TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4476, 24 July 1875, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(from our own correspondent.) Dunedin, Friday, There is a beautiful row going on among the weekly and one of the up-country papers. The Southern Mercury is pitching into the Bruce Herald ; the latter is pitching into the Guardian and the Mercury, particularly the Mercury. The new weekly has commenced to abuse its venerable contemporary, the Witness, which this week retaliates very warmly, and altogether there is about as pretty a newspaper war brewing as could be desired. To-night a number of ladies and gentlemen went to the house of Walters, the new Mayor. They had received cards of invitation for a supper and ball. ‘The whole thing was a hoax, got up at the expense of Walters by some of his political enemies. The matter has been placed in the hands of the police. , The tender of Fraser and Co., Dunedin, for the construction of seventy-eight railway waggons for the Southland line, has been accepted as the lowest at £7515. There have been 114 persons nominated here as immigrants since the 28th June. A tablet to the memory of the late Wilson Gray is to be erected at the First Church. (per press agency.) Auckland, leriday. Intelligence has reached town that woman has been murdered by her husband at llangiriri. No particulars to hand. Glover’s hotel and hall, Coromandel, were burned to the ground. Very little was saved. The insurances are as follows :—The hotel, in the South British Company, £3OO ; hall, in same office, £SO; in National, £IOO ; do stock, £l5O. The proprietor is a loser of everything. The lire originated in the bedrooms. The boarders narrowly escaped in getting down stairs. The following particulars of the murder at Rangiriri were received by telegraph from Mercer ;—The natives reported to the police here that a Maori woman had been murdered by her husband (named Ropoutu) three miles from Rangiriri. Her body was said to be horribly mutilated, being nearly cut in two by a tomahawk. The body was buried by the Maoris. The murderer escaped to the backcountry, pursued by the natives and the mounted police, who started to investigate the matter. The brigantine Ael encountered a gale off Wangareh, and lost her foretopmast. One of the crew, named Baker, was washed overboard. The Llewellyn, the Auckland Steam Packet Company’s now vessel, for the Fiji trade, has much more limited- accommodation than was expected. A better vessel could have been supplied by the Auckland builders. A shocking accident has occurred at the Manukau Heads, John Burns, working at the sawmills, fell on the tramway with his arm across the rails. A car with a log of four tons passed over the limb, fearfully smashing the bone and leaving the arm hanging by the akin. News from Tairua continues to be favorable. Now discoveries have been made in various parts of the fields. The roughness and inaccessibility of the country nearly caused the loss of the life of Walter Williamson, the pioneer of the Thames goldfields, who was discovered half dead and unable to speak from cold and exposure, having been benighted. Alexandra, Friday. _ The flood has stopped all communication in tho up country. There are no canoes coming down, but lota of fat cattle have come in. Nelson, Friday An accident in the Takaka River, Golden Bay, resulted in the drowning of two young men, Allen and Schctour, both unmarried. The Phoebe sails North to-night. Christchurch, Friday. At the Resident Magistrate’s Court to-day Christopher Walker Worger, late steward of the Canterbury Club, was committed for trial on two charges of embezzling money belonging _ to the club. The total defalcations were said to be over £IOOO. Dunedin, Friday. Some interesting particulars are published regarding the progress of the railways on tho Clutha line. The Waihola bridge is finished

and the rails laid. The line through the Chain Hill tunnel is expected to be finished about the second week in August, and the engine will run through to the Clutha. The line will be opened on the Ist September for traffic. The Tuapeka line, with the exception of the Manuka Creek tunnel and the tunnel at the Round Hill, is ready for the rails. There are only twenty-nine chains of the Deborah Bay tunnel tobegonethrough, out of a total length of sixtythree chains. Contractors will be through about April next, being six months, before the contract time. Work on the Purakanui contract is going on rapidly. Job Wain and Co. have 250 men at work. The survey of the North line from Pleasant River to Moeraki is finished, and also from Blueskin to the Maori Kaik at Waikouaiti. It is rumored that Horace Bastings Mull contest the seat for Wallace vacant by the death of Mr. Webster. He has been strongly requisitioned. Jock Graham, a notorious character, is also likely to run for it. He has great support from the diggers at Orepuki, who could nearly put him in. Invercargill, Friday. A slight shock of earthquake which lasted about a minute was felt here this morning. Robert Cameron, of Winton, is announced to oppose McNeill and Bathau for the representation of Wallace.