(Per Anglo-Australian Telegraph Agency.) Auckland, Monday.

Waikato Times, Volume V, Issue 415, 12 January 1875, Page 2

(Per Anglo-Australian Telegraph Agency.) Auckland, Monday.

The signatures to the petition askiug Sir GK Grey to j stand for City West, number over five hundred more than j has ever aB yet been polled by eny candidate in City West ! elections. The charge of arson against Kemsley, occupied the Supremo Court all day, it will not be concluded till tomorrow- The evidence is identical with that given in the polite Court, The Cospatrick calamity ia the sole topic of conversation. Harrowing 6cenea occurred during the circulation of the extras yesterday morning. Some friends of those ©n board when first apprised in this way of the caUmity fainted. Insurance losses— New Zealand Office, £10,000 ; South. British £4,148 ; National, £915. Arrived— Taranaki, S.a. Sailed— lndy Bird, 8.8. i Wellington, Monday.

The New Zealand Times furnishes the following particulars. The Cospal riok was a frigate buiit ship of 1 122 tons, commanded by Captain r^insht:. brot her of Captain Elmslieof the Sydney clipper Sobraon. She was built of Molmain teak, on the Aberdeen clipp' r principal, and made several voyages from Calcutta to London, in the interest of her owner Duncan Dunbar. A singulor fatality attachet itself to the vessels which have belonged to this now extinct firm. The Duncan Dunbar which was wrecked off the Sydney Heads in August 1857, was one of their lino. The sole lemajniue; vessel of the fleet now that the Cospatrick has been burnt, is the Dunbar. l'he Cospajrick waa on her second voyag to New Zealand, under the flag of Shaw Saville and Co. who purchased her about two years ago fer £11,000. Her first voyage to this colony was to tV.it Cbalmer wiere she arrived in July 1573. From Port Chalmers she went to Newcastle, and there loaded coal for Calcutta. From thence she convened coolies to Demerar», where she loat'ed sugar for London, arriving about July last, the was then plrced on the berth far Auckland, took in cargo at the East Indian export (Jocks alongside the Langsione, now ljing at Wellington wharf. The second officer of the Cospitrick waa on the point of accepting a similar post on the Langstone, but he decided to remain by the Coapatrick The doomed vessel left the docks on the Bth September, in company with the ship Samuel Plimsoll, bound for Sydney. Four days later the Langstone sailed for Wellington,'but nothing was seen ol the Caspatrick on the voyage although the Samuel Plimsoll waa lighted »a Ispoken twice. The berth vacated by the Cospatnek in ;he dockwas afterwards occupied by the Glenora. which arrived a Auckland on the 4th insb. Every precaution for the safety of the passeugers in the event of tire or shipwreck Was enforced by the Immigration .Board before the Coapattick was allowed to proceed to sea and a new apparatus for the rapid launching of her boats was insisted upon by the board, btsidra the addition of an extra engine in case of tire*

Christchurch, Monday. A girl named Isabella Thompson, aged thirteen, was found dead with her throat cut, in a paddock at Ly ttelton, at 6 a.m ,on Saturday. The appearance of the body and dotbes leads to the inference that the girl had been outraged. A man named Altred Osborne, recently released from- gaol wnere he had been confined for twelve month's for vagrancy has been arrested on suspicion. A reian named W. K. Grant, a chemist, employed by Gould and Co., was found dead in bed yester<faj morning. He is supposed to have died from an overdose of morphia which he was in the habit of taking to induce sleep. The yaclit Ripple was capsized by a sudden squall in karoa harbour on Saturday. Sayle, the owner, and C. A. Nalder, solicitor, were drowned ; two others Bwain ashore.

London, December 29. The emigrant ship Cospatrick, bound for Auckland, was burned off the Cape on tho 19th November. Only the mate and two cf the crew were saved, and it is supposed that the remainder of the crew and emigrants, 4GO souls in all, have perished. The origin of the lire 13 unknown ; but in an hour after the flames broke oat the vessel wus completely gutted. Hundreds cast themselves overboard, but only to perish by drowning. Captain A. Klmslie and Dr Cadle stayed by the ship till the last moment, and then jumped overboard and wore drowned. Two boats were filled with 30 <ach, under the first and second officers, and put off from the ship. Of one of them no tidings have yet been received. After being afloat for ten days the other was sighted and rescued by the ship British Sceptre, and contained only three survivors' out of thirty. These were Messra MacDonald, Lewia, and Cottee. They were compelled to subsist upon the bodies of their dead comrades. The others died raving mad. A Cospatriek Relief Fund has been started. The Lord Mayor of London and the owners of. the veasei, Meaars Shaw, Saville and Co, subscribed £200 each for the three survivors.