TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4510, 3 September 1875, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(per press agency.) Auckland, Thursday. Anthony Trollope was a passenger by the City of Melbourne bound through to England. Dauis, who jumped overboard from the Hawea, was a photographer, and a son of Davis, photographer, Wellington. He leaves a wife and three children here totally unprovided for. The rash act is attributed to straightened circumstances and depression from religious mania. A petition to the Auckland members, bearing 612 more signatures, was forwarded by the Ladybird. Napier, Thursday. Messrs. Routledge, Kennedy, and Co., sold by auction to-day suburban sections in Napier, 74 and 75, the property of Mr. Williams, subdivided into building allotments ;—Lot 4,2 R, 1 P, £l2O ; lot 5, 1R,33 P, £lO5 ; lot 6,1 P, 24 P, £155 ; lot 7, 1 R, 19 P, £165 ; lot 8. 2 R, 10| P, £2BO. Michael Boylan, ironmonger, has filed a declaration in bankruptcy. The estate is said to be able to pay all liabilities, and more. A warrant has been sent after Constable Axam, lately of the Auckland police force, who left by the brig Moa, for Newcastle, ten days ago, to arrest him on a charge of forging an endorsement of the Police Sergeant, and another to a pronrssory note. Several charges are also pending against him. Dunedin, Thursday. There is nothing doing to-day, being a public holiday. The town is full of country people, who have been conveyed iu by train free. Special trains, loaded, have been running to Clutha to-day. The plans are out for the new Princess Theatre. It will be a handsome and wellventilated building. The stage has a depth of 40ft. The dimen.-ious of the main building, exclusive of vestibule and. stair to dress circle, will be 108 ft. by 66ft., from out to out, the auditorium being 64ft. by 63ft. The height of the ceiling will be about 36ft. from the pit floor.