TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5281, 15 January 1879, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

[By Cable. J [■rETJTER'S TELEGRAMS.] MELBOURNE, January 13. In the cricket match Canterbury versus East Melbourne, the latter made 188 ; Horan and Boyle were m the team. Canterbury in their first innings have 6 wickets down for 182. Mr Lalor will probably visit Sydney to confer about the border duties. [special to the press association.] MELBOURNE, January 14. Mr Woods, Commissioner of Railways, has received a medal and diploma of honor from Naples for his improved railway break. RicJnardson, late Collector of Customs at Belfast, pleaded guilty to embezzlement to the extent of £2000. The Kellys are reported to have been seen on Friday last on the Lachlan. They had four or five horses and a pack- ' horse. When noticed they broke camp I and rode rapidly away, abandoning the pack-horse, which was knocked up. Two troopers and three black trackers procured revolvers and rifles from a neighboring station, and went in pursuit on Saturday, folio wings the tracks. They have not been heard, of sinco. SYDNEY, January U. Inquiries are being instituted regarding a recent fire in Grosman and Har- ! ding's Swiss goods warehouse, late of I Christchurch. They state they brought | £2500 worth of goods hither, and allege 1 that their books are burnt. [ The Kellys wore well armed when seen, and the pack-horse left was heavily laden. The Bulli Company havo given the men notice to vacate their houses on the company's estate. A number of the mon have resumed work. | [press association.] GISBORNE, January M. Skysail ran in two events at the Tologa Bay races, and won, but protests wore entered on the ground that although the entry of the horse was posted on the day advertised, the entry was not in the hands of the secretary until afterwards, and that therefore it was no entry. The I protest was sustained by the stewards. The owner of the horse appealed, but the Resident Magistrate put him out of { Court, deciding that be had no power to

review the act of the Stewards unless they had given no decision, or one in favor of the plaintiff. [By Special Wire.! AUCKLAND, January 14. # There is no appearance yet of the mail steamer. It has been blowing a stiff gale for the last two days, which may retard the vessel's progress. The night at present is dark and blowing. A farmer in the Bombay settlement, about 30 miles south of Auckland, has been seriously wounded by gun-shot. Ho and a servant were out shooting. The two wore separated, and, on the discharge df the man's piece, the shot lodged in the farmer's leg. Ho Was taken to the hospital, and several of the shot were extracted, but several still remain. He is at present much fevered. The man Tcrrel, who was injured on board the Union Company's steamer Taiaroa recently, at Onohunga, has died, never having rallied. An inqxiest was held to-day, when the doctor said the bones of the neck had been injured, and the deceased never recovered from a state of paralysis. A verdict of accidental death was returned. Mr Sheehan has gone up the Thames River to-day. Ho had meetings Avith the natives in the Ohinemuri district, and has promised that the Upper Waihou River shall be snagged, and rendered fit for navigation. CHMSTCHURCH, January 13. The Hon. E. Stout arrived hero yesterday. He is engaged on the case in which the Harbor Board are the defendants. Mr Roes and Mr De Lautour are also hero. There was a crowded attendance tonight at the last performance of the Stewart Family. They have done exceedingly well during their stay. The rest of the week will be occupied with high class musical performances, in which Miss Amy Sherwin and Towle's opera figure largely. At the Supreme Court to-day the dispenser at the hospital applied to be exempted from jury servico on the same plea as the apothecary in Pickwick. The Judge released him, not as his right, but I on account of the incouvenienco that might arise through his absence. Mr A. Duncan, a member of the Waste Lands Board, was also exempted. ! January 14. During the month of December 5053 quarts of milk were used at the Christchurch Hospital. At a meeting of the Hospital Board yesterday, it was mentioned that the expenses of a woman who had been admitted to the Akaroa Hospital were £20, of which £15" was for brandy supplied to her. The new journalistic venture in the shape of the Herald appeared at Lyttelton on Saturday last for the first time, under the proprietorship of W. Riley, well known on the West Coast in connec- . tion with journalism. Mr John Anderson, of the Canterbury foundry, is making arrangements to introduce hydraulic machinery for riveting. This will supersede hard labor, and enable Mr Anderson to compete with .foundry masters in all parts of the world. A fire broke out at about one o'clock yesterday morning in the premises occupied as a fancy goods shop by a Chinaman named Ah Fir_g, on the east side of Colombo - street, between Cashel and Lichfield-streets. The first to notice the outbreak was Constable Little, who was on duty near the A 1 Hotel, and whose attention was attracted to a noise which proved to be caused by the explosion of