TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4400, 27 April 1875, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

[PROM OUK OWN CORRESPONDENTS.] Auckland, Monday. Bishop Crane, K.C., of Sandhurst, preached yesterday at St. Patrick's. He left per Macgregor for Sydney. An extensive fire in Wairoa has destroyed a store, farm out-houses, &c., belonging to J. White. Shares in the prospecting claim at Tairua are selling well. A Miners' Licenses Committee has been appointed at Tairua to watch the interest of the miners in re leasing system. Mr. Yesey Stewart writes to the Echo that the immigrants for Katikati, from Ireland, will bring from £IOOO to £4OOO each. He says the assistance received from the Government has been of the most negative character. He hopes to sail from Belfast about the last day of April, with thirty-five families and about a hundred single women. He has applied for two ships, which he and Mr. Cochrane will undertake to fill. He says if the second ship is not granted it will be a loss of immigrants to Auckland and the colony generally. Most of the emigrants desire to go in the same ship, to the same place. In the first shipment will be included families from Tyrone, Down, Antrim, Armagh, Cavan, Fermanagh, Dublin, Kerry, King's County, and Cork. If the Katikati settlement succeeds well, it will lead to an enormous emigration to New Zealand from all parts of Ireland. Fifteen familes, all small capitalists, hope to follow in September. Yesey Stewart says he could have found emigrants for fifty thousand acres as easily as ten thousand. He only delivered half a dozen lectures. A ship could be filled at Belfast every three months. The Queensland Government, he says, appreciate the Irish emigration, and are stealing a march on New Zealand. The Katikati settlers will bring out prize shorthorns, besides rams and poultry. Emigrants will expect the assistance of land surveyors, and temporary barracks, and raupo whares built. Each family is willing to contribute five pounds towards the expenses of the latter. Sailed—Taranaki, for the South. !

