TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 5007, 11 April 1877, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

(per press agency.) Grahamsxown, Tueday.

A man named McDonald, representing himself as recently from Wellington, was found dead at the foot of the shallow cutting this morning in Karaka-road. At an inquest on McDonald the jury, after hearing the evidence, adjourned till Thursday. He was seen last night in company with a woman, and the adjournment is to allow of the woman being sought out and produced. Deceased’s neck was broken. Auckland, Tuesday. A deputation from the Thames Harbor Board waited on the Hon. Mr. Whitaker today, and requested a subsidy in consideration of the Board taking over the administration of the foreshore and harbor. John Fyke, charged by the husband of Mrs. Macdonald with stealing certain goods, property of his, was acquitted. The case was peculiar. Macdonald married in Sydney, and his wife left him. Subsequently she obtained his forgiveness, and they Uved together at the Thames. She again left him, taking with her some goods, and married a man of the name of Fyke, who assisted her to remove the goods, with which he supplied himself. The question for the jury was whether, all the wife’s property being the property of the husband, Fyke was guilty of larceny in assisting to remove the goods. Te Patui, charged with the murder of Morgan, was found guilty and sentenced to death. Brookfield prosecuted, and Hesketh defended. The principal point relied on in defence was that Morgan cursed Te Patui, and gave provocation. The Judge directed that the jury were bound strictly by the English law, not by Maori customs. Gold was struck in the 659 ft. level in a large leader in Kurunui Hill. Christchurch, Tuesday. A boy fourteen years old, crossing the River Ashley on Saturday night, either got off or fell from his horse on to a sandspit, and the horse got away. Next morning the boy was found dead. It is surmised he was afraid to ford the river, and died from exposure to the storm which prevailed that night. The following are the weights for the Handicap Steeplechase :—Tommy Dodd, list 71b ; Mousetrap, list ; Don Juan, lOst 101 b ; Eclipse, 10st 71b ; Faugh-a-Ballagh, lOst. Dunedin, Tuesday.

Dr. Scott, M. 8., 0.M., of the Edinburgh University, for the year 1874, and at present Demonstrator of Anatomy to that University, has been appointed Professor of Anatomy to the Otago University. At the conclusion of the evidence in the Taranaki enquiry, the Court intimated that its report would be forwarded to Wellington. The Bruce County Council has decided to adopt the Act in its entirety. Balcltjtha, Tuesday.

As a boy was driving a spring cart along a dangerous bluff road between the railway terminus and township to-day, his horse commenced kicking, and the whole went over the embankment into a deep part of the Molyneux River. The horse and cart were not seen afterwards, but fortunately the boy was got out by two gentleman passing.