SPECIAL TELEGRAMS. (From our Own Correspondents.) Auckland, Monday evening.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 533, 19 October 1875, Page 2

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

(From our Own Correspondents.) Auckland, Monday evening.

In the Police Court Kirby's case was adjourned till Thursday, at the the tequest of the Crown Prosecutor. John Green was fined five pounds for kicking his paramour, Elizabeth Morris. James B. Austin, a young" man, was charged with stealing a watch &c, value twenty pounds from John Geary, recently arrived per White Eagle. He was committed for trial. He fainted in the dock when the committal was announced. In the Supreme Court a verdict for plaintiff for £245 damages was given in the case of Hutchinson v Marsh Brown, Kawita, for breach of agreement by non-deHvery of gum. Anderson, master of the schooner Susan, fell overboard between Tiri and Eangitoto during a dark night. He swam a quarter of a mile with all his clothes, and a heavy top coat and got aboard his vessel. Russell. Arrived the whaling barque Bartbalomew Gosnold, from Antarctic whaling grounds, with 2,150 barrells of oil all told. She is 40 months out, and had to put into Abouke> Bay in the Solomon Group, the ship leaking very badly. They landed part of her cargo on the reef, and lightened the ship which stopped the leak. She then proceeded to this port for supplies, and will* sail in a few days for Bedford. Capt Wills states that he

found the Solomon Islanders in a state - of warfare and cannibalism. « * Taujunga. The revenue cutter Bingleader, has gone in search of the missing new cutter Blonde, the property of Wrigley and Son, brewers. She is supposed to have foundered i& a gale, off Mercury Island. A large number of Paterere natives are in town re the Kaimi gold prospecting. GRAHAMBTOWN. An inquest was held this afternoon, on the bodies of two little children Patrick and Mary A Wall murdered by their mother with an axe, on Saturday afternoon. It seems that the woman had been given to habits of intemperance for a long time. She took in washing and was generally able to do her work. Her husband was in constant work so that they were not in wa|t, but the house was very bare of furniture and most of her earnings were spent in drink. She is not known to have procured much during the : three days previous to the murder, but the stoppage is supposed to have rendered her temporarily insane. Her husband says he went to work as usual on Saturday morning, when his wife appeared in usual health and spirits but some of the neighbours state she had been rather strange for two days. .On being taken to the watch-hoase, her clothes were covered with blood, and in reply to a question from Inspector Bullen she said, " I must be mad." Inspector said, "why what makes you say that?" she replied, "Because I have killed my children, but they told me to do it." It is not clear who was meant> but it is thought she imagined she heard voices and was in a state of delirum. On Sunday she did not seem inclined to talk but remained sullen and unconcerned. To-day she is in much the same condition. The general impression is that the woman is insane, but her conduct in prison has not been that of an insane woman. Her husband at the inquest this afternoon, deposed that they lived very happily together, though she drank beer. He had ! never seen her" -chastise the children harshly. The morning he left home he i noticed nothing strange in her manner. The woman will be committed to take her trial on a charge of wilful murder. It is a prerogative of the Supreme Court to deal with the question ef insanity. A deputation to Warden Fraser urged the construction of roadato Tairua and Ohinemnri. He replied that Sir George Grey was doing his utmost *o gst them undertaken. Mercer. The son of an emigrant, r nine years old, fell over the wharf on Sunday evening, and drifted underneath. He clung to a pile for ten minutes, till rescued <by Constable Limmer, who heard the cries. Wellington. In the rifle mateh — eight volunteer officers of Wellington verzus eight of Nelson — Wellington scored 390 and Nelson 474. Dunedin. The Jury in Flexman's case ga\e a verdict of fifteen hundred pounds against the Standard Insurance Co. The steamer Bruce is a hopeless wreck, and was sold for a hundred and fifty pounds. The company has cabled for another steamer.