TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 5165, 11 October 1877, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(PEB PRESS AGENCY.) Auckland, Wednesday. Dates from Sydney per Rotorua contained nothing additional to the news per Albion. Roberts, the billiardist, is a passenger for the South. Arthur Barnsley, under remand from Sydney to Wellington, charged with obtaining £lO by means of a forged telegraph order purporting to be from the manager of the Union SteamShip Company, came by the Rotorua. Napier, Wednesday. At the Hawke's Bay Agricultural and Pastoral Society’s Show at Hastings to-day sheep only were exhibited. The weather was inclement, and the attendance fair. Several members of both Houses were present, including Messrs. Stafford, Pitzroy, Teschemaker, Dusk, Cox, and Sutton. Colonel Whitmore took the prize for merino champion rams, and H. R. Russell for the champion ewe. Mr. Purvis Russell’s cup for the best provincial bred ram was won by Mr. Donald Gollan. Pirst prizes were taken by sheep from the flocks of Mr. Douglas McLean (late Sir Donald’s), Mr. Gollan, and Mr. H. R. Russell (who also took the second and third prizes in the same class). Mr. Purvis Bussell took the prize in longwools. The judging has not concluded. The first prizes in Lincolns were taken by Mr. H. R. Russell (who also took second and third prizes in the same class.) Colonel Whitmore and Messrs. Holbel, Coleman, and McHardy also exhibited. Cotswolds, A. Buckland. New Plymouth, Wednesday. The Mayor has called a meeting re Indian Pamiue Punds. The ministers have actively taken the matter up. Committees have been appointed, and the district is to be actively canvassed for subscriptions. Christchurch, Wednesday. There were heavy showers last night, which wore very welcome to the agricultural districts, where the dry weather began to be seriously felt. Energetic steps are being taken to provide

for the great increase anticipated in the grain traffic next season. 110 waggons are being built in the Government workshops, and leaders are to be called for 300 more.

As showing the state of the labor market, the Times this morning says the railway contractor for the North Island line recently tried to get forty men here at Bs. per day, but failed to get half the number. A pigeon race from Rakaia to Christchurch, thirty-five miles, thirteen entries, was won by Parker’s Father Tom. Time, 55mins. The Governor has commuted the sentence of death passed on Karl Kehede for murder to imprisonment for life. At the Magistrate’s Court to-day M. Murphy and H. Wykes, commission agents, were charged with conspiring to defraud the creditors of a man named Hammil. It appeared that Hammil recently applied to Murphy for a loan. Murphy advised him to sell his stock, none of which had been paid for, and tell his creditors his business did not pay. Hammil agreed, and Murphy paid £2B, and with Wykes removed stock worth £BO on Saturday night, finishing at 5 o’clock on Sunday morning. The case was adjourned, and bail refused.

It is rumored that the projected Alliance Insurance Company has completely fallen through. The Primate delivered the decision of the Episcopal Bench in the Kaiapoi case to-day, and also the penalty that he, as Bishop of the Diocese, imposed on the Rev. Mr. Carlyon. The former was to the effect that Mr. Carlyon had acted contrary to the teachings of the English Church. The latter ordered his suspension for one month, when, if he does not retract, he will be dismissed from his cure. Mr. Carlyon replied at length that he had not acted wrongly, and he does not seem likely to retract.

Nelson, Wednesday.

The Queen Bee Wreck Recovery Company have declared a second dividend of £SO, with a large reserve in hand. Kdmara, Wednesday.

The evidence of the police m the murder case occupied the whole day. The statements made to them by the prisoner appear suspicious. The evidence for the Crown will be completed to-morrow, and the defence will be taken on Friday. Balclutha, Wednesday.

At the Magistrate’s Court to-day, Thomas Ross, groom at the Newmarket Hotel, pleaded guilty to wilfully setting fire to the Crown Hotel stables on Tuesday last. He was remanded till to-morrow.

AUSTRALIAN NEWS. ■ Bluff, Wednesday. Sir W. Jervois has gone to Adelaide, where he will be sworn in as Governor. The committee of the Blind Asylum exonerated the master from the charges of cruelty brought against him. The Corporation intend borrowing a hundred thousand pounds on debentures for the market buildings and new bridges shortly to be erected over the Yarra to meet the increasing traffic.

Petty’s Arcade in Collins-street has fallen through. Hospital Sunday is fixed for October 21st. Lee, proprietor of the Police fl’ews, has been acquitted on the, charge of endeavoring to extort money. A large amount of property has been recovered from the robbery of Goldstein’s jewellery in Bourke-street. One of the prisoners in custody has made a full confession.