TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 5222, 17 December 1877, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(PER PRESS AGENCY). Auckland, Saturday. Preparations are being made for a cricket match with Canterbury on the 28th inst. A band will be on the ground. Racing club entries : Railway Plate. —Rosalie, The Pope, Chanticleer, Queen Mab, Ishmaelite, Perfume, Jessamine, Isaac Walton. Handicap Hurdle.—Shaughraun, Whitefoot, Butcher Boy, Tui, Greyhound, Tom Finn, Luna, Don. Maiden Plate.—Shaughraun, Rosalie, Ratcatcher, Chanticleer, Queen Mab, Rally, Gillie Callum, Tom Finn, The Baron, Jessamine. Derby Stakes. —Venus-Transit. Auckland Plate.—Rosalie, Magician, Golden Crown, Gillie Callum, Lara, Elsa, Hippocampus, Venus-Transit. Publicans’ Purse.—Ratcatcher, Queen Mab, Ishmaelite, Perfume, Hippocampus, VenusTranait. Stewards’ Handicap.—Ratcatcher, Chanticleer, Queen Mab, Ishmaelite, Lara, Luna, Baron, Jessamine, Isaac Walton, Hippocampus, Venus-Transit. Grand Stand Handicap.—Whitefoot, Chanticleer, Queen Mab, Golden Grown, Gillie Callum, Lara, Perfume, The Baron, Jessamine, Isaac Walton, Hippocampus. Selling Race.—The Pope, Cockfighter, Rally, Gillie Callum, Tom Finn, Temperance, Isaac Walton. Ashburton, Saturday. There were over twenty-five criminal and civil oases to be dealt with at Geraldine yesterday, but no Resident Magistrate was in attendance, Mr. Campbell not having arrived to take charge at Ashburton. The civil cases have been put off to the 28th. Some men attended here who had travelled over 150 miles three times to have their cases dealt with. Christchurch, Saturday. The members of the Canterbury Philosophical Institute have arranged a series of scientific excursions, the first of which is to take place next week on the Peninsula. The Rev. Father Henneberry, who has been conducting Catholic mission services at Rangiora, and lecturing on temperance, has induced a large number to take the pledge. Over 300 signed yesterday. Timaru, Saturday. At the Supreme Court to-day, James Patrick Casey was found guilty of stealing from the person, and received a sentence of four years’ penalservitude.—-William Sandford, for burglary and stealing from a dwelling, was sentenced to four years’ imprisonment, with hard labor.—Anthony Dunlop McLeod, charged with obtaining money under false pretences, was acquitted. Balclutha, Saturday. At a meeting of the Clutha County Council held last night, the salary of the chairman was voted to he £lsl ; of the clerk, £l5O ; of the engineer, £2OO, with the privilege of carrying on private practice. Dunedin, Saturday.

The Union Company’s annual excursion to the West Coast Sounds by the Hawea promises to be a great success. Sixty passengers have already booked from all parts of the colony, including fifteen ladies. Captain Malcolm takes charge for the trip, as he is thoroughly acquainted with the Sounds. The Hawea will not call at the Bluff, as the port dues are so heavy. A remarkable prosecution for perjury was instituted against Jane Galloway, otherwise Bellamy, by a young woman named Ada Maria Galloway, in consequence of the defendant having declared in an affidavit that the prosecutrix was the illegitimate child of her first husband. After two hearings the case was again adjourned until this morning. The facts are shortly as follows ' The prosecutrix on her father's death was living at Wakari with her uncle, in whose family she had been brought up from childhood. She obtained letters of administration over her father’s property, which comprised some valuable sections. Subsequently defendant, who had married a Mr. Bellamy in the meantime, arrived in New Zealand from Sydney, and instituted Supreme Court proceedings with a view of obtaining her deceased husband’s property. Affidavits were made, in which she declared Miss Galloway to be the illegitimate daughter of her first husband by a dressmaker in Glasgow. In consequence of this declaration the letters of administration were cancelled. An appeal to the Court of Appeal failed to alter the result, and then the present criminal proceedings were takeu with the object of removing the imputation. Respecting Miss Galloway’s birth, tor the prosecution a certificate of the registration of the prosecutrix’s birth in Sydney is pro '.need. The case has already occupied the Resident Magistrate’s Court two days, and the evidence is likely to be very lengthy.