SPECIAL TELEGRAMS. Auckland, last night.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 691, 18 November 1876, Page 2

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS. Auckland, last night.

A subscription lut is opened to defrtj oosti of English cnckoter's Tisit. The lists will bo *ent to country districts. A number of gentlemen including member* of Assembly Tmted Graba.ni'* grjund* at £1 eralie to examine the pUce tv the sit* for a ceraetry. They were greatly pleased >nd resolred that a pub io meeting b« called in Auokland to ojniider tut projjosal. Tne Auckland '• G-rnphio" it dead. Subscription's in nd of Mr* Loatbaro, Queen's Redoubt, amount to £25. Produoß sale: N*w potnto«», Id per lb ; Pmvinci.il o e«"e, 61 to7d ; bacon 5Jd >o 7*d ; fowls, Is 91 to 3s ; duck*. It to 2* 3 1 ; butter, 6}i to 7Jd &APIKB, listni^ht. A dinner is to he given next week by V* eetllers to Mr Ormon^, tU« lit* Superintendent, as ft recognition of hit •urviL-es to tho prr>tinoe. A &I»ori hit been sentenced to four month's imprisontnont for an attempted orimmrtl »»H»ult on an Emopean married woman at Taradale. H- attempted to break ia In r house. She ran out of tb^> bick do >r, the Maoiif Lowed bar, caught tier and knot-ke I her do*n. A ietil«r heurd her sotvam and went Io her »s-is-(ance, caueht tlie Maori and handed him over to custody. \ man n«infd Crsker waa charged wi h oriminally amulting two little grl«, ag«d retp«ctire * six unA four yrara. The •vulence giv<n wa« of a most disguring cliaraoter. He lurrd the poor cbildr«o tr> a "ark spot nt port Ahuhiri by girine ihem -wcet meat*. 1 here he t-tfeoted hu purpose. He wms committed for trial. Wellington, last ni^ht. A lot of p r z cnt'li have been brought up from • ant:>rl>ury for so' tiers in this Kmvinoe (We'liugt<)»), aluo some for a;io', wmoayst them three imre-hro- 1 hlkii th»rn cAtile f>r Captun Eraser, of go on hy the WelliuglOD.