TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 4770, 6 July 1876, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(per press agency.) Auckland, Wednesday. W. O. Wilson, proprietor of the New Zealand Herald, died at five this evening, aged 66 years. Grahamstown, Wednesday. The borough election resulted in a majority of four votes for Dr. Kilgour. The numbers were —Kilgour, 277 ; Curtis, 273. A scrutiny was demanded on the part of Curtis. Alexandra, Wednesday. Tawhiao and party, with Major Te Wheoro, reached Kangitikei to-day, travelling slowly, feasts being prepared at all the settlements from Kuiti. They proceed to Aoteroa, beyond Wharepapa, where a large meeting is to be held. New Plymouth, Wednesday. The Herald publishes another of Grant’s letters, in which he says the Government and its agents are trying to damage his fair fame and credit. He says Dunedin is literally swarming with fallen. women. There are not less than 500 there. Nelson, Wednesday. Mr. Charles Elliott, Immigration Officer, and the original proprietor of the Nelson Examiner, dropped dread this morning while going to port to proceed on board the Camperdown. Christchurch, Wednesday. The Supreme Court was occupied twelve hours yesterday with the trial of William Townsend for manslaughter in a midwifery case. Verdict, guilty. Prisoner was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment, with hard labor. Dunedin, Wednesday. Arthur K. Moule, charged with forging a deed in connection with some Victorian property, and with aiding and abetting a lad 11 years of age in the forgery, was sentenced to two years to-day. A proposition in the City Council to alter the female franchise in the Municipal Bill, so that only women aged thirty, and possessing rateable property of £SO annually, could vote, was lost by the casting vote of the Mayor. A charge against Coleman, the bookmaker, of vagrancy, was dismissed, though the Bench thought there was strong presumptive evidence that he did not earn his livelihood honestly.