NEW ZEALAND. [BY TELEGRAPH.-PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1950, 6 January 1885, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND. [BY TELEGRAPH.-PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

The Hinemoa ai rived this morning witn Sir Julius Vogcl and family, the hoa. Mr Buckley, Messis U. S Cooper (UnderSecretaiv), Mitchell (Private Secretary), and (iaviu. The Hint- moa leaves again this evening, lat it is not known what her destination is

CHRISTCHURCII, Saturday. The Southern Cross Petioleutn Company directors report the receipt of a telegram stating that the depth of No. 3 bore on Tuesday was 525 feet, the rock being soft and broken, with oil showing and treely.

gas coining TAUPO, Monday. Three thousand eight lmndied fat wetheis arrived to-day from Hawke's Bay, John Dougherty m chaige. They are for Jonathan Brow n, Tauiaugn. The weather has been very bad for sheep driving, the roads being much cut up, notwithstanding which the sheep are in excellent condition. This is the largest number that has ever been driven in one mob through here. Sixty-two men and officers of the A..C have loft this place by boat for Te Kano. The rest of the working party that are to construct \l\e Taupo-Wanganui road , will leave this week. Seven men and one sergeant remain in charge of this station.

BLENHEIM, Monday. Tozer's stoic at Tuamarina, with the contents, was totally destroyed by fire on Cause unknown.

Saturday night. GISBORNE, Sunday. Further news from Tolago Bay «Utes that the boat in winch the young women Harvey were, drifted down the river on to the bar, on which a heavy sea was breaking, and capsized. The body of Maggie Harvoy was found eight miles away on the beach, but the body of Sarah h. Harvey had not been found when tlio ,

iiicsscngcr left. At the inquest on the body ot the little boy Fuilay, a verdict of " Found drowned '' was returned.

WELLINGTON, Saturday. The criminal calendar for the Supremo Court session^, w liil.li opiui on Monday, contains the names (if se\en alleged offenders. The principal case is that ol Waring Taylor. John ! aing, chief cook of the Arawa, was this afternoon found in an insensible condition in the forehold of that ressel. On examination it w.w found that lie had sustained severe injuries to his head, apparently from a fall. No one on board appeuw to know how the man met with his injuries. The symptoms seem to indicate that the skull is fractured. .Sunday. His Excellency the Go\ernor returns to Christohureh to morrow

DUNE DIN, Saturday. GcraM Fitzgerald was brought up at Police Court to diy. cha'ged with the murder of William Meldrum, at New thorne, and was committed foi trial. Tiie liujiiut on the guard, John William Whttehead. resulted in a verdict of " Accidental death." The chief witnesses were the assistant guard and the mail agent. Ihe latter deposed that Whitehead told him that one of the carriages was so crowded he did not Lite to pass tluough. Sunday. The principal business to comt before the Presl)vtennn Synod this year will be the consideration of the question of union with the Northern Chinch. A young mau named Thos. Low was drowned at Nasehy \\ hile bathing in a dam. He was seized with cramp, and the efforts of his brother and a companion to sa\e him were unavailing.