LAST NIGHT'S NEWS. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.] (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS.)

Waikato Times, Volume XV, Issue 1317, 7 December 1880, Page 3

LAST NIGHT'S NEWS. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.] (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS.)

Auckland, Last Night. Mr Stewarts house, Kerekere, Papakura, has been burned down and some notes destroyed. At the District Prize Firing to-day there were only nine competitors. Dobbs secured first prize with 54 points ; Payne second, with 53, and Moulder third, with 52.

Wellington, Last Night. Ministers are holding Cabinet meetings every day, preparing measures for next session. Movements of Ministers. The Honorable P. Whitakcr was to have left in the Wanaka for Auckland last night, but buginesti interfered. He goes by the Albion to-morrow. The Hon. Mr Bryce goes to Wanganui to attend a banquet there.

The lawlessness of life among certain orders of the population of San Francisco could not be better described than in the following letter from a paper by the last mail : — Of the many murders which have disgraced this city, that of Alexander King, a respectable youth of seventeen, by F. W. Seawert, in his saloon on Davis-street last Sunday, is the most cold-blooded and unprovoked. The young man unhappily went into the saloon with companions and ordered beer, and, on settling found that he lacked five cents, out of 70 charged for seven glasses. For this default Seawert took his revolver and shot him through the body. King died in his mother's arms, and his murderer is in jail. This is a case in which hanging is well deserved, but a sympathetic jury may find it " murder in the second degree." Thk New York Shipping List concludes a review of the sugar trade of 1879 with au expression of opinon that the average price of sugar in the markets of the world will be higher in 1880 than in 1879.