TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5388, 4 July 1878, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Waitara, Wednesday. Mi-. Sheehan and Mr. Brown left Waitara this afternoon ai route for Pirihaka, where they will interview Titoko Warn. It was rumored this morning that Rewi has accepted the Government offer to build him a house at Waitara and to give him a pension of five hundred per annum. , It is not yet known if he accepts a seat in the Legislative Council. Dunedin, Wednesday.

Mr. Gillies has retired for Taieri in favor of Mr. Gotten. Mr. Ollivier has been declared duly elected for Dunedin ; actual majority, 113. Mr. Barron, of Banks, Barron, and Co., who acted as secretary for Mr. Ollivier, will stand for Roslyu. The Star says ;—“ We have good authority for stating that the libel cases Macassey v. Reed and Reed v. Macassey will proceed, exception having been taken to so-called award, on the ground of its including matters that were not referred." The cases are set down for Friday.

At this morning’s sitting of the Land Board Sir. Bastings ■ commented on the ambiguous wording of the Acts under which the disposal of land is regulated. He said that the terms were as foggy as they could be, so that uneducated persons, or such as were unversed in law, were ignorant of the manner in which they should set about applying for land. In committing an infant to the Industrial School for a period of seven years, the Mayor, who presided at the City Police Court this morning, said : The Bench takes this opportunity of remarking that the Industrial School is overcrowded, and is beginning to now become a reproach to the colony. Unless the Government or the Legislature take some steps it will soon be a standing reproach. The Legislature make laws and impose duties on justices to send children to institutions that are inadequate to receive them. I intend to use my influence as Mayor of this city with the view of getting the Government to make better provision for the reception of these cases. Timaru, Wednesday.

As the south train, due from Oamaru at 10.10 this morning, came up to the crossing near Bruce’s mills, it collided with a dray laden with shingles, smashing the dray to atoms. Luckily neither train nor engine were damaged. A heavy N.W. gale is blowing. Christchurch, Wednesday.

In the Supreme Court, William Hatch, charged with having stolen property in his possesion, was found uot guilty. It is rumoured that steps will be taken to have a rehearing of the case against Woodford, who was sentenced to ton years’: penal servitude for rape. The plea advanced in favor of a rehearing is said to be an informality in the jury list. At the first settlement of the province the unalienated lauds were estimated at twelve million acres. The area unalienated on. the 30th ult. is estimated at 5,569,010 acres. The repairs to the shaft °f the s.s. Albion have been completed at Anderson’s foundry, and the shaft'has been sent through to Lyttelton to be shipped. Auckland, Wednesday. Mr. J. M. Dargaville has sold his timber business at Northern Wairoa to the Auckland Union Sash and Door Company for £25,000, but retains 1500 acres of freehold along the river banks, subject to the company’s timber rights. This land will be cut up into small farms, aud sold to bona fide settlers. Coaches will be laid on next Monday connecting the centre of the city with the railway terminus.

Information has been obtained atthe Pension Office hero which shows that £40,000 is annually distributed by the Imperial Government to pensioners in the colony. There are nearly 1200 pensioners. The railway authorities intend to run a special train to meet the Onehunga steamers. Rates are to be reduced on coal and agricultural produce. Students’ tickets are to be half-price. Mr. Lawson estimates the cost of the central railway terminus in the city at £70,000. The cutter Leah went ashore at Great Barrier Island, on a rock. She was afterwards beached. She is considerably damaged. The crew and cargo were saved. She was insured in the South British for £2OO. ■

Frank Gomez, supposed to have been lost in the cutter Mary, turned up to-day. • Ho had pulled in a small dingy for 20 hours. At the Supreme Court to-day Alexander Daniels was sentenced to one : yearV hard Labor for stealing from the person. i The Court, was occupied all the : afternoon with a charge of obtaining j goods by false pretences against Mrs. CroUer, wife of

Major Croker, formerly warden, Otago. The only witnesses called for the defence were her son and young daughter, who swore that they heard Jenkins, who supplied the goods, acknowledge that he took the order not as cash, but knowing its nature fully. They flatly denied all the prosecutor’s evidence. la crossexamination the girl contradicted herself very much. The jury returned a verdict of guilty. The Judge, iu passing sentence of six months' imprisonment, with hard labor, regretted that he should have to do so on a woman who had occupied her position, but. one of the most damaging things in the case was the fearful evidence given by her children.