TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5536, 24 December 1878, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(PER PRESS AOENOr). Auckland, Monday. Mr. Maoandrew left by the Hawoa for Tauranga. He goos overland to Napier. The Government have bought a site for railway workshops at Newmarket for £4OOO. Charles Burton, a confeotioner, wa9 fined a pound for holding an art union of Christmas cakes.

A house oocupied by Lowery, at Epsom, was totally destroyed by fire. It was insured in the New Zealand office for £175. . Mossrs. Faithful and Roberts were fined for lauding shoop infeutod with scab at Onehunga. Napier, Monday.

The chief Karaltiana has been ill latoly, aud his malady Beems to havo affected his head. Yesterday afternoon he was so violent that ho had to be put under tho restraint of a strait waistcoaßt. He was stopping at tho Criterion Hotel, and tho uoi6o ho mado attracted a crowd outside the hotel. Other quarters were provided for him last ovening, to which ho was romovod.

Tho men on the TVwianga paper have been dismissod, aud Mr. White's (oditor) servicos dispensed with, , It is variously stated that this is preliminary to new arrangements, or of tho ceasing of .the publication.

To-day the burgesses of Napier are polling on the question whether a loan of £70,000 shall be raised to consolidate the old loans and provide for drainage and sewerage. The polling for the £70,000 loan was 315 for and 121 against ; majority for the loan 194. Under the soheme proposed by the Council there will be no increase of rates except to those who, living on the hills, are outside the water supply line, and who are now paying only 15.,6d. in the pound. These will in future have to pay half-a orown in the pound, same as others.

Ticro, Monday.

Pohipi Tukairaugi, the loyal chief of Taupo, is about calling a meeting of the Taupo natives for the pnrpose of preventing them attending the meeting at Waitara in March next. The reasons he assigns for this are that the Taupo natives have long been loyal to the Queen, and that it will be more prudent for them to remain apart from the present negotiations of the Government with the Hauhaus, lest they sheuld get committed to any native movement adverse to the policy of the present Government. Pohipi has communicated his views to the Native Minister.

BLEbTHEiH, Monday.

The following are the acceptances for the Marlborough Cup: Danebury, Camballo, Pinfire, Treason, Rata, Morning Star, G-rey ! Momus, Doncaster, and Lady Grey. CHBIBTCHUBCH, Monday. A little girl named Margaret Jack died early this morning from the effeofcs of a doss of aqua fortis. It seems that one of Jack's sons had been jburniag corns with th» aqua fortis, which was in a bottle on the table, and which the child drank by mistake. A. verdict of accidental death, with a rider that parents should be more careful in leaving poisons about, was returned. The annual gymnastic competition for prizes given by the Board of Education took place to-day. Robert Everson was charged under the Vagrant Act with soliciting alms. From evidence it appeared that on the previous evening accused followed three young men, from whom he demanded money, at the same time using th-eats. He talked about his intention to have money at any risk, and caught one of them by the throat. Inspector Hickson remarked that the evidence carried the case beyond one of soliciting alms, and that he would like to make inquiries. Aecuaed was accordingly remanded until Friday. To-night the Harmonic Society perform the " Mcsßiah " for the first time for some years.

At a meeting of the Hospital Board on Saturday it was stated by the houae surgeon that a young girl just from Melbourne, aged 17, had been admitted for treatment of a certain disease, when it was discovered that she was eaciente. Mr. Chirton, house surgeon, said she would have to be turned out before the accouchement took place, as the hospital was no place for such ca3es. J. E. Brown, M.H.R., a member of the board, said the first consideration of the officers of the hospital should be the claims of humanity, and he warned the house surgeon to be very careful as to how he acted in the matter. Dtijjedin, Monday. A meeting of the master tailors has been held to consider the demands of the men for increased wages. As they were of a complicated character, it was resolved to consider them at another meeting. At a meeting of the Amalgamated Carpenters and Joiners' Society the following resolution was carried :—"That we view with alarm the continued influx of Chinese, and will heartily co-operate with our fellow-men in Wellington to put a stop to it; and that a fine of £SO per head be imposed on all captains of vessels bringing Chinese to New Zealand." The evidence in Stanford v. Gillies and others was concluded this evening. Counsel did not address the jury, and a verdict was returned for the plaintiff,'subject to the law of the case being in his favor. At Trinity Wesleyan Church the Rev. Mr. Morley gavo a denial to the statement that nearly the whole of the Wealeyan ministers in New Zealand resisted the itinerant system of that Church.

A small piece of ground in George-street has been sold at the rate of sixty thousand pounds an acre.