TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 5708, 16 July 1879, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(PER PRESS AGENCY.) Auckland, Tuesday. The Orange soiree last night was crowded. Thomas Outhwaite, an old settler, and first Registrar of the Supreme Court, is dead. A man named John Irwin, alias Ramsey, was arrested to-night. He had obtained a considerable quantity of clothing from various tailors under false pretences. An old man named Stafford, while intoxicated, had a quarrel with a Mrs. Drummond. She pushed him out of her house, and he fell heavily on the pavement and sustained severe injuries, the temple being cut and the head covered with blood. At the hospital it was found he was suffering from concussion of the brain.

The dispute re Okatu Block, Cambridge, was settled amicably. The football players are very much aggrieved at the order from the Government depriving them of the use of the paddock at the back of Government House, on which the matches have hitherto taken place. Napier, Tuesday.

A curious charge of arson was heard at the Resident Magistrate’s Court yesterday. A man named James Loundys was charged with burning down his own house at Waipukurau. The house was erected on land belonging to the Hon. H. R. Russell; but as the burning down was done to spite Loundys’ wife and to injure Mr. Russell, the Resident Magistrate doubted whether the charge of arson could be sustained, and so they withdrew it, and the man was dealt with on a charge of assaulting his wife and using threatening language to her. It appeared that last Friday he assaulted both his wife and daughter, and they left the house and took refuge with a neighbor. As they did not return that night, Loundys swore that his wife should no longer have a house to live in, and so burnt it down. On a previous occasion he had threatened to shoot his wife, and she, seeing him making to take down Ilia gun, cleared out quickly and pulled the door after her. Loundys then fired through the door. He was fined £1 for the assault, and ordered to be bound over, himself in £IOO and two sureties in £SO each, to keep the peace for six months. As he could not find the sureties, he has gone to gaol for the six mouths. To-day a chemist named Carl Marie Gradman was charged with the manslaughter of a married woman named Lauring, at Norsewood, on the 29th June. Mrs. Lauring was taken in labor, and her husband procured the attendance of Gradman, who was at. first indisposed to attend, but was induced to consent, there being no medical man at hand. It was a double birth, and Gradman was very unsuccessful with the first child, and did not succeed ■ atall. The husband then went to Waipukurau by way of Kopua, and six hours afterwards brought Dr. Reid, who quickly delivered her of the second child, but the woman died from exhaustion not long after. The evidence of Dr. Reid was to the effect that had the wort an been attended by a qualified man from the first she would probably have survived, but ha could not say that death was caused by the treatment of the prisoner. The charge was dismissed.

' Dunedin, Tuesday. Mr. Stewart, the new M.H.R., leaves for Wellington on Friday. The City Council this afternoon instructed the Finance Committee to take immediate steps for obtaining the citizens consent to the issue of a new loan of £IOO,OOO for municipal purposes. Invercargill, Tuesday.

A fire occurred this morning at the Southland mattrass and bedding factory, owned by Mr. A. Dunlop. The building and contents were totally destroyed. The stock was insured for £250, which will far from cover the loss sustained, Mr. Dunlop '.estimating it at over £SOO.

A preliminary inquiry was held to-day touching the stranding of the schooner Jane Anderson, at New River Heads, on the 3rd instant. The evidence given by the pilot and captain was very contradictory, the former swearing that the necessary signals were given, while the latter denied the assertion. The decision of the Collector of Customs will be known shortly.