Telegraphic News.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 941, 4 July 1878, Page 2

Telegraphic News.

SPEGI4L TBLISGRAMS. AUCKLAND, last night. Mr Lawson, the Railway Commissioner, has decided upon a material redaction in the charges for live stock,. and agricultural produce. Coal is to be lowered fco six shillings per ton from Huntley, In fubure, all goods for Waipa, Cambridge and other districts will be transhipped at Newcastle, instead of at Mercer.

Mr Lawson estimates that. a central station in Auckland would cost £70,000. The Government will not undertake it, but will take the line to the wharf.

Mr Dargaville sold his bushes, tramway, and timber rights, in Northern Wairoa, to the Union Sash and Door Companylfor £25,000, reserving to himself 11,000 acres of freehold along the river bauks, which he intends to cut up into farms of one and two hundred acres for bona fide settlers. He, also, keeps his township properties. At the Supreme Court, the judge, in passing sentence of six months' imprisonment with hard labour on Mrs Major Croker, regretted that he should have to do so on a woman who had occupied her positiou, but one of the moat damaging things in the case was the fearful evidence given by her children. GRAHAMSTOWJST, last night. Brother Whitakei*, Provincial Grand Master, was entertained at a banquet by the Sir Walter Scott lodge last night. Gomez, who drifted away itr a dismasted schooner, turned up, having pulled twenty-four hours in a small dingy Avibh a rough sea. WELLINGTON, Tuesday Referring to the charge against O'Connor for attempting to poison Mr Light, la'ndlord of Barrett's Hotel, the Chief Justice said as long as tho jury thought O'Connor put poison in the glass, no matter with what object, they could find a true bill against him. The Grand Jury, instead ot trading a true bill against O'Connor tor administering poison with intent to kill William Light, found a true biil that the prisoner was guilty of administering poison with a view to injury, which is only a misdemeanor.