TELEGRAPHIC.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 2687, 1 June 1891, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

Auckland, Saturday. F. L. Beart, County Rate Collector at Dargaville, was arrested last evening on a charge of embezzlement. The accused was this morning brought up at Dargaville Police Court and remanded, bail being refused. Auckland, Monday.

Colonel Sheppherd, who, owing to the retrenchment policy, has k retired j from command of the Auckland Volunteer force, was on Saturday presented with an illuminated address by the officers of the various companies. A number of friends of Mr W. S. Allen are desirous of petitioning the House as soon after it meets as possible to remove the disqualification imposed on him by the Judges on the late election petition case, ou the grounds that he himself was not in the Colony at the time the election took place, and that the a?t for which he was unseated and disqualified, was one which in itself did not involve any moral turpitude, being more of the nature of an accident than of deliberate illegal practice. The criminal sessions commence today at the Supreme Court.

Kamo, Saturday.

The Prospectors collected 420 ounces of hot-squeezed amalgam on Thursday evening. The plant is only working a shift and a }»alf, there being no water. The stuff is supposed to average 50 ounces. The big reef is 7 feet wide as stoped out, and shows splendid silver. The general prospects of the field were never better. More machinery is badly wanted; the road to the field is very fair.

Napiee, Saturday. The schooner Opotiki which |tranded during the heary gale about a fortnight ago on the Petane beach, was successfully floated last night without any damago except ft slight injury to her rudder.

Wellington, Saturday. The Genius return! of the Mae*i population, subject to revision, are North Island, 39,452 ; South lalajbd, 1,860; total, 41,312. The Gensus return of 1886 was 41,432, bo that the quinquennial Oettsue juet taken shows a decrease of 120.

• ■ >■• Oamabf, Saturday.. r A girl named Margaret Han nig an, while swinging on a school swing at Totara School, fell off on her heai, and died almost immediately. It is supposed that her neck was broken.