LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Patea Mail, Volume II, Issue 184, 13 January 1877, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[Pick Press Agency.] AUCKLAND. January 0. Tlio Rev. J. Coss, of Sydney, refused a call from the Presbyterians of: Reninora. The Grand Lodge of Good Templars was formally opened to-day. There were 51 representatives present and 32 visitors. The trial of Curtin for the murder of Denis Shanaghan is si ill proceeding. Mrs Rhanaghan gave evidence that, two months before the murder, she and a girl namsd Annie McDonald, when on their way home from church, went into Curtin’s and had tea. January 10. Curtin was found guilty, and sent (mend to death. Mr lines, for the defence, called Annie McDonald, who said she had heard Rhanaghan threaten to kill Curtin ; had ween him driving prisoner’s cattle ; eight months ago Curtin went to Curtin’s imnsg and Shanaghan chased him away. John Parr, a settler, deposed that Shanaghan had unde threats against the prisoner, and that they vow frequently quarrelled. Tn the thirty-second half-yearlv report of the New Zealand Tumi ranee C.nnnany the Directors sla f e tint the mtt premiums received -ware £73.389 15s 3d ; interest, rent, and transfer fees, £9.504 3s 51 ; with amount receive 1 from last half-year, total, £80.1 03 Ids. Losses paid and provided for. £53,510 18s 0-1, after carrying £35.000 to the reinsurance fund, which now stands at £70,000. There remains a balance to the profit and loss account of £19.060 12s lOd ; recommended to he appropriated to payment of dividend, £15,000 ; carried forward to next half-year, £4,660 12s lOd. The accounts of the old Company have been closed. Amount of paid-up capital, £200,000. Mr J. L Wilson was appointed to the vacancy caused by the death of Mr W. C. Wilson. January 11. A special meeting of the Harbour Board was called to consider the question of the enlargement of the dock. The dock under construction has only twelve feet on the sill. It would he necessary to dredge the clrmncl five hundred feet long. The quarantined passengers pcrjAnstralia have b' ,r, n released. Tim Grand Lodge hist evening finallv unproved of the action of the English TcmpGrs on the imgro question, and decided to snpnort tlmm. WELLINGTON. January 9. At the Primitive Methodist Eonf 'renc 0 , which is now being h"hl in Wellington, the following ministerial nnpnintmenfs b->vc been made :—Auckland, first. W. TinsVy : Auckland, second. B. J. Westbrooke ; Thames, J Nixon ; New Plymouth, J. Rtandrin and J. Glover ; Foxton, P. W. Jones ; Wellington, J. Dnmhell and A. Jeynos ; Christchurch. W. Harris ; Greendale, W. R. Potter : Ashburton, J. Sharp ; Timaru, G. Ward ; Oamaru. one from England ; Dunedin, J. Ward, and one from England ; Invercargill, W. J. Deane. January 10.

The Primitive Methodist Conference closed to-day. The Church reports of last rear show increased prosperity. Five new clmroiiea have been built. Two additional ministers are on their way out from England, and others are shortly expected. Tho Conference of 1878 is to he held in Auckland next January. January 1 2. O'Rhea reports produce prices ns follows : —Adelaide, Flour. £l6 10s to £l7 ; Colonial, £l4 to £l4 10s; oats, 2s 94 to 3s 2d, for milling ; bran, Is Id ; wheat, milliner, none ; chicken, 4s G1 ; hams, 8d to 9d ; bacon, 6d'to 7.Jd ; nollard. Is 104 ; maize, 4s 3d ; potatoes, 80s to 90s. On Wednesday night hast, Captain Renner of the Hannah Barrett, missed dry channel, and ran into False hay. and on the rocks and abandoned by Captain and crow. The llaw\a sighted her in coming from Picton, took her off, aad towed Iter into Wellington. Had lost her rudder, four-foot, and most of Iter copper. She is insured in Standard office, for £4OO : , National, £4OO. 1 Dr Lemon accompanies Hon. G. McLean to Australian Cable Conference. I

