TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5415, 5 August 1878, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(m PRESS AOIHCT.) Auckland, Sunday. The new Kaipara Steam Company have purchased all Captain Casey’s interest in the' Kaipara and Riverhead trade, including the five steamers Minnie Casey, Lilly, Gemini, Kina, and City of Cork, besides a quantity of coal, orane, &o. ■ The address to Captain Kennedy, of the Hawes, accompanying the purse of sovereigns presented to him, says :—“ But for your intimate knowledge of the coast and your ability to manage the disabled vessel successfully, we should have been exposed to serious risk during the stormy weather which has continued since Monday morning.” The Jockey Club has ratified the decision of the Oamaru Club in removing the disqualification from Fishhook. ■ ' Timaru, Sunday. Father Hennebery opened Ms mission at the] Roman Catholic Church here to-day to a crowded congregation. At the commencement of the address he referred to himself and what ho had been reported to have said, to the effect that marriages between Catholics and non-Catholics were no marriages at all, not even if married by priests. He emphatically denied he bad said so. If he had, no priests would sanction his preaching in their churches, and the Bishop would suspend him. Ho had no doubt a conspiracy was at work to frustrate the good of his mission. If in future his hearers read such reports in newspapers, or sent in any Way through means of the Press telegraph throughout New Zealand, they should not believe them. He likened such newspaper men and editors to a curse, and said he should treat them as such. He never saw such a Press as there was in Now Zealand. Regarding the writ against him for libel, he said there was not a shadow of a case ; not all the witnesses in the world, nor, packed juries, could make a lie ths truth. It bad been said he had made money by the mission, and that he took £I3OO from Reefton. • He was sorry that this was not trie. He was in debt, and stood before them in debt. The mission lasts one week. There are services in the church twice a day. • Oamaru, Saturday.

Two men have mysteriously disappeared from hero within the past few days. Duncan Young, night watchman at the breakwater, wont on tbe watch on Thursday night, and bn Friday morning was missing. Search was made, but Young could not bo found. The window of the lamp-room was 'broken, and tho room in great disorder. The first mate of tho barque Garonne was lying on tho floor asleep. On being awakened it was seen that his clothes were saturated with salt water, and spots of blood were seen on the floor of - the lamp-room, He could give no satisfactory account of what had happened, except that Young, himself, and two or three others had been drinking. He tried to get oil to the Garonne, but was unable to get to her. He did hot know that a watchman was appointed in Young’s place, as he thought he might bo in town on the spree. Young’s wife gave information to the police, who searched the towni but failed to find him. To-day the harbor was dredged for bis body, but unsuccessfully. In the meantime tho Garonne cleared at the Customs, for Newcastle, and sailed yesterday. So far the whole affair is wrapped in mystery. The other case f>£ disappearance is that of a man named Cunningham. He left Smith's farm at Fapakio on horseback at noon on Monday lost for Pudding Hill station, ou the Canterbury side of the Waitaki. .He said Ke intended 'to ford the river Instead of crossing by the bridge. Strict search was made for him, but he has not been found. It is thought he - must have been drowned in crossing the Waitaki. Dunedin, Saturday. The Dune’diu school committee last night discussed tbe question as to whether Government should allow the chairmen of school committees, when forwarding tho lists of candidates for the Civil Service to Welliugton, to include the names of youths attending the Roman Catholic schools. Tho Ctovernmmt

had intimated that they would be glad to. receive the names of youths attending any schools. Professor McGregor and Mr. Pish condemned their action, while Mr. Eobia said he thought it was but an act of simple justice. »

At a meeting of the University Debating Society, held la it night, Professor Hutton delivered a. lecture proving that it was impossible that life could have originated on the earth by physical causes. Mr. A. Lee Smith, the employer of the girl Caroline Young, who is being prosecuted for concealment of birth, will to-day commence a criminal prosecution for libel against the proprietors of the Saturday Advertuer, for comments published by it concerning the case.