TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4514, 8 September 1875, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(FROM OCR OWN CORRESPONDENTS.) Auckland, Tuesday. Hugh Hart Lusk writes to the papers endeavoring to prove that by separation the North Island would obtain revenues amounting to £890,000, and liabilities for interest on public services, &c., on present basis, amounting to £512,207, leaving a balance of £378,000 for immigration and public works annually. He maintains that the money coming to the North Island would be £168,000 a year more than that under Major Atkinson’s proposal. Dunedin, Tuesday. _ James White was committed for trial this morning on a charge of burglary. Ah Chew, a Chinaman, for assaulting another Chinaman” with an axe, was committed for trial. The Ciutha line is being very largely used. At Queenstown to-day a young girl named Kate Walders was committed for trial on a charge of concealment of birth. It is supposed she has thrown the child into the Shotover River. A mysterious case of poisoning has taken place at Naseby, the victim being a child named Jas. Stewart, three years of age. The child had been eating biscuits in a neighbor’s house. The inquest has been adjourned in order to have the stomach’s contents analysed in Dunedin.

(per press agency.) Auckland, Tuesday. The fire brigade held a torchlight procession last night. It was very successful. There was a supper afterwards. Another batch of signatures to the petition to Sir George Grey and other members, calling on them to resist the Government word by word, was despatched by the Taupe to-day. There are 368 signatures, making a total of 1855 electors. The Harbor Board received eight, tenders for the railway wharf. The lowest, that of John Taylor, of Auckland, for £19,499, was accepted. Napier, Tuesday. At an inquest held here to-day on the body of James Main, who was found drowned in the Waipawa River, the jury returned a verdict of “ Found drowned.” . A meeting has been held at Poverty Bay, at which a resolution in favor of abolition was unanimously passed. Hokitika, Tuesday. In the Supreme Court to-day, Samuel Pennington, charged with larceny, was sentenced to a month’s imprisonment. The libel case, Churohus (Hokitika) v. Wagner (of Christ-' church), was settled out of court. Dunedin, Tuesday. ; The body of a man, supposed to be named Charles Daly, has been found at Blueskin in a decomposed state. It is thought he died from exhaustion in the bush two months ago. He was an old pensioner in the 81st Regiment' of foot. The question of the validity of night licenses is at length finally settled. At the quarterly sitting of the Licensing Court to-day, most of our publicans applied for and were granted night licenses. The applications were made under the Provincial Ordinance passed at the late sitting of the Provincial Council, and recently assented to by the Governor. A fatal coach accident occurred this afternoon. As Steadman’s West Taieri coach passed Saddle Hill toll-bar, one of the horses shied and toppled the coach over a 20ft. bank. Henry Steadman, the driver, received serious internal injuries, and died at 2 p.m. There were no passengers in the coach. Kate Walders has been: committed for trial at the Queenstown District Court, for concealment of birth. She confessed to the doctor and matron of the gaol that she had been delivered of a child. No doubt exists, from the statements made—though there is no admissible evidence —that the body was thrown into the Shotover. The accused is admitted to bail. Invercargill, Tuesday. [ The inside wall of the lumber-room of the Prince of Wales Hotel was found on fire at one o’clock on Saturday morning. It was discovered before the fire had much hold, and extinguished. A young man named McGlashan, who was employed as barman in the hotel, has been apprehended on suspicion of causing the fire. The coroner’s inquest held yesterday returned an open verdict. MoGlaahau was brought up before the Resident Magistrate to-day, when the Inspector applied for a rehearing in the Magistrate’s Court, on the ground of not beiug satisfied with the result of the inquiry. More evidence being adduced, the application was granted. The case will be heard on Thursday.