a quantity of Chijiese crackers in Ah Fing's shop. "The constable hurried to the spot, and having set a man named Charles Anderson to ring the fire bell at the Lichfield-street station, set to work to rouse the inmates of the house adjoining. Ah Fing did not live on the premises. By this time the fire was spreading with rapidity, and Mr and Mrs Schorop, who lived next door to Ah Fing, and under tho same roof, were ; barely able to escape in their night dresses. The alarm having been given, the fire engines were soon at the spot and pouring water on the front and rear of ! the burning buildings. Thanks to the exertions of the brigade, the fire, which was situated in a closely built block, was confined to the premises in which it began, and was got under in the course of less than half an hour. As usual, however, a great deal of damage was sustained by the recklessness or want of judgment of those who volunteered as- j ! sistance in removing goods. The total loss cannot be exactly estimated, but from the following particulars some idea of it may be formed :— Ah Fing has lost the whole of his stock, &c, which was insured, but for what amount is not known. It is supposed to have been worth between £200 and £300. Mr Schoroup has lost everything, probably between £800 or £900 worth. Mr James Wilson, baker, and Mr Wm. Thomson, ; grocer, on the one side, and Mrs Atack, j grocer, on the other, have suffered considerable loss, and unfortunately for the ; first named he is uninsured. The insurances so far as ascertained are as follows : — Mr Schoroup, £500 on bis furniture (there was also £600 on the building).; Mr Thomson, £200 in the New Zealand and £200 in the National Insurance offices on the furniture and stock; Mrs- Atack, £100 oa her furniture and stock, and £100 on the building, in tho Liverpool London and Globe office. Two casualitiee are reported to have happened. One was to a drunken man, who fell through Mr Wilson's verandah ; besides sustaining a shock from the fall he was considerably cut about the face. The other was a similar accident to a young man, who fell through the verandah and cut one of his hands badly. The buildings were smouldering during the whole of yesterday, and at about 7 last night the Deluge engine was brought out and played upon the embers till they were thoroughly extinguished. During the last six months £30 worth of . glass in the street lamps has been smashed. So serious is the damage becoming that tho Council are thinking of appointing a kind of ranger to look after the lamps. Nine hundred and forty-one immigrants are due at Lyttelton within the next two or three weeks. There was a fine house at Miss Sherwin's concert to-night, despite the rainfall. Mr Towle will clear a large amount. Later. It rained heavily all last night. This morning it is still raining. It appears now that Ah Fing, tho Chinaman, whose fancy goods and fireworks store was burned down on Sunday morning, was not insured, and that this is a total loss. Two pairs of young blackbirds have been liberated near Amberley, and six magpie larks near Eagleton. DUNEDIN, January 14. The following are the acceptances for the Dunedin Cup and Publican's Handicap, to be run at the Dunedin Jockey Club Annual Meeting : — Dunedin Cup, of 500 soys. , two miles and a distance: — Templeton, 9st 9lb; Fishhook, 9st 61b; Jangler, Bst 41b; Danebury, Bst 31b ; Maritana (including 91b penalty), Bst lib; Lara, Bsfc lib ; Longlands, Bst ; Maroro, 7st 131 b; Titana, 7st 111 b; Fallacy, 7st 101 b; Mata, 7stslb; Luna, 6st 121 b; Sinking Fund, 6st 101 b; Blue Peter, 6st 101 b; Bonjiroo, 6st 101 b; Mufti, Gst 101 b ; Dead Heat, Gst 91b ; Camballo, 6st 91b ; Orange Lightning, (3st 81b; York, 6st 71b ; Vampire, Gst 71b ; Oboron, Gst 71b ; King Quail, Gst -lib ; Natator, 7st 41b ; Chancellor, 7st 21b ; King Philip, 7st 61b ; Venus Transit, 7st ; Nemo, 7st ; Cloth of Gold, Gst 131 b; Dundee, Gst 31b; Lady Elizabeth, 5s 91b; Sapphira, ost 81bBolardo (Kate Swindle colt), sst 71b. Publicans' Handicap, of 100 soys., one and a quarter mile : — Fishhook, 9st 91b ; Laertes, Bst 41b ; Maritana, Bst 4lb ; Foul Play, Bst ; Sinking Fund, 7st 81b ; Blue

Peter, Ist 71b ; Venus Transit, 7st 71b ; Lima, 7st 71b; Oberon, 7st 71b; Dead Heat, 7st 61b ; Cainballo, 7st 41b ; Vampire, 7st 21b ; Lady Ellen, 7st ; Sapphira, 6st 31b. A house in George-street occupied by Mrs Scott was destroyed by fire about 8 o'clock on Sunday night. It is supposed to have been caused by the upsetting of a kerosene lamp. The building was destroyed, b\it a portion of the furniture was saved. The insurances are by Mrs Ridley in the National £200 on the I building, £100 on the furniture, and £50 on the piano, which was saved. Mrs Scott £100 on the furniture in the Union. The ceremony of laying the foundation stone ef the new Roman Catholic Cathedral will take place on the 26th instant. The portion to bo completed first will comfortably seat 9dO person's. From the drawings, the building will be a remarkably handsome one. Mr Do Lautour, M.H.R. for Mount Ida, will address his constituents about the end of the month. Most favorable reports are received of the condition of the crops in the Taieri district, and the fruit season