TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5401, 19 July 1878, Page 4

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(per press agency.) ■ Napier, Thursday,

A deputation interviewed the Hon, Mr. Sheehan yesterday, respecting the Port Ahuriribridge. /They received a satisfactory assurance on the matter. The money will have to be revotod, but the erection of the bridge will be proceeded with as speedily as circumstances will permit. There was an impression that Sir JohnCoode had reported against the work; but this is a mistake. He merely recommended a deviation in the line, which makes no difference in the accommodation for traffic.

Last evening Mr.- Sheehan was present as a frieud of Major Withers at the farewell parade of the volunteer artillery. Mr, Sheehan addressed the volunteers briefly in commendatory terms, remarking upon .the great accession to their numbers since he first came here. Afterwards Mr. Sheehan was present at the Working Men’s Club social gathering and entertainment.

Great preparations are being made for the fire brigade demonstration on the 25th inst. Aiiaura, Thursday.

James Carrol was committed for trial this afternoon at the Supreme Court sittings at Hokitika, for attempting rape, on the 25th ult., on Martha Livingstone, a married woman living at Nelson Creek. Christchurch, Thursday.

In tho Supreme Court yesterday Mr. Chapman, a wool-sorter, sued Sir Craoroft Wilson for £IOOO for malicious prosecution. Some time ago Sir Craoroft Wilson laid an information against Chapman for stealing wool, and he was committed for trial; but on the charge being hoard before the Supremo Court, he was acquitted. In the present case the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff for £l5O and costs.

Eugene Hoff was charged at the Oxford Magistrate’s Court yesterday with murdering his wife on July 8, and was committed for trial. His demeanor in Court was very quiet, and he showed very little disposition to cross-examine the witnesses. "At various points of the evidence he nodded his assent to the correctness of the testimony, but when his wife was stated to have been kind to him, he gave a negative shake of the head, and smiled in a cynical manner; When the medical evidence was being taken, and it was stated tbat the wounds which- caused death were administered by either a shingling hammer, a cleaver, or a tomahawk, he pointed to tho head of the latter,, from- which. ,tl|o > handle, had been. burnt, as if it were the instrument with which the deed was committed. .Hoff: hover seemed fully t°

realise his position. He reserved hia statement of the affair until brought before the Supreme Court. ■

Messrs. Guthrie and Larnach's office at the South. Toivn-belt was broken into last night. A oheffonier was broken open, and an attempt was.made to open the safe, but this waa unsuccessful. The only article missing is a rug. Dunedin, Thursday.

A man named John Anderson waa killed last night at Kensington by the overturning of a dray. Port Chalmers, Thursday.

The Minister of Public Works met a large and influential deputation here to-day, relative to wharf extension and dredging approaches to the present wharf. Mr. Macandrew promised that the dredging should be seen to. He also stated that a sura for wharf extension would be placed on the Estimates, and that plans wore in course of preparation. Bluff, Thursday.

The captain of the s.s. Maori, which arrived here from the West Coast this morning, reports arriving at Big Bay on the morning of the 16th instant, where H. Eisher, a digger, reported that on the 13th June, when shooting along the beach to the northward, he found a tent and blanket about five miles up the harbor. Further on he found the dead body of a stranger. He returned to the camp and obtained assistance, and at daylight next morning returned to the scene of the accident and found the bodies of Andrew H.'Williamson and James, Dalziel. Ha removed the bodies- above high-water mark, and reported the circumstances to Captain Brentley, of Martin Bay. A search party was organised, and the bodies of Jeremiah Dalziel (or Yell) and John Gabriel were found.' The party buried the bodies, and made further search, but without finding anything further. It appears that the deceased parly had sailed from Jackson Bay in an open boat with a quantity of tools, deeply laden, and were swamped on a reef outside Big Bay. Yell leaves a wife and four children. Gabriel also leaves a wife and family in Nova Scotia. Cronspaki, whose body was not recovered, leaves a wife and a large family. The stranger is supposed to be D. Branschon.