The Port Darwin line is interrupted North of Reake. CHRISTCHURCH. January 9. The Local Board of Health are going well to work to appoint an Inspector of Nuisances at. £275 a year, and have decided a medical ofiicer at £250 a year. January 11. A Canterbury passenger by the mail afoanvT Australia writes to (he Christchurch ' apers, complaining bitterly of the treatment received hy all the passengers while in quarantine in Auckland. lie slates that the quarantine barracks were flllliy, and without firmer, and that no food was received from Auckland for two or three days. He also states that the mails were'fumigated in a very inefficient mann°r and urges that an inquiry should he made into the whole circumstances of flic ease. A new American reaping and binding machine has been tried here with great success. It is calculated to save Gj per acre in the cost of lahou", and a’so effect a considorab’e saving in grain, which is tied up much cleaner than men can do it January 12. At a special sitting of the Court of Appeal held this morning, before the Chief Justice, and Judge Johnston, in the case of Regina, v. Woodgate, Dr. Foster and Mr Rogers appeared for prisoner, who was convicted at Nelson for the murder of bis illegitimate child in a lonely part of Queen Charlotte's Sound. Points raised by his counsel were—first, that the child had not been born ; second, that there was not sufficient corroborative testimony to enable the case to go to the jury on prisoner’s own admission of guilt. The case was argued at, considerate length by Dr. Fodir, who quoted a large number of authorities on the subject. Ultimately, the conviction by the jury was affirmed. The other case before the Court was that ofT. IT. Knibbs, who was committed last session of stealing a lefcterfrnm-t.be private box at, the post office. Point raised by counsel was that the letter on being placed in the letter box, ceased to be vested in the postrnasT”, who was the prosecutor. The Court held this not, tenable, and affirmed the conviction by jury. UUNEDIX January 9. Christina Clarke, of Havelock, near Lawrence, was committed for trial for wilful murder by a Coroner’s Jury. She gave birth to a child on the 27th n’timo, and three days after the infant was found wrapped up in flannel in her bedroom by one of Tier umghhors. Medical evidence testified to the child having been born alive. January 11. A serious accident occurred this morning near the southern cemetery, where excavations are being carried on by means of prison labor. There were 35 men present, and a shot was put in at the top of the bluff, about 50 feet high. The, men wwe then removed to a distance of 100 yards. On the shot going off, 1,500 tons of earth weredisplaced the fragments being scatter ed through the air in n'l directions. Part of the shower o ! ’ earth fell noon the g"onp of prisoners and laborers, knocking four of them down. One prisoner had his leg broken, another was rendered insensible from a severe wound on the back of the head ; the other two were not much injured. Another necident occurred at the, sanm place during the afternoon, bv which a prisoner had the flesh stripned off the bone of his leg for several inches. January 12. The Church trustees have recommended Presbyterian Synod to estabh’sh a Lhair of National Science in Otago University. GRAHA.USTOWN. January 11 At a conference of Cm Borough and County Councils last night, a resolution was passed affirming (he desirability of the Borough and County amalgamating. January 12. The County Council has voted their Chairman a salary of .£2OO a-ycar, and one guinea per day for expenses, while travelling on Countv business. G PLYMOUTH. January 11. The Ilcafhcote Coal Company struck the main scam of coal yesterday in their shaft, at a depth of 24G feet. HOKITIKA. January 10. Henry Youughaspurchaacd Learmonth’s six hundred acre lease on Mount Raugitoto. for £SOO cash, and £5,000 in paid-up shares on the formation of a enmnanv. The lease adjoins the prospector’s mine and is between that and Hudson’s. The Company is to he called the Zealand Silver Company, to he registered under the Joint Stock Company’s Act ; capital, £40.000 in 8,000 shares of £5 each. The promoters are fifteen in number, ami reserve 2,000 paid-up shares and £I,OOO cash on the formation of the Company. Mr Young has engaged (lie services of (lie original prospectors, and starts for the mine in a few days.

ENGLISH AND AUSTRALIAN. MELBOURNE. January 1L Ireland, tlie well-known barrister, is dead. LONDON, January t). A meeting of flic Conference was bold on Monday. Salisbury refused to admit the arguments of the Turkish delegates, who were equally persistent in tlie rejection of the conditions proposed by tbo representatives of the European powers, and entered into a debate on tbe question of guarantee, especially with reference to the proposed international commission.