clock ou Sunday morning, when one of them stabbed the other five times on the head, and then left him. The wounds are not considered likely to be fatal, although the sufferer is weak from the loss of blood. The assailant is a native of Finland. He escaped, walking quietly away in. view of a constable, who made no effort to capture him. Taubanga, Monday.

Harvest operations are proceeding throughout the Bay district. An enormous yield of wheat is anticipated. ’ Napike, Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Bates opened at the Odd Fellows’ Hall on Saturday evening to a good but not crowded house. They received an enthusiastic reception. ’ The* City Council elected, W. Kentish McLean as Town Clerk, at £l5O a year—not £3OO as originally supposed. Other appointments are postponed. News of a sad accident has been received from Poverty Bay. Mr. Tibbal’s hotel has been burned down, and his wife and two children burned to death. New Plymouth, Monday. At the Government land sale ou deferred payments there was brisk competition, as much as £3 6s. per acre being given. Th« sale by auction for cash started briskly, £3 11s. per acre being bid, but after five allotments had been sold the bidding ceased. The allotments are now open for selection. ' •,

The body of the missing man Street has been washed ashore at Oakura. He is supposed to have fallen into the, river, and been carried out to sea. The schooner Mary Webster sailed for Sydney on Saturday last, with a large cargo of wool, fungus, flax, &c. , Hokitika, Monday. Neardy 10,000 ounces of gold were exported from Westland by the steamer Albion yesterday. ■ The first wool from the southern portion of the province has arrived, thirteen bales having been brought up by. the steamer Waipara. • . . Ohkistchokch, Monday. The Superintendent, in reply to a deputation from the certificated teachers employed in the Government schools, said that in the present uncertainty as to the continuance of provincial institutions, the Government could not ask the Council at the next session to make a grant towards a superannuation fund for teachers or any other provincial servants. A new bi-weekly paper, under the. title of the Wailangi Tribune, is about to be started at Waimate by Mr. Gumming, formerly of the Ross Guardian, and , then of the Hokitika Register. Dunedin, Monday.

The Opera Company terminated a most successful season on Saturday, and left for Invercargill yesterday. At Milton, on Saturday, Margaret Collins, servant to James Goodall, was secretly confined of a dead female child, which was found concealed in her bed with its throat cut. Collins is in custody.

The girl Collins came out to the colony a year ago. She was a Government immigrant. Lately her fellow servants noticed and made remarks about her appearance. On Saturday she spent the greater part of the day in her room, but waited at table at tea-time. Her fellow-servant, who slept in the same room, noticed an alteration in her appearance, and' on searching the room with the police found under the mattrass of Collins’s bed the body of a full-grown female child, evidently recently born. A pair of scissors were found under the toilet-cover. The girl has been ill and delirious ever since. The single girls ex City of Dunedin have readily found employment. The immigrants by the ship Gareloch were relieved from quarantine to-day.