TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 5786, 15 October 1879, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

(PER PRESS AGENCY.) New Plymouth, Tuesday. At a meeting of the Waste Lands Board yesterday, the Chief Commissioner was instructed to prosecute John Wix, for depasturing cattle on the Waimate Plains. Owing to the storm the mail steamer Waitaki, from Wellington, passed on to Auckland without communicating. Auckland, Tuesday. A person named Sheridan Carlisle Hall has been committed for trial for obtaining forty pounds’ worth of goods on false pretences from Mr. Caulton, of the Albert Hotel. Prisoner represented that he was expecting money from Dunedin, and officers of the Telegraph Department were called to prove that prisoner altered the telegram to give color to the belief that the money was coming to him. Prisoner had lived luxuriously at the hotel, frequently inviting his friends to supper, and had ruu up a bill for £43 in five weeks. The Rotomahana made an excursion round the harbor to-day. She was crowded with citizens, who much enjoyed the trip, and greatly admired the steamer. The public preliminary meeting resolved to telegraph to the Government to detain the captain and mate of the Minister of Marine for a full enquiry, and to prevent the sailors from being put aboard the ship. Grahamstown, Tuesday.

The lad Gollop, whose leg was broken a few days ago on the reclamation works, is doing well, and the limb will be saved. Daldy McWilliams, the yictim of the Ohinemuri outrage, is able to be about, and can walk with the aid of crutches. The medical examination confirms the suspicion that the hole in the skull found by the man Donnelly in a mullock was made during life.

Timaru, Tuesday.

At the Levels Road Board meeting to-day a resolution was passed expressing surprise at the action of the member for Geraldine, in giving notice of motion in the House that it is not advisable for the Levels Riding of the Geraldine County to be made into a new county. A reporter of the Herald asked for further information in the matter, and he was told the information had been sent by Mr Turnbull, M.H.R., to the chairman ; but the clerk positively refused to allow the reporter to see Mr. Turnbull’s telegram. The best of it is that the Levels Riding is not in Mr. Wakefield’s district, and the fact of the Board going out of their way to interfere with him at the instance of Mr. Turnbull, is considered rich, especially as Mr. Wakefield has been asked by his own constituents to oppose the new county in Timaru.