TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4532, 29 September 1875, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(per press agency.) ' i ■ • Auckland, Tuesday. The schooner Canterbury was sold for £650 to Thomas Niccol. Francis Dyer bas been committed for trial for stealing a number of articles from the place where she was employed as nursegirl twelve months ago. She has since been living at Napier, but returned to Auckland a short time ago. At Coromandel the strong box of the Tokatea Company was broken into, and 250 ounces of amalgam, valued at £IBO, stolen. The thieves are not yet captured. New Plymouth, Tuesday. In the intercolonial football match, Taranaki won the toss, when Dunnett lacked off for Auckland, and in the first ten minutes made half a point by a forcedown. Drew, of Taranaki, made a goal by a splendid kick. At one o’clock the scores stood : Auckland, half a point; Taranaki, nine points. The Aucklanders are too light for the Taranaki players. The game was not finished when the messenger left. Taubanga, Tuesday. Last night Mr. T. A. Tole, Waste Lands Commissioner, was entertained at a dinner by Vesey Stewart and special settlers. The principal settlers were invited, and the affair was a great success. Vesey Stewart and a large number of specials leave this morning for Kati Kati, to take up permanent abode there. Blenheim, Tuesday. Another strong shook of earthquake was felt here at 1.35 this morning. It was accompanied by prolonged vibrations. The direction was south-west and north-east. Dunedin, Tuesday. “Check and Counter Check,” a new drama, from the pen of J. G. Utting, of the Guardian, was produced last night. It was a great success. Invercargill, Tuesday. The nine immigrants who left the Quarantine Station were brought before the Resident Magistrate to-day, under the 42nd clause of the Public Health Act. The information was afterwards amended, so as to charge the accused as persons who had escaped from the Quarantine Station while being liable to being confined there, and being so confined. The accused were fined 20s. each, and Court fines and costs amounting to £lO, which were paid by Mr. George Rowes, saloon passenger by the Christian MoAusland.