SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

Thames Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 1913, 8 December 1874, Page 3

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

(Per Anglo-Australian Telegraph Press Agency.) Auckland, Monday, 12 noon. A fire occurred in Eden Terrace, which destroyed a house occupied by T. Luptou. The house was uninsured.—ln the Supreme Court tho caso of George Thome is continued. Ivy, manager of the Bank of New Zealand, is being examined at great length,—ln tho Police Court the charge for breach of tho Licensing Act against Corcoran's barman was dismissed.—Tho caso of ar.-on against the girl at the North Shore is proceeding. 7.50 p.m. By the fire at Eden Terrace the Luptons lost, besides furniture, savings amouming to £70, of which £G7 was in one pound notes.—Cecilia Allen was charged with arson at the Police Court to-day. The evidence of most of the witnesses detailed the circumstances connected with the (ire as already reported. Sergeant-Major Pardy deposed that he arrested the girl on the charge, aud, in consequence of information received, he went witli Howard to an unoccupied house, where he found a lot of furniture saved from the fire. The girl said she gut it out herself, with the assistance of two others. The chiffioner was very heavy, and she said she got it out herself. He thought it was impossible, when she showed him it was not by " collaring " it. He told her that he believed she set fire to the place, and he must arrest hei' He explained the matter to her, and said that whatever she said he should bo obliged to repeat to the magistrate. She stoutly denied having done it. She said all her own things were burnt, and asked was it likely, if she had done it, she should not have saved her own things. She subsequently said she had lit a fire under the oven, although Mrs Howard told her not to do so as it was dangerous, there being a hole in the bricks, which might cause the house to be burnt. He asked berj how the ti-tree got under the house which Clarke found. She said Howard put it there. On the 29th the girl's mother visited her and urged her to tell the truth about the fire, and on the following day she told witness that she would out with it, when she said, "I first set fire to the brushwood outside the house which caught the fence, but did not touch the house, as the wind was blowing the other way. I then took home pieces of burning ti-tree. and put them under the house. I then ' commenced to get out the furniture when Clarke came up and put the firo out. After he had gone away I set firo to the house again under thfe verandah, in tho way described, when the two girls came up and assisted to get out the furniture." He asked her'wby she did not confess to her mother, when she replied that if she had told her mother she would havo got a severe beating. His Worship said it would be too late to go into the second case, He noticed that the girl throughout the case did not feel the position she had placed herself in, The case was then adjourned until Monday next. —At the opening of George Thome's case in tho Supreme Court, the Chief Justice said: -Have no accounts been filed at all? Mr MaoOormick said: No, your Honor; besides, it can be shown that the bankrupt paid away £8 000 at the beginning of December to persons to whom he was not indebted. — His Honor said: This will never do. It will come at last, I am afraid, to a strug - gle between the bankrupt and the Court, I shall very much regret it if I am obliged for the first time to put the ex - treme power of the Court in force against a gentleman in bankrupt's position. I shall have, I foresee, to demand a separ - ate statement of accounts with each person bankrupt had dealings with.— lamination of Mr Ivy, manager of the Bank of New South Wales was continued at great length. It related chiefly to items of account, and also to cerlaiu bills of lading which Mr Ivy said Thome obtained by misrepresentation.—The Star discusses the question of whether Mr Yogel is now a member of the Cabiuet or not. It says Ministers, go out with the retiring Governor, who appoints the Ministry. Again, Mr Yogel not being here to be sworn in (the Star contends), disqualifies him as a member of the M iaistry.—Sailed : The s.s.' Hero' for Sydney, with 25 passengers.—Joseph Bennett, who has just returned from Sydney, says there is a certainty of a Victorian cricket team visiting Auckland in a few months hence. There is no financial difficulty; the secretary to the Victorians having stated that either a large proportion of the gate money at the matches, or a guaranteed sum, will suit tho wishes of the Victorians.