UTALIAn TELEGRAMS.

Waikato Times, Volume XI, Issue 892, 12 March 1878, Page 2

UTA LIAn TELEGRAMS.

Lliff.'J'VßU'S SPECIAL TELEGRAHS.J

SYDNEY, March 8,

All quotations are unchanged. MELBOURNE, March 8,

Mr Berry's motion regarding the changes under the 45 th section of the Constitution Act has been carried by 48 to 12. The House adjourned to the 19th instant. March 9. It is reliably stated that the difficulties betweeu the Council and Assembly will be settled. The Council meets on Thursday, when Mr Jenner will probably move for a Conference. SP EGIAL TEL EG RAMS.

[press agency.]

AUCKLAND, last night. The Cabinet Council to-tlay considered the gazetting of Mr Stout as Attoney. General, but differed the matter till the Hon. Mr Sheehan's return from the Waikato. At the Police Court James Honisou was charged with stealing j, poney worth eight pounds, the propei ty of David Bruce, of Alexandra. Sub-Inspector Pardy asked for remand. W. Home, for prisoner, opposed the application, and said tbe police were being made tools of to extort money from him. Tbe Bench granted a remand till Monday. Bail was accepted, himself in fifty pounds, and two sureties of twenty-five pounds. WELLINGTON, Saturday. It is now certain that Mr Bunny will not resign his seat for Wairarapa. A person named Jacobsen, said to be related to the Bishop of Exeter, was brought up to-day, and remanded on the charge of obtaining goods and money by false pretences. He has been living in the best style, and passed himself off' as a .Russian count. NELSON, Saturday. A HORRIBLE OASIS.— PUBLIC INDIGNATION. Florence B. Joseph was charged before the Magistrate yesterday with indecently assaulting a girl twelve years and six m,.nths old. Tho evidence occupied till 8 p m., when the Bench reserved its decision till this afternoon, when they committed prisoner for trial, allowing bail. The defendant being released, he was chaised and seized by several men who were present ; a rope was tied round his neck and he was dragged half throttled through the streets to his shop in Trafalgarstreet, when Morris Levy, father of one of his victims (there are more than one), attacked him with a loaded hunting whip, and administered a most unmerciful hammering. The Bishop of Nelson, and one of two others interfered, and the wretched man, bruised and bleeding, with his clothes torn to rags, and several teeth out, escaped into his shop. 0 AMARU, Friday. In the District Court to-day, before Judge Ward, Bridget Flannery, domestic servant, was charged with stealing from her employers a quantity of forks, Bpoons, handker chiefs, &c. The accused pleaded guilty. Amongst the witnesses to character called by the accused's counsel (Mr O'Meagher) was a young" man named George Harris, who stated that he was engaged to be married to accused, and that he was still willing to marry her. The judge, addresssing the prisoner, said he could nut make up his mind to send her to pris.ui. He praised Harris's conJuut, and told her she oup'ht ever graietully remember the man -who, noth withstanding her guilt, was willing- to marry her. Accnsed was discharged. The Oamaru Race Meeting promises to be the finest ever held in ! the District : — North Otago Turf i (Jlub Handicap : 3 to 1 against j Ariel ; 4 to 1 against Bide-a-wee, j Templeton, and Fi*h-hook ; 5 to I j against Hippocampus, Mirilie, Blue Petei, and Maritaua j 8 to 1 against Unknown ; 10 to 1 against others. , : Tradesmen's Handicap ; 3 to 1 <

against Foul Play, Titania, Ariel, and Templetou ; 4 to 1 against Izaak Walton, Mirille, Blue Peter ; from 6 to 1 to 10 to 1 against others. Eclipse is a fnvorite for the ' Hurdle Race, about 3 to 2. A fire has occurred at the Te Kopura Company's bush, Wairoa, destroying several hundred thousand feet of timber. DUNEDIN^ Monday. The crops have suffered considerably, especially the oats. WELLINGTON, Monday. | H.M.S. Wolverine, with the Commodore, has arrived. CHA K LESION, Monday. A fearful gale has occurred, and, during which tbe Catholic Church was blown down, and great damage was done to other property.