TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 4983, 13 March 1877, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(pee press agency.) Auckland, Monday. At the Police Court to-day J. K. McCormack, solicitor, appeared to answer a charge of threatening language. The case was dismissed. Grahamstown, Monday. The interim retort! ig for the Moauatairi on Saturday produced 9050z5.' for the week’s crushing. Specimens were not crushed. The Thames volunteer representatives returned on Saturday, but had no formal reception. It is proposed to entertain them at a banquet. Napier, Monday. Messrs. Moorhouse and Booth returned from Mnrimotu to-day. Dr. Bullet went on to Taupo and the hot springs. It is understood that the native difficulty has been adjusted, tbe arrears of rent paid, and the survey started. Gbeymouth, Monday.

An attempt was made yesterday morning at two o’clock to bum down the premites occupied by Laing and wife as a store and dwel-ling-house in Taiaru, immediately opposite where the Greymouth Hotel was burned down. A bundle of wood and rags, saturated with kerosene, had been placed under the 'comer of the house, and fired. Fortunately, the blaze was seen before it got a good hold, and the fire was extinguished without doing much damage. Blenheim, Monday. In the case, Hives v. Jockey Club, to recover the stakes for the cup race, Mr. Gordon Allan appeared for the elub, and Messrs, Rogers and Couolly for the plaintiff. The plaintiff applied for an adjournment; Mr. Allan objected. After a long argument, the case was adjourned to 23rd April, the plaintiff to pay costs, ! Christchurch, Monday. ; In the Resident Magistrate’s Court to-day, Edward Pooley, one of the English cricketers, was charged with assaulting Ralph Donkin. Prior to the cricket match here Donkin made a bet with Pooley; but afterwards, considering it a catch bet, sent a message to Pooley that he cried off. After the match Pooley claimed the amount of the bet, £36. Donkin refused to pay, and Pooley then assaulted him. The parties being separated Donkin went away, Pooley followed, and an altercation ensued, followed by another assault. The evidence was contradictory,as to who was the aggressor in the .second, assault, but the magistrate considered it. proved that Pooley struck the first blow in both assaults, and imposed a fine of £5. ; Edward Pooley and Albert Bramhall, the money-taker for the English cricketers, were then arraigned for wilfully and maliciously destroying clothes and plans, the property of . Ralph Donkin. At 10.30 on the saine night as that on which the assault was committed Donkin’s bedroom at Warner’s Hotel was seen to, be in iss usual order. Shortly after Pooley was seen , to come out of Donkin’s bedroom, and Bramhall was standing close to the door at 11 o’clock. Warner, whose suspicions were aroused, went into the bedroom and found Donkin’s, clothes and a lot of plans torn up. The damage done to the clothes was valued at £35, and the damage to the plans £6O. The Bench committed both men for trial. Bail was accepted—each man in his personal surety for £2OO, and two sureties in £IOO each. : At the Kaiapoi Regatta to-day the champion and junior four-oar races were won by the Christchurch crews, Kaiapoi being second, i The entries for the ram and ewe fair comprise 1860 rams and 1285 ewes—more than double those of last year.