TELEGRAMS

Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 134, 14 March 1872, Page 3

TELEGRAMS

GHEVILT.K it CO.'S (Reuter's Agents) ExrilESS, + CHANGE OF TXCENDTA R TSAI.— ACCUSED DISCITAIiGED.

ARRIVAL OF

SHIP ENGLAND

SMALL POX ON BOARD

SIXTEEN DEATHS.

Auckland, 8.48 p.m. At the Police Court tin’s morning William Johnston was charged with having set lire to a bakehouse at Newton.

Constable Clark deposed to having helped to extinguish the fire on the night of March 7th. At that time he went inside the bakehouse and found the prisoner there with a

lighted candle. At the spot where the fire originated lie found a stack of firewood, beneath which a number of light boards and greasy rags had been apparently carefully laid. James Burns, a tinker in the employment of the prisoner, deposed—That he had put the firewood there, but that there were then no greasy rags or light wood underneath. It .vas usual to leave greasy rags about the bakehouse. He believed the fire to have been accidental.

Tlic accused was discharged. At the Sittings in Banco of the Supreme Court the Thames cases were postponed. Southern telegrams via Kati Kati state that the ship England has arrived in Wellington with small pox on hoard, and that sixteen passengers died of it on the passage out. The ship is strictly quarantined. The disease originated amongst the Scandinavians immigrants. The medical officer has been arrested on a charge of incoinpetency. The Hon. 1). McLean has liberated the Maori prisoners in Dunedin.