TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 5139, 12 September 1877, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(PER PRESS AQENCT.) , Christchurch, Tuesday. Last night the City Council voted £SO to Councillor Hobbs for expenses in attending the Wellington Municipal Conference. The City Council have decided to make strong representations to the Government of the necessity for erecting a new Magistrate’s Court. The present buildings were characterised by councillors as little better than a Black Hole of Calcutta. If the Government will make over the Provincial Council Chamber to the City Council, the latter will probably erect a new Magistrate’s Court at a cost of £3OOO. At the inquest on the body of Buckley, who was found dead on the Port Hills on Friday with wounds on the head, the medical evidence was to the effect that deceased died from concussion of the brain, caused by a fall. The jury returned a verdict of found dead, but by what means deceased died there is not sufficient evidence to show. The chairman of the recent artisans’ meeting' received a letter from the Government, stating that the matter of having public works material manufactured in the colony will receive attention, and when compatible with economy, will be carried into effect. A good sample of sand has been discovered at Kaiapoi, and there is some talk of establishing a glass manufactory. - Samuel Needham was brought up on remand this afternoon, charged with attempting to commit rape on his own daughter, thirteen years old. The prisoner was stated to have been drunk at the time. After hearing the evidence

Mr. Garrick, for the defence, urged the Bench to deal with the case summarily as one of assault. The Bench took time to consider their decision, and remanded the case until Wednesday. Middleton has been scratched for the Canterbury Jockey Club Handicap. , IM , , Dunedin, Tuesday, The charge of forgery against Rossbottom was dismissed to-day, the Bench beino- of opinion that there was not sufficient evidence to commit the accused. The case against Proudfoot was further adjourned till Friday. , Auckland, Tuesday, . A- woman named Fanny Moore, who wasliving with a person named Pete, died to-day in Cook-street. Both her eyes were blackened, and the neighbors testified to her having received ill-treatment. Dr. Bren, who had been attending her for a few days, gave a certificate of death froin natural causes, but the police called for an inquest, and the jury returned a verdict of manslaughter against Pote, who is said to have left for Taranaki. t> , , Geeymouth, Tuesday, Robert Williamson, mate of the schooner Cleopatra, was fined at the Magistrate’s Court to-day £SO for harboring and concealing certain un-customed goods belonging to the wreck of the St. Hilda,