TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5239, 8 January 1878, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(per press agency.) Gisborne, Monday. Sir George Grey and partj are weatherbound at Tauranga. Mr. Sheehan telegraphs that he expects to arrive here to-morrow morning. Blenheim, Monday. There was a fire at Havelock yesterday. It began at Dive’s store in the show-room and spirit-room. The adjoining buildings—Williams, shoemaker ; Doustin, butcher ; and llaxted, blacksmith—were all burnt, and Dive saved nothing. He is insured, Williams only partially, and the others not at all. Doustin and Maxted saved most of their goods. Total loss probably £6OOO. No idea of the origin. Litchfield was fined in the Resident Magistrate’s Court to-day for omitting to stamp a receipt in 1873. Dunedin, Monday. Messrs. Goldsbrough and Co., of Melbourne, advise their Dunedin agents by telegram that during December they sold 180,000 bales of wool. They report the market firm for good wools, but dull for inferior. The prices realised were—Greasy, from 7<L to Is. 3d.; washed, Is. 3d. to 2s. Ifd. Ministers are still flooded with deputations on every conceivable subject. In reply to one deputation Mr. Macaudrew said it was inexpedient and suicidal to relax the restrictions on the importation of stock to Auckland from Europe and America. The Government have intimated that they will give railway passes to parties in Otago desirous of getting up entertainments in aid of benevolent societies. Margaret MeDermid, who sued the Port Chalmers Corporation for £IO,OOO damages for construction of waterworks, was awarded £ISOO. , . Chantry Harris, formerly shipping reporter of the Times, has received the appointment of editor of the Southland Times. The match between the Australian and Ota"o cricketers eventuates on 12th, 14th, and 15 th January. The criminal sessions commenced to-day. Thomas Koth, convicted of arson, was sentenced to one year’s hard labor. This leniency was shown in consequence of the prisoner having extinguished the fire himself. Jessie Kilpatrick was found guilty of larceny of £45. There were six previous convictions against her, and she was sentenced to three years’ penal servitude. James McArthur Brown was found guilty of horse-stealing. Sentence was deferred. Henry Burnett and Benjamin Jones, charged with larceny, and Michael E"an; charged with committing an unnatural offence, were acquitted. Christchurch, Monday. Stewart’s pawnbrokers shop was broken into on Saturday night, and jewellery to the value of £SO stolen. The Supreme Court opened this morning. There were thirteen cases of an ordinary character. The Turkish baths were opened on Saturday, proving very successful. At the Supreme Court to-day Judge Johnston, in his address to the Grand Jury, said that although there were twelve cases for trial the calendar was not heavy, nearly all the offences being of an ordinary character. John Hill, convicted of larceny as a bailee, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment; Berry, alias McDonald, for forgery and uttering, twelve months. There was a thunderstorm, with very heavy rain, yesterday. Kain is not now wanted, as it would damage the crops, which are now ripening fast and requiring gathering.