TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5365, 7 June 1878, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(FEU TRESS AGENCY.) - Auckland,- Thursday. " At the police court to-day Alexander Camp-, , bell was charged with attempting to murder a man named Smith, by putting arsenic into bis tea. The prisoner was remanded. i Grahamsxown, Thursday. -- >. The County Council to-day decided to send th# chairman to the Wellington Conference ,on the 21st July. The Finance Committee recommended that the. Counties Act be amended, so as to enable the ratepayers to elect two auditors, and that the accounts of local boards receiving Government- aid, subsequently audited,by the Government auditor. Maketd, Thursday.A party of natives from Kotina came here j to-day, and having quietly'occupied ah old redoubt commanding the settlement,” performed a war dance on the parapet and discharged a volley l of - blank , cartridge. The Europeans treat the event with great , composure, believing the demonstration to a device of the Arawa to frighten the Ngatipukis and other hapus from going-on with the, Court now. being, held- here under Judge Heale. The Ngatipukis do not intend to take any action against tKcse disturbers, of the peace, knowing that they could, if, they,choose, speedily,wipe them out. They have left the matter for the authorities to -settle, sandintend proceeding quietly. with•,their claims, before; the Qpqrt,. These Kotorua men have no interest in the lands under revision ; but they rely ,_on the bid flour and sugar policy;being,exercised on their behalf—a remote contingency everybody hopes. ' ■ . i ; New, Plymouth, Thursday. Three expresses have left town for Parihiko with provisions, -to meet Mr., Sheehan .and,, party there. The Hinemoa has 1 arrived here, to await the Ministerial party. Fourteen thousand - pounds Worth of grass seed has been shipped from here this season." Christchurch, Thursday.

It is proposed to establish a cricket club here, composed exclusively of natives of ,Au»tralia and"Tasmanii£...'. . , -- ■ , ; -- .Last night the members of the Congregational -Church presented their late pastor, the Rev; S. Habens, with a silver tea and coffee service and 160 sovs., and an illuminated ad-, dress. . Mr. Habens leaves Christchurch shortly for Wellington, to enter on his appointment as Inspector-General of Schools., Mr. Gilligan, of Wellington, has purchased Delavnain’s training establishment at Yaldhurst,;and purposes, engaging; Ashcroft, of Sydney, as his. trainer. To-day subscriptions have been collected to telegraph to the Australian -Cricketers.: congratulating them on their success against the English team, and suggesting that if the Australians have any desire to have their revenge: on Canterbury, they can return by the San Francisco route, and call at Christchurch, when a match will be arranged for them. J The; Governor, held a levee to-day. About sixty gentlemen were presented.This afternoon”,i'-testimonial,-and ,220 soys.-: were presented to Lieut.-Dugald an old Waterloo veteran, aged 88. . The weather io still very wet. Dunedin, Thursday.

-The City Council last night voted £2OO towards the purchase of; requisites for showing specimens in the-Dunedin Museum. . The;dispute between the auditors and the Council, as to the manner of signing paysheets, J has-been referred, to the Mayor and Mr. Webb for settlement. Councillor Roberts said that the-gasworks were being managed by the Council at an annual low of^lOOO. Sir John Coodo’a report was received by the Harbor Board to-day, and was referred to the Works Committee to report upon; but Sir John Goode’s report is not -to be published -in the meantime. - .

The rain still continues. , .Oamard, Thursday.

An adjourned inquiry into the cause of the recent coach accident, by "which Mr, Nicholls and young Mr, ■ Maitland were killed,'took place to-day.' Geddard, the driver, appeared .In Court with his head bandaged up., ,He gave evidence that when the coach had descended the Horse Bange for about two or three hun;drcd yards, a trace on the pfiE-side pole horse became loose. ’ ’This caused the horses to take fright, and they broke into a gallop. In ores-' sing a watercourse in the road, the coach jerked yiolently, and' after going a short distance, capsized. The jury, returned the fol. lowing verdict“ That Charles Nicholls and James Ernest Maitland met their death acci-, ,■ dentally,- and' that there ’is no' blame attributable to the driver of the coach.