SPECIAL TELEGRAMS. (From our own Correspondents.) Auckland, Monday.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 598, 21 March 1876, Page 2

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS. (From our own Correspondents.) Auckland, Monday.

"William Henry Campbell, an inveterate blackguard and loafer, was to-day charged with vagrancy ; also with obtaining money under false pretences- Two young men deposed that prisoner had come to them representing himself as a detective, telling them he had seen them under certain circumstances with girls in the Domain, and obtained money not to "split." Two similar charges were proved. The sentences altogethor amount 'to two years and three months. The rascal *is believed to have carried on the game successfully fdr somfe time. — Two novices in crime were charged with being found 'in a 1 bad house. Both seemed more sinned against than sinning. One wits remanded, the other was discharged with a caution — Jfohn McQuillan, for brutally assaulting his wife in Parnell by dragging her out of bed, beating-her with the heel of his boot, and knocking her head against the wall, was sentenced to four months. Aiobbery was 'committed since Saturday night at the Te Kopuru Saw Mill office. The place was broken into, the books and papers stolen, but ho money. The offender is not yet traced. The Rev E. N. Bree, aged 68, has married Miss Hewlett, aged '20. — [More power to him ! He hag our hearty and sincere congratulations on the event. — Ed. W.T,] There was a large "attendance at the Hendersons Mill races on Friday.

HANDICAP HURDLE RACE, ' Mr Ellis's b R Paddy, lOat frlbi '1 Mp Hen -food's b q Secret (late GtarAtboj), list 2 Mr Abbott'i Flytj-llighf (l»te Chrjailrt) ]Ost 41b . ... 3 Mr Martin's b m Mary !A.nn 'Vas scratched.

SIAIBEN tLATB. Mr Melee's b q llobiason Crusoe, Aged, 9sf4lb 1 Mr Campbell'i eh q De'rtj, 4 ye»ro, S«t'lllbi '-2 Mr Elhs'i eh q Sam, r 6 jears, '9sf4lb 3

HENDERSONS MILL HANDICAP. Mr McQee's b m VI ay Moon, 4 years, Bst 4lbi 1 Mr Kelly •' t q Dainty, aged, Bat lfilbs ... 2 The ball on St Patrick's night, At the Choral Hall, was a greatt success. Scarlet fever has broken out at Ccroraandel. A child has died, and a woman and child "are lying ill with this 'disease. The Bafchurst burr is making its appear, atice at Tauranga. i

Taurahga. Winmta Is* said to 'have been seen here last Wednesday. He had tea with another native at a boarding 'house. The police are on the alert. The Governor an'd party got lost oh the road from. Waikato to Ohinetnutu. — — [Clearly a Tauranga ' canard' ; but better be lost on that road tban suffer' the hardships of reaching Obinemutu via Tauranga.— Ed. W.T.] Dr Pollen 'and Lord H T hipps arrived yesterday and left for tiotorua to-daj. Majx>r Pitt has been committed for trial on the first charge of bribery.

Port Chalmers. The ship Wellington »vas towed in last night, and, despite a cage of typhoid fever still in hospital^ Captain Thoihson, Health Officer, cleaied her. Dr Drysdale refused to counte"nance the proceedings till the Board of Health Committee had been appealed to.