TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4551, 21 October 1875, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(PER press agency.) Auckland, Wednesday. The telegraph to the Kaipara was opened to-day. The first station is at Helensville.

Grahamstown, Wednesday.

An inquest was held this afternoon into the circumstances of the death of Mary Ann Walls, one of the victims of Saturday's tragedy. The coroner and jury were the same as before, and the evidence was similar. The jury returned a verdict of the same tenor as that in the case of Patrick Henry Walls, which is equal to a verdict of wilful murder against Margaret Walls. The unfortunate woman remains in the same condition, preserving a stolid indifference to what is going on, and manifesting not the slightest sign that she has realised the nature of her position or the enormity of the crime which she has committed.

Robert Roycroft, a Waterloo veteran, was buried to-day with military honors, the local volunteers turning out capitally. There were two bands, and the native volunteers formed the firing party. A meeting of the unemployed is talked about, there being no signs of the Waio Karaka mines resuming work. It is stated that three hundred miners are now idle.

New Plymouth, Wednesday.

A public meeting is to bo held to-night for the purpose of urging on the Government the importance of immediately going on with the railway between Sentry Hill and Inglewood. There is already a population of over 700 at Inglewood. Poharama, of Moturoa, died on Monday. Wanganui, Wednesday.

A waggon accident, attended with loss of life, occurred at Kai Iwi yesterday afternoon. A man in the employ of A. Johnstone, settler, was driving along with a load of timber, when it upset down a hill, and the man was killed. Another with him was severely bruised. The man’s name is unknown. An inquest will be held at 3 p.m.

Nelson, Wednesday. A discovery was made to-day that a valuable case of drapery and jewellery, consigned to Milner, draper, per ship Chile, had been opened, and some of its contents, to the value of £l7O, abstracted. The ship was searched, and a quantity of jewellery was found behind a bulkhead. The chief officer having been selling jewellery of that description, was arrested, and remanded till to-morrow morning. Christchurch, Wednesday.

Efforts are being made to hold an interprovincial pigeon-shooting match. It is likely that Canterbury, Otago, Auckland, Wellington, and Wanganui will compete. It is proposed that' each province should choose ten competitors, shooting on their own ground, who will elect their own handicappers. First, second, and third prizes will be given for aggregate scores. Oailuiu, Wednesday,

Mr. Shrimski, the late Mayor of Oamaru, met the editor of the North Otago Times this morning in the street, and demanded an apology for a letter that had appeared in that paper during the election for Mayor two months ago. The editor refused to make any apology. Shrimski then drew a horsewhip, and made a cut at the editor, who seized him by the collar. A struggle ensued, during which there was some rough handling until the combatants were separated. Dunedin, Wednesday.

The Macandrew banquet has been postponed till Wednesday next, to enable Sir George Grey and others to be present. A child belonging to Sergeant Deane, of the North Dunedin police, was burned to death last evening. The child was standing at the fire, when her clothes caught, and she was so severely burned that she died before any assistance could be rendered. She was six years old.