TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 4808, 19 August 1876, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(per pbess agency.) Auckland, Friday. The large schooner, bottom upwards, reported as off Amuri, is believed to be the Auckland schooner Clematis. All lives are supposed to be lost. Clarke, captain, Campbell mate, a crew of four, and one passenger named Giles, a butcher, comprised the whole. The captain has a wife and four children, and Giles has a wife in Auckland. The vessel is insured in the New Zealand office for £I2OO. The cargo is uninsured, and owned by Cashmore and Robinson. The new Theatre Royal has been leased to John Hall for two years. The Star Queen, from Lyttelton to-day, reports fearfully heavy southerly weather for five days from the 3rd inst., and having passed a quantity of timber at S.E. of East Cape. Napier, Friday.

John Langhan, against whom a coroner's jury yesterday returned a verdict of manslaughter, was brought up before Mr Sealy, R.M., to-day, and charged, on the information of the Inspector of Police, with the wilful murder of his wife. The case was remanded until Wednesday. CHRrSTCHURCH, Friday. The Acclimatisation Society expect to hatch about 20,000 trout this season. The Provincial Government have bought the extra piece of land required for public buildings, thus removing the last point of dispute between them and the General Government, who will now have plans prepared forthwith.

Hokitika, Friday.

Three claims have struck good payable gold on the other side of the creek at Kumara. It is rumored that a new lead of coarse gold has been struck.