TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5446, 10 September 1878, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

' (FROM-A correspondent). Dunedin, Monday. There was much enthusiasm about • Sir Julius Vogel at tho banquet, aud people here are disgusted at Ministers and their satelites. Messrs. Stout and Fisher’s speeches are generally condemned as being in bad taste. This is the public opinion iu the town generally. (PER PRESS AQENOr.) Auckland, Monday. Samoan papers received to-day report the flogging of a native for a drunken assault on a European. The native judge stated, that it was his intention to suppress all outrages on foreign residents in a similar.way. Baker and Farron opened to an overflowing house.. Ninety were turned away.Napier, Monday. Re murder. Moori woman at Waiapu, the natives gave up as a prisoner one of the men implicated, a half-caste named Henare Peti; but the- other man, being a chief, was only sent down as a witness. After - the two had gone to Gisborne, Inspector Scully arrived at Waiapu, aud finding that no inquest had been held he communicated with the. authorities on the subject, and in consequence the two natives and Mi*. Kenrick, the. coroner, go up from Gisborne to Waiapu to-night. Inspector Scully says ho will try to have the woman’s body exhumed, though - it is against Maori custom. . : Blenheim, Monday. Mr. Gorton of the Marlborough Express has just arrived hero from Havelock. He says ; “ Stop the rush ; 'the report about the Mountain Gamp is false." A man named George Orchard had his nose bitten clean off by a man named Ben Jones, last night, in a drunken brawl in Whittles* Hotel at Kaikoura.

TimAru, Monday, Heavy south-westerly weather commenced about dusk last night, with heavy rain, which is still continuing. The vessels at anchor are riding the gale out well. Ingram ■ Shrimpton, another of the band of Canterbury pilgrims, died on Friday night. He published a written edition of the Lyttelton Times some time after he settled in South Canterbury, where he has been since. He was for some time the proprietor of the Timaric. Herald, Dunedin, Monday. The Governor and nearly all the Northern visitors left for Christchurch by the 7 o’clock train this imrhiug. > In tho Jewish Synagogue yesterday the ceremony of consecrating the Scroll of the Law, presented by Mr, Joel, took place. There was a large attendance, and the ceremony. was performed by the Jewdsh Rabbi. Mr. Justice Williams leaves for Christchurch to-morrow, to assist Mr. Justice Johnston in the case of the Canterbury Road Board v. Government, which raises the question of the legality of tho Government’s-action in withholding the Land Fund. During the month ending' sth iust. the Dunedin Immigration Office has received nominations for 118 persons, equal to statute adults.

No less than 2378 persons paid for admission to .the Benevolent Institution Carnival on Saturday. Mr. Watt, R.M., and Inspector Mallard attended at the Waverley Boarding House this afternoon to take the depositions of Mary Hamilton, 13 years of ago. She had been in the employment of the postmaster at Kaitangata, but came to town by the night train on Wednesday, and went to the boarding house.' The proprietor finding her in a very emaciated state obtained medical assistance, and as doubts of her recovery were eutertained her depositions were taken to-day. She says that she: was overworked, and hence she left her place. • ■ ■i ■ Nominations for City Councillors took place to-day. The candidates for South Ward are Messrs. Conzens, Pish, More, and Roberts. High Ward, Messrs. Barron, MoKinnon. Walter, and Webb. Leith-Ward, Messrs. Dougherty, Amos, Russell, Dalrich, Isaacs, and Grant. Bell Ward, Messrs. Carroll, Thompson, and Woodland ware elected. Mr. Reeves was nominated for Leith Ward, but the papers were informal.

B.vlcldtha, Monday. McKenzie and Thomson’s store was enters 1 about -1 o’clock yesterday morning, when two doom were broken open to enable the thieves to effect au entrance. The safe had evidently been tried with false keys, but unsuccessfully. A few articles of clothing are supposed lo have been stolen. There is no due to the identity of the robbers. The matter is in the hands ot the police; There has been constant rain from Saturday night to Sunday night. _ A fil’d occurred at Kaitangata at half-past two ou Sunday morning, by which a cottage, stable, and three valuable horses, belonging to the Kaitangata Coal Company, were consumed. The cottage was occupied by a man named William Bain, who was absent at the time of the fire. He lias lost his furniture and clothes. The value of the horses and buildings ,is estimated at £250, and they are insured. The three horses were trained to work in the mine, and some time must elapse before other horses can be trained in the same way! The origin of the tiro is unknown.