TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 5821, 25 November 1879, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(PER PRESS AGENCY.) Auckland, Monday. Harris’s mill was insured in the Royal for £1350. It will not cover the loss. The larger or lower mill was uninjured, so that the cutting of logs will not be discontinued. The Acclimatisation Society has liberated 2500 brown trout in the Mangawhera River, Upper Waikato. Mr. Tole, Commissioner of Crown Lands, and father of the member for Eden in the House of Representatives, died this afternoon, after a short illness. Grahamstown, Monday. The borough turncock, William Laurie, was engaged in removing an iron water-pipe from under the goods wharf, when it fell, alighting on his left leg, and breaking it above the ancle. An alarm was given, and the injured man was conveyed home. There was another breaking down to-day in the face of the Alburnia drive, leaving as good a show as ever. Sales, 755.; buyers, 725. 6d.; sellers, 775. 6d. New Plymouth, Monday. Hill, the hospital steward, has been committed for trial on a charge of committing an indecent assault on a female patient. The hearing of the case occupied three days. The accused, who reserved his defence, was admitted to bail—himself in £SOO aud two sureties in £25 each. The accused formerly was hospital sergeant to the 57th Regiment, and was in the Crimean war. He was in good circumstances aud was much respected. The prosecutrix is a German immigrant, and was taken to the hospital in a state of exhaustion consequent on giving birth to a child, and on want of care in her confinement. Dunedin, Monday. The privileges for the Spring Race Meeting and Agricultural Show realised £l5O, against £2OO last year. Christchurch, Monday. Last night a fonr-roomed cottage at the back ot Wilkins’ store caught fire. After doing a good deal of damage to the _ sitting-room the fire was got under. The furniture was insured for £350 in the New Zealand Company. The building is also believed to he insured. Nelson, Monday. A man named Edward Gough Thompson fell off the wharf at Motneka early yesterday, and was drowned. He had been to Nelson with a number of excursionists to see the circus, aud was returning when the accident occurred. Napier, Monday. There is no truth whatever in the statement made in Saturday’s Herald, that scab had made its appearance in Hawke’s Bay. The sheep inspector emphatically denies it, and it turns out that the statement was made under a misconception as to the locality, which is to the northern boundary of Hawke’s Bay, but more than 50 miles from the province itself. At an inquest held on the fire atNorsewood at the Working Men’s Club, the j nry returned a verdict that the fire was wilfully caused by Edward Anderson Larawig, the person carrying on the business and owning the premises, which were insured for £3OO in the North British Company. The weather continues very wet. Feed is very abundant. Nearly all the shearing is over, and much of the wool has been already shipped.