TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 4990, 21 March 1877, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(FEB PRESB AGENCY.) Auckland, Tuesday. John McGrath, a new arrival per Jessie Osborne, has been arrested for a brutal assault upoß his wife. The inhabitants of Arch Hill have passed ! a resolution against a proposed public-house in that district, and appointed a committee to take stepß to prevent the issue of a license. The ratepayers of Parnell have passed a resolution calling upon their representative in the Eden County Council to vote for hanging up the Counties Act. .Matilda- Davidson, aged nineteen, leaped from a window. 20ft. high during an attack of hysterical mania. She has since been committed to the Lunatic' Asylum. The Bench regretted that ■ there was not a 'more suitable place for persons of this class. ■■■■■.- At a meeting of the Harbor Board to-day, a request from Bishop Cowie for a site near the wharf for a sailors' hall and place of worship, was referred to the endowment committee. Moanatairi—Buyers: £9 ss. ' Sellers: £9 12s. 6d. ■ . Grahamstown, Tuesday. The Moanatairi Company have paid off some £4OOO or £SOOO of debt, and have £6OOO to the' good, as the result of the crushings from the late find. Shares have gone up to £9. '■■<" ' Nafieiv Tuesday, j A man named McEachen, formerly living at Wellington, a compositor, ■' and also hairdresser, was remanded to-day on a charge of robbing his employer, Hooper, hairdresser and tobacconist, of a large quantity of goods, which several shopkeepers in the town had bought of, McEachen. Stock quite large enough for a small shop' was oh the table in the court during the examination of prisoner, who was remanded till Monday. ■ . ./■/.'■■■'■'. ..,'■' '.■ \ ' ",""" Chiiistchurch; Tuesday, i Richard A. A." Sherrin was arrested at Wa'-mate last night,, charged with writing a malicious "• libel against George McCullough Reed, proprietor of the Otdgo Guardian. The alleged libel was contained in a letter published in the Waiiangi Tribune of March 14. -"Sherrin was brought up before Mr.- Studholme at Waimate this morning, and remanded to Timaru for eight days. Bail was refused;. ! iNVERCAKGTLi, Tuesday. ; A man named John Mbuaghan was brought up at.the Resident Magistrate's Court. this morning, charged with the wilful murder of Thomas Casserley,; who has a married .sister residing at Milton. The men had come to town to keep St. Patrick's Day," and' both stayed at' the Hibernian. Hotel on Sunday night. On Monday morning Monaghan entered Casserley's room, and wanted to " see out" an unsettled dispute. This was smoothed over at the time, and the parties went to the bar, where each had four glasses of brandy. Both seem then to have gone to bed overcome with drink, and some time afterwards Casserley was found lying on the floor, "with a cut on the back of his head, and blood sprinkled about the floor and walls. Medical assistance was procured after considerable delay. Casserley then -complained of extreme pain in his urinary l organs, and ; when relief was administered there' was an issue of pure blood. He was then removed to'the Hospital, where being told there was no chance of recovery, he said, "Jack Monaghan killed ma" He died this morning. The prisoner was remanded till after the inquest Kivbrton, Tuesday. ; Douglas, a prospector for an Invercargill company at the U'ongwood ranges, after twelve months' work, struck a payable reef near George Creek, '■ and has proceeded to Invercargill to-day, with the Object' of floating" a company there,- and bringing machinery to the ground. x AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY. (Pjeb Albion at the Bluff.) Melbourne, March 14. Election meetings contiiiue to be held nightly. Professor Pearson stands ; for'Booroondara in favor of a progressive' land tax scheme ; Professor Hearn stands for St. Kilda in the frte trade interest; and Sir John | O'Shahnassy has decided in favor of Kilmore., i The writs are expected, to JBsue early next [ month, when the campign will commence in i right earnest. Very heavy rain fell on Saturday, and caused some damage to property in the city, and also in Ballarat, where it was most felt. All business is.very dull. A further extension of thirteen miles on the Victorian railways was opened yesterday. Hastings was executed this morning. He! still maintained his innocence of murdering his wife or violating his daughter. The new Victorian Club has proved a great success. The opera still occupies the boards of theTheatre Royal.