Dunedin, Monday. A man named Arthur Cheston was charged, to-day, at the Riverton Police Court, with attempting to commit a serious offence on a woman named Parker, residing in South Riverton. Three women were crossing the Apanama bridge together. The prosecutrix was the last of the three. The prisoner pulled her back, threw her down, and tried to commit the offence. He was remanded for eight days. A fire has occurred in Riverton. Sixty bags of oats'were burned. Fred Gray, a boy nine years of age, was committed to the training, school to-day. Several convictions for sly-grog selling took place to-day... In each case a. fine of £2O was imposed. Alex. Grassan, charged with committing a serious assault on Jessie Jeffrey, was remanded for eight days. The woman is in a very bad state. What were regarded as her dying depositions were taken on Saturday. At a special meeting of the Dunedin shareholders of_ the Greymouth Coal Company, held this evening, dissatisfaction was expressed at the report from the head office. A number of immigrants by the ship William Davie were engaged to-day—ploughmen at £52 ; women from £2O to £3O per annum ; married couples at £SO. Thh'ty single men are to be sent to Oamaruon the arrival of the Timaru. The Hon. Major Atkinson visited the boys’ and girls’ High School to-day ; also the Middle School,' the Botanical Gardens, and the reservoir. He expressed himself pleased with the educational establishments., [Pee Press Agency.] . Auckland, Monday. The Rev. Charles Clark’s sermon in aid of the Ladies’ Benevolent Society realised £4O. The hall was crowded notwithstanding a drenching rain. Captain McKenzie, of the steamer Southern Cross, was experimenting killing fish under water, when a charge exploded in his hand, blowing his fingers off. The Macgregor took no passengers for Sydney. The cricketers have convened a meeting to co-operate with Dunedin and Canterbury in bringing over an Australian team. The papers by the mail contain the judgment of the Judges in the Cospatrick inquiry. The Court were unanimous in opinion that the fire originated in the fore-hold, which was accessible from the fore-peak by removing two boards in the bulkhead. The Court could come to no other conclusion than that some of the crew or the emigrants must have taken advantage of this access to the fore-hold for the purpose of plundering the cargo, and that, using naked lights or matches, they must have set fire to straw or other inflammable matter, which extended to the pitch, &0., near. The Court was satisfied that the Cospatrick had the number of boats required by law, but regretted that when the first alarm was given no steps were taken to have the boats in readiness. The Court recommended that in all passenger vessels a strong bulkhead should be erected between the fore-peak and the main hold, to prevent access to cargo. They also considered that the practice of stowing boats bottom up was objectionable. The s.s. Taranaki was detained by the Hon. Mr. Reynolds until 12.30- to-day, for the mails per Hero for,the Southern provinces. Grahamstown, Monday. The crushing Of the two-ton lot of stone from the Ohinemuri Prospectors’ Claim has been completed, with a yield of 4oz. Sdwts. of retorted gold. The single ton has not yet been completed. Sir George Grey goes to Ohinemuri tomorrow. Nineteen deaths, were registered - here last week ; more than the average for a month during, ordinary seasons. Measles and fever are spreading. There were five funerals of children yesterday, two being of members of one family, which lost an infant a fortnight ago. £360 was paid on Saturday for fifty-five shares in the Tairua. Gold Mining Company (Prospectors). Subsequently, fifty shares were purchased for £IOO. The road to Tairua has been rendered almost impassable by the laterains. Wanganui, Monday. The Supreme Court was opened to-day. Henry Lament Warne, for forgery, was found gtlilty, but recommended to mercy; sentence was deferred. John Ireland, about sixteen years old, was charged with forgery and uttering, and found guilty ; sentence deferred. Owen Igoe, accused of a murderous assault, was found guilty, and sentenced to eighteen months’ imprisonment. Ireland’s case exposed most corrupt conduct. He asked another boy to fill out a cheque for £lO, and as he could not write told him to get it done, and another boy wrote it, and Ireland gave the first boy £6 for it, which was innocently accepted with thanks. Nelson, Monday.. Upon reconsideration, it was decided to proceed with , the iuterprovincial cricket match this morning. Westland second in-nings—thirty-four. The Nelson second innings resulted thus : Eden, b. Bowen, 0 ; Halliday, 1.b.w., b. Garwood, 0 ; . Fowler, b. Bowen, 3; Cross, b. Bowen, 2 ; C. Knapp, run out, 0 ; Wix, b. Bowen, 0 ; Turncliffe, b. Garwood, 0 ; Knapp, run out, 4 ; Hole, c. McGregor, b. Garwood, 5; Coles, not out, 5 ; Speed, not out, 15 ; byes, 3 ; total, 30. There was great excitement towards the close. Seven wickets had fallen for 9 runs, and 8 for 17, and 9 for 24, when Speed and Coles made a stand and won the game. • - Christchurch, Monday. The Governor made a round of visits to the public institutions on Saturday.- ■ A cricket match between eleven jockeys in costume and eleven bookmakers, for a dinner, is arranged to come off to-morrow. . The Catholics intend giving a public reception to Bishop Redwood, who is expected overland from the West Coast on Wednesday. Complaints are made in many quarters at the decision of the stewards respecting the protest against: the Phoebe colt in the. Flying Handicap. The stewards admit that the evidence showed the jostle to have been purely accidental, but say they were bound to allow the protest without consideration as to whether the jostle was an accidental one or not. A correspondent writes to the Press on the subject as follows : —“I can assure you, sir, that the great authority in England-in racing matters, Admiral Roue, has decided on many occasions that accidental cannoning is not foul riding, and should not disqualify the winning horse, and I would diffidently bring under your notice a similar occurrence which took place at Wangaratta, the last race meeting in December last, when Haricot (the Melbourne Cup winner), cannoned against The Diver when close to the winning-post, and thereby deprived The Diver winning the race, Mr. Lloyd (owner of The Diver) being too much of a sportsman to enter a protest.” Two auction sales of racing stock were held to-day, but no sales were effected. Eio-ht splendid two-year-olds belonging to Mr. Redwood, including the Phmbe colt, were offered in one lot, but were passed in at 1400 guineas. The eight colts were then offered singly. The Phcebe colt was passed in at 400 guineas, and the rest scarcely elicited a bid. Of the other racing stock offered, scarcely one obtained a bid. Tambourini was passed in at 150 guineas. The settling passed off to-day satisfactorily. Lady Normanby held a reception to-day at the Clarendon Hotel It was well attended. The Governor takes a trip on the Northern line of railway to-morrow, to inspect the new Ashley bridge, and to receive addresses from the towns of Kaiapoi and Rangiora. The first portion of the Racecourse and Southbridge branch railway was opened to the River Selwyn, a distance of eighteen miles, today. -■■■-•■ Dunedin, Monday. There are great complaints of want of water. The waterworks reservoir is nearly dry. The Ladybird came to Dunedin jetty this morning. She is the first of the company’s steamers that has done so. R. W. Shepherd, for sly grog selling, waa fined £2O and costs.

The Timaru brought for the Acclimatisation Society a box containing a thousand chancre's from the Cumberland Lakes. These were placed in the society’s hatching-box, Dunedin, last night, and it was found that about three hundred were healthy. Several fish were hatched this morning. It is possible that these will be the only fish obtained from the Timaru a shipment, as all the salmon ova cgga are expected to be bad. , , ... In the case of Song Ti, charged with a murderous assault on another Chinaman, Mr. Smith, counsel for the defence, pleaded that the prisoner was under the influence of opium and not responsible for his actions. Iho; medical man stated that the use of opium pro-, duced maddening effects in some cases. Ihc jury brought in a verdict of guilty. The Chief Justice charged the jury iu accordance with a case cited in support of Smith’s contention, but at the same time stated he regarded the precedent as a very bad and unreasonable one, and would bring the question before the Court of Appeal. _ , Port Chalmers, Monday. Six cases of salmon ova (part of the Timaru s cargo) have arrived from the Bluff, hears are entertained as to its vitality. •