PER SPECIAL WIRE TO "STAR."

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3470, 7 February 1880, Page 2

PER SPECIAL WIRE TO "STAR."

(Pbess Association.)

AUCKLAND.

Yesterday

Stephen Hughes, rate collector of the Ponsonby District, was arrested this afternoon on an information charging him with rape upon a girl named Sarah Jane Saxon, on the 17th of December last. The girl was a serrant engaged in his house, where the offence is alleged to have been committed. The prisoner will bo brought up at t'ne Police Court in the morning and charged with the offence.

Mr John Stuart and Dr Tennant were proceeding in a buggy to Mr Stuart's farm at the Whau, when the horse shied and bolted down the bank of the river. Mr Stuart was thrown out, and the doctor, in attempting to jump from the buggy, received a severe cut on the right knee.

Mr Allan O'Neill announces himself as claimant to the Pateto block, No. 2, upon which he advanced £750 on mortgage under 23rd section Native Lands Act 1867 to a chief named Okiwi Ngatara, the document was signed in the presence Oi Messrs S. J. Edmonds, Licensed Interpreter ; B. DeThierry, Licensed Interpreter, aud P. A. Phillips, J.P., and afterwards the block was regularly surveyed by Mr Dalton, and the declaration of survey made before Mr Hugh Carleton, J.P., registration and all other necessary forms being complied with.

Mr O'Neill now claims the block which is included in tha area which Mr Shcehan is endeavoring to induce Government to forego their lieu upon, in order that it may bo acquired for a joint firm, compossd

of Messrs Walker, Jackson, Whitaker and others, all of whom have made advauces to the natives. This day. At the Police Court to-day Edward Hitchtnun was charged with deserting his wife and child ab Waimnto, Canterbury, and on the application of the Police was remanded till Monday. S. E. Hughes, charged with attempted rape upon his servant girl, Mary Jane Saxon, was remanded till Thursday at the request of his solicitor.

The case of scarlatina oa the British Empire at the quarantine station is of a ?ery mild type. There is no further outbreak.

The ship is being fumigated, aud will come up in the middle of the week ; the passengers will not come for eight days.

The Government Insurance Department has paid the insurance of £500 on the life of a Waikato settler, although he had only paid one premium conditionally on the acceptance of life and died before the completion.

' The engine ran for the first time on the Helensville railway at the Kaipara terminus.