TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4462, 8 July 1875, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) Dunedin, Wednesday.

At the meeting of the Waste Lands Board to-day, it was resolved to move to have the injunction against the sale of the land at the Herriott Hundreds on the deferred.payment system set aside. Bates is playing “Hamlet” for his benefit to-night. A child named Brady was burned to death at Temuka, near Timaru. The mother had gone out of the room for a few minutes, leaving the child on the chair by the fire. When she returned she found that the child had fallen off the chair before the fire, and had been literally roasted to death. An inquest will be held to-morrow.

The new weekly paper starts on the 17th instant.

In the mail by the Albion via Suez there were despatched to Great Britain via Southampton 3470 letters, 6752 newspapers; via Brindisi, 1078 letters and 52 newspapers; to Australia, 1610 letters and 1355 newspapers. By the San Francisco mail, on Saturday, -1243 letters and -7220 newspapers were despatched. It is expected that the criminal sittings of the Supreme Court will conclude to-night. Judge Johnston has been working like a horse. The Guardian to-day threatens to take legal proceedings against the Bruce Herald if it again copies their special telegrams without acknowledgment, and advises respectable' journals to combine to put down this sort of thing, which is now becoming far too prevalent. (I’KPI PRESS AGENCY.) Grahamstown, Wednesday. Two tons five hundredweights of Tairua Company’s stone yielded 83 Jozs. of gold. Two trial lots from other reefs in the claim yielded at the rate of 4Jozs. and 9ozs. per ton. The tribute party in the Old Inverness claim got 3970z5. 14dwts. melted gold from 30 tons of stone. Auckland, Wednesday.

James Conley, a waterman, and his wife, son, and a young girl, were remanded to-day on a charge of arson, with intent to defraud the New Zealand-Insurance Company. A fire was discovered in their house last night, having commenced in a box of old clothes and rags saturated with kerosene. Another fire was lit on the top of the drawers, and other combustibles were prepared for lighting in the back room. The fire was extinguished after burning the lining of the house. All the accused were absent when the fire was discovered but the little girl, who made contradictory statements as to its origin. The building was insured for £2OO.

Napier, Wednesday.

A thousand acres of heavily timbered bush land at Hampden was offered for sale to-day by Mr. K. Miller ; a good site for a sawmill. There was no offer. The Thistle Hotel at Pakahu was sold by Lyndon for £3BO. Christchurch, Wednesday.

A man named Charles Paddock was injured by the explosion of a flask of gunpowder yesterday. A neighbor heard the report, and going inside, found Paddock lying on the floor insensible, with his face burned, and whiskers and eyebrows singed off. The stove was shattered to pieces, and the windows blown out. Paddock had been desponding some time, and will not say whether he put the flask in himself or not.

The weights for the Handicap Steeplechase are—P. Campbell’s Tommy Dodd, aged, 12ot, 71133.; Kay’s Medora, aged, 12s. 41bs.; Hedge’s Ivanhoe, aged, list. 21bs.; Craddock’s Muscatel, aged, list.; Markey’s Mousetrap, aged, lOst. 71bs.; O’Brien’s Kapai, aged, 10st.; Britain’s Koyalty, aged, lOst. lOlbs.; James Campbell's Speculation, aged, lOst. Distance, three miles and a half, over fair hunting country. The loss of £2500 at the late Dunedin fire was the Standard’s, and was only partly reinsured with the Transatlantic. Frederick Pavitt, late Church steward, was brought up at the Supreme Court this morning, on a charge of embezzling sundry amounts from the Church funds, and found guilty. Sentence was deferred. . Dunedin, Wednesday. Walter Vauso, late Postmaster at Alexandra, charged with embezzlement, was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment, without hard labor. The prisoner had previously borne a good character.