LATEST SOUTHERN TELEGRAMS.

Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1625, 1 May 1875, Page 3

LATEST SOUTHERN TELEGRAMS.

DUNEDIN. (From our own Correspondent.) This day.

The Clutha Line

It appears that the Government will not open the Clutha line before contract time, in September. Ihe contractors ara therefore proceeding quickly, and to-day MessrBrogden and Sons discharged half ther hands between the Waikota and Clutha. The Fire at Harriot RowThe house destroyed by fire at Harriot "Row yesterday morning was valued at £500 ; furniture, £300. The policy on the building was only expired a couple of days ago The owner of the house and neighbours artconfident that if a conple of bucketsful of water had been available at the time the fire was discovered, it might have been easily extinguished. The Beautiful Rain. Bain is now falling, and the universal prayer is that it may continue for a few days. During the last forty-eight hours there has been great grumbling over the failure of the wrter supply on the high levels. People had to be content with a bucketful. Alleged Attempted MurderAt Otepopo two masons employed on the railway works, quarrelled about a rope. They then fell to calling one another hard names, resulting in Knight attempting to strike the other man, McConnachie, dowD with an axe. The latter avoided the blow with his arm. The edge of the axe inflicted a slight wound on the wrist. Knight was. committed for trial for attempted murder. Important Tichborne Evidence. Mr Macdonald, a resident in this province, and formerly a friend of Roger Tichborne, with whom the Solicitor-General of England has lately been in communication, says in hia statement, published in the Pruce Herald that he was not only present when th tatooing was performed on Roger Tichborne, but he can throw material light on the con* tents of the sealed packet. ' Singular HallucinationA peculiar case came up in the City Police Court yesterday morning. Samuel Tracey gave himself up to the police, and said he had forged and uttered a cheque. .The prosecution believed the cheque was right. Although the cheque had been g'ven a fewdays ago and forwarded to the bank, on which it was drawn only fifteen miles away, no notice of dishonor had been received. The police applied for a remand, which the Bench refused to grant. Horsewhipping an Editor. At Qaeenstown Mrs Howell, wife of an hotel-keeper, was sentenced to imprisonment for horsewhipping Mander3, M.P.C., for charging her with perjury arising out of Barry Sloan's case. The Bench acknowledged that the property was Barry's, but no perjury had been committed, and Mrs Howell left Court without a stain on her character.