TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 4773, 10 July 1876, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(PER PRESS AGENCY.) Christchurch, Saturday. A woman named Sheeau has been committed for trial for murdering her infant child by drowning. Mrs. Sheeau said that during a sudden attack of faintness she let the child fall into a bucket of water, and was powerless to remove it till too late. Medical evidence went to show no marks whatever on the child, and that it could not possibly have fallen into the bucket. Mrs. Sheean only had two children before this, and both were killed, one being smothered in bed, the other drowned in a well. The Press this morning says it hears that an action for breach of promise of marriage has been commenced against a well-known squatter, in which large damages are claimed. It will come on for trial shortly, when some amusing particulars will be disclosed. New Plymouth, Saturday. Charges of dynamite were placed under the Batterson wreck at Waitara and fired. The sight was grand, a volume of water being thrown to a great height. On the second charge being fired a large plate of iron and pieces of timber were thrown over 100 ft. into the air. The third shot fired had a good effect, and little of the wreck was then visible. On Monday the imbedded portion will beblown up. '