TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4439, 11 June 1875, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(from our own correspondent.) Dunedin, Thursday, Mrs. Haley was to-day charged with being drunk. The Bench dismissed the case, and recommended her to go to the Refuge, in order that some benevolent ladies might take up her case. A man named Watson, living at St. Bathau's, "was frozen to death while on his 'way home. He is supposed to have been under the influence of liquor at the time. At the licensing' meeting to-day the Bench warned some of the applicants not to keep a store in connection with a publichouse. Mr. Hyde Harris, solicitor, said it would be well if the different liquors were tested at tho Custom House before being sold, as there was no doubt there was a great deal of adulteration in them before they arrived. Mr. Hawthorne will be buried to-morrow. (per press agency.) Auckland, Thursday. Alluding to the stoppage of the £3200, capitation grant due to the province by the General Government, to pay interest on construotedrailways, the Crosssays: "The Pro vincial Treasurer communicated with tho General Government, and showed that as the line to Mercer had been opened only some twelve days when the announcement of the stoppage was made, it was impossible that the amount of interest accruing in that period could reach such a Sum as that due to the province for capitation. To Mr. Wood's announcement the reply sent was that the interest charged against the province had been steadily accumulating ever since the opening of the Onehunga branch in the early part of 1874. Yet, during all the time that has since lapsed not one word was said of the intention to make this charge. For nearly eighteen months silence was prcsei'ved, and the capitation money regularly paid. The General Government are totally wrong, whichever side they take. The Provincial Treasurer and Council were misled by the laches of the General Government. The Provincial Treasurer has been suddenly brought up by a round turn, and they have good grounds of grievance against the General Government, which must not now be permitted to leave the province in a financial lurch as awkward as it was unexpected." Napier, Thursday. The Omaranui case, Paora and Rewi v. Sutton, is concluded. The verdict—no fraud by Sutton, nor any mutual mistake—is substantially a verdict far Sutton, or against Paora. The point will be argued as to Rewi's share of the land. The immigrants ex Countess of Kintore landed all well, after a quick passage of eightytwo days. There were two deaths (children) and one birth. One girl, who suffered from seasickness all the voyage, has been removed to the hospital. There is no other sickness. The surgeon of the ship is' the son of a very old settler (Captain Newman). The Provincial Council meets to-morrow. In the Supreme Court tho case Queen on prosecution of William Douglas v. Pene Tu Pune and other Maoris, for forcible entry on the land of P. Douglas, was tried, and a verdict of not guilty returned. G. Taiusbury passed his legal examination and was admitted to the Bar of New Zealand. A New Zealand war medal was presented to Henaro Tamoana, with suitable observations, by Major Withers. Dunedin, Thursday. Tho Guardian has had to give up the name of the writer of a letter signed "Tudor," reflecting on a member of the legal profession. Copies of the letter have been sent to the ludges. The writer is Mr. James Smith, barrister; and the lawyer alluded to is Mr. J. Macassey. Tho lettor states that the Times jbtaiued its information relative to the WardShapman telegram in a discreditable manner, by a certain member of the legal fraternity, ivho was subsequently discovered to have de- , icended to the consummate baseness of hiring : spies to dog the footsteps of Judge Ward in lis private life. The matter has caused coniidcrable stir. :