TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4463, 9 July 1875, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(from our own correspondents.) Auckland, Thursday. Information has been received by Father Walter McDonald that a cablegram to Sydney before the Mikado left, announced that Dr. Croke, Roman Catholic Bishop of Auckland, now at Home, had been appointed Archbishop of Cashel, Ireland. Australian telegrams per Mikado state that the Postmaster-General announced in tho New South Wales Parliament on 29th ult. the completion of tho San Francisco and cable contracts. The Sydney Morning Herald says tho maximum subsidy was fixed privately at £90,000, and placing the successful tender just within that. Earl Carnarvon’s despatch, asking the Victorian Parliament to repeal the Act empowering the Governor to pardon criminals after two years’ imprisonment, on condition of their leaving the colony, formed the subject of a warm debate in tho Victorian Parliament. Tho Government stated that a measure would be introduced to give effect to it, as matter of experience, and in justice to other colonies. (PER PRESS AGENCY.) Auckland, Thursday.

The charge of forcible entry by a Thames landlord into his own property, for the purpose of ejecting a tenant in possession, was heard in the Supreme Court to-day, and a ■verdict of guilty was returned. The Judge said the accused no doubt had been badly advised, and fined the landlord £ls. The person who assisted him was fined Is. CraiISTOHDKOir, Thursday. In the Supreme Court this morning Frederick Pavitt, late steward and church property trustee, charged with embezzlement _ of church funds, was sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment. Charles James, late treasurer of an Odd Fellows’ lodge, charged with larceny as a bailee of lodge funds, was acquitted. The Judge said this indictment could not be sustained, as no instructions had been given prisoner to pay the particular amount mentioned in the indictment into the bank. He said the Crown Prosecutor was not to blame for the acquittal of the prisoner, as in the present state of the law the treasurer of a friendly society could rob such societies without rendering himself liable to imprisonment. Evans Brown, for Ashley, met the electors last night, and delivered a speech in favor of the abolition of provinces. A vote of confidence in him was passed. At a meeting of the Board of Governors of the Canterbury College last night, there was a

long discussion pn the charges of a local architect, Armstrong, for plans and specifications for the new public library buildings. It appears that Armstrong was instructed to prepare plans for a building, to cost at most £6OOO, but the lowest tender was £10,920, and the Board was unable to go on with the building. Armstrong then sent in a bill for £275, being 24 per cent, on the lowest tender, asserting that it was in accordance with the scale of charges adopted by the Canterbury Association of Architects. It was decided to see if this was correct. All the members of the Board spoke strongly against the charge, and the general feeling is in favor of resisting it by law. O amaeu, Thursday. The Northern Pastoral and Agricultural Association here have agreed to co-operate with the Southland Association to endeavor to obtain an annual grant from the Assembly to all such societies in the colony. Mr. Cuthbertson is to move the matter in the House. A petition has been sent up here from Dunedin for signature, against Legislative action before the general election, re abolition. The petition is not favorably received. An application, with thirty-two signatures, has been forwarded to Wellington, tendering the services of the Oamaru Volunteer Artillery. Five competitive schemes of waterworks have been received. The competitor’s are —Barr & Oliver, Dunedin ; Hardy-John-ston, Lees & Moore, and Forester, Oamaru. The Waitaki, Kakauui, and Oamaru creeks are the suggested sources of supply. The estimates are from £19,000 to £BB,OOO. Dunedin, Thursday.

Mr. Morris, who was a passenger by the Taranaki last Saturday, proceeds Home, via San Francisco, to open and take the management of the branch of the Colonial Bank in London. In the case of Herbert and the Waste Lands Board, on appeal—the case in which an interim injunction was granted by the Judge in Chambers on Monday last, restraining the Board from dealing with lands in the Herriott Hundreds—Mr. Macassey moved for a rule nisi. The object of the rule was to call upon Donald Reid, Horace Bastings, and Henry Clarke, members of the Waste Lands Board, to show cause why they should not be attached and committed to the public gaol, Dunedin, for a breach of the aforesaid interim injunction. The rule was granted, and made returnable on Wednesday next. The present annual income of the City Council is £123,692 (sic), and liabilities £109,188, including £2458 due to the Bank of New Zealand. At the City Council meeting last night Mr. Kitchie, as attorney for Mr. Hankey, wrote, offering to sell the gasworks and plant to the city for £60,000, to be taken in Corporation debentures, bearing interest at 6 per cent, at par, delivery to be given in September, A special meeting of Council will be held on Friday, to consider the matter. Bates was a great success as Hamlet last night.