LAST NIGHT'S NEWS. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH]. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] The Late Auckland Murder. Wellington. Last Night.

Waikato Times, Volume XV, Issue 1297, 21 October 1880, Page 3

LAST NIGHT'S NEWS. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH]. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] The Late Auckland Murder. Wellington. Last Night.

The Cabinet considered the case of the Fijian murderer, but resolved to obtain further information before sanctioning or commuting the sentence.

The American Harvest. -An American agricultural journal for July 10 publishes upwards of a thousand reports from contributors in every part of the United States and Canada on the harvest of the year. An analysis of these returns shows that the crops this year will be very good indeed. Here and there deficiencies and even failures, of one crop or another occur ; but even in these sections other crops are excellent, while the outlook for the country as a whole is emphatically good for nearly every crop except hay, which nearly everywhere has been rendered very short by the killing of clover laat winter and the severe drought during the past spring and summer. Owing to the increased acreage under both winter and spring wheats and the fine condition of both crops as a whole there is now no doubt but last year's aggregate product is nearly 450,000,000 bushels (56,250,000 qw.) will be considerably exceeded this, year, while th« quality of the grain from present indications will be better. The Dunedin Herald, in a vigorous article on railway management, says:— •' We would once again protest against the miserable jealousy of its neighbours that is shown more or less by every town in the colony. Invercargill hates Dunedin; Dunedin vexes Chnstchuroh ; the North Island denounces the South; and the South Island mistrusts the North. At home, New Zealand is very generally supposadto be an unimportant district in Australia. In New Zealand, every city— almost every town— strives to monopolise tba trade and public expenditure or the colony, and seeks to build itself up by the ruin of its rivals. We sometimes question whether a true national feeling can ever be evolved from such unpromising materials." The Great Council of the canton of Thurgftu, one of the famous fruit districts of Europe, have just elaborated a law for the plantation of fruit trees along the public roads. The trees are to stand at a distance of 25 to 30 metres from each other.