TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 4772, 8 July 1876, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(rEB TRESS AGENCY.) Napiek, Friday. Simonsen's Opera Company opened last night to a good house, and were very well received. The season promises to be successful. Auckland, Friday. The city everywhere shewed signs of mourning and there was a large attendance at Wilson's funeral. The barque Lady Franklin, owned by Lord and Hughes of Melbourne, got ashore at Kaipara, where she had gone to load timber. It is expected that she will be got off safely. Kich gold has been obtained in the Kapanga reef, Coromandel, for which an English company have been sinking for four years and have spent £40,000. Great excitement prevails there. A Maketu telegram states that a native after removing there got drunk, and smashed in the windows and sashes of the Telegraph

Hotel because the landlord closed the house to him. He injured the landlord and lodgers. Grevmodth, Friday. The Maori brings Captain Webster, of the brig Czarewich, from Bluff to Sydney. The vessel reached to within 500 miles of Sydney, whenshe met with frightful weather. Thepumps got choked, and the vessel was run ashore. She was leaking when she left the Bluff. Tried to make Jackson Bay, but failed. An official enquiry will be held to-day. Christcht/rch, Friday. In the Supreme Court, Joseph Catehpole, charged with arson, was found not guilty. In the case of Matthew Henry Roland, charged with manslaughter, Judge Johnston said the shooting of Annie Henderson by Roland appeared to have been purely misadventure. The Crown prosecutor thereupon declined to offer any evidence, and the prisoner was discharged. This concluded the criminal sessions. At a conference between the Chamber of Commerce and the Lyttelton Borough Council it was decided to prepare a draft Bill for the constitution of a Harbor Board for Lyttelton. There are rumors of more disaffection among the employes on the Canterbury railways. At a meeting of the Licensed Victuallers' Association last night the opinion was unanimously expressed that Mr. Stout's Licensing Bill was obnoxious to the trade, and it was resolved to telegraph to the Canterbury members, asking them to oppose it. Dunedin, Friday. The Tablet of to-day characterises the statement made by certain papers, " that a Rev. Father of the Roman Catholic Church, Dunedin, has thrown off the trammels of the Church, and followed the example of Pere Hycinthe, of Parisian celebrity, by taking to himself a wife," as a notorious, cruel, and shocking lie, and states that actions for libel have been taken against the Evening Star and Tuapeka Times for publishing it. Rivehton, Friday. _ Mr. Robert Aitken's residence, Clifton Station, Waiou, was burnt to the ground. %J. T rs. Aitken and family barely had time to from the flames in their night-clothes. Insured in the "Victoria Co. for £IOO, which does not cover half the loss sustained.