is the best for years. The society for promoting savings banks in schools here have a letter from the Government saying that it is intended to have everything perfected so as to admit of the inauguration of the system taking place on the re-assembling of the schools. The Education Boards are to be immediately communicated with, and a circular of general application is being prepared for the schoolmasters, which will be issued from Mr Hislop's office, Wellington. Two crews from Christchurch and Timaru will compete at the regatta at Henley on the Taieri. Regret is expressed that Invercargill is not represented. A number of the New Zealand Wagon Company' 8 wagons are already running on the Middle Island Railways, and more will be available for the North this week. Before the close of the year the company hope to have 250 wagons at work. All the wood work is made in the colony, but the iron is imported from Great Britain on favorable terms, owing to the low price of iron there. There are applications for three times as many wagons as the company proposed building the first year. The grain traffic on the main trunk line will be materially assisted this season. The breach of promise case, Cayford v. Carruthers, will be heard in the Supreme Court, Dunedin, before a common jury, i on the 29th instant. The immigrants per Oamaru all met with ready engagements for the harvest, with board and £19 to £29 for three months ; farm laborers, £1 to £l 4s per week; shepherds and ploughmen, £60 per annum. The single girls, though not open for engagement until to-mor-row, have all found work, and the supply is not nearly equal to the demand. The tender of John Whitaker for the Waimea Plains railway has been accepted. The amount is £6625 14s Bd. This is for the permanent way, and does not include rails and sleepers, which are provided by the company, but laid by the contractor. The length of the line is 34 miles, and the work is to occupy twelve months. The estimated value of rateable property in Dunedin for the year 1879 is £275,000. As showing the increase in the value of property, the following figures may be interesting : — In 1874 the value was £158,531 ; in 1875, £187,089 ; in 1876, £220,964; in 1877, £227,034; and in 1878, £249,695. Mr John H. Shaw, a member of the commission recently appointed to take in hand the revision of the New Zealand statutes, arrived in town by the Ringarooma to-day, and will proceed to Wellington to-morrow. A man named Henry Richardson has been missing from the Cromwell district since Monday. He was a shearer, and is supposed to have been drowned in the Clutha going from Ardgour to Kawaru station. At the inquest on the body of John. Waldregon, held at Ophir, a verdict was returned that the deceased shot himself in the bowels when laboring under temporary insanity. Mrs Waldregon was unable to attend. The Wakatipu Mail has been informed that the local commissioner appointed to enquire into the charge made by Mr H. J. Finn against Mr Warden Stratford have forwarded their report to the Governor, and that the main charge of illegal arrest was, according to current reports, considered an arbitrary and uncalled for exorcise of his power. On the arrival of the Union Company's steamer Ringarooina at Hobartown, on the 2nd inst., Captain Newman, and Mr Webster, the chief officer, were each presented with a testimonial and a purse of sovereigns by the passengers, in acknowledgment of the skill with which the ship { was managed during the rough passage from the Bluff to that port. j The Mayor's salary was fixed at £500 by the City Council to-day. The consideration of a proposal to reinstate Mr Geneva, the gas engineer, was postponed. Councillor Fish stated that the report on the gasworks by Mr Cleminsband, of Christchurch, completely cleared MiGeneva's character. GREYMOUTH, January 14. The Jockey Club have issued two days' programme for the 17th and 18th of March, comprising Trial Stakes, 20 soys t Open Handicap Hurdle, 25 soys, acceptances added; Railway Stakes, 130 soys; Goldfield's Handicap, 75 soys ; Grey Valley Handicap, 30 soys; Handicap Hurdles, 25 soys ; Novel Race, 20 soys ; Consolation, 15 soys ; and a Hack Race. It is raining heavily, and there is a strong swell and a heavy sea on the bar. NELSON, January 14. The Waimea County Council, after a long discussion to-day, resolved to bring the whole of the Counties Act into operation. There were only two dissentients. There was a heavy gale last night, but no damage is reported. ' TIMARU, January 14. j A servant girl named Mary Connor, aged about eighteen, hung herself at Waitohi Flat yesterday. She was supposed to be insane for some weeks. A prisoner in Lyttelton gaol named Morgan Harper showed signs of insanity, and was removed to the Asylum, from whence he escaped, and the police have since been searching for him. Yesterday a man was arrested here for being drunk and disorderly, and was leaving the Court after being fined ss, when detective Neal recognised him as Morgan Harper. The prisoner says he feigned lunacy in gaol, and thus imposed on both the gaol authorities and the medical men. He will bo sent back to the Asylum, and from there to Lyttelton. Heavy rain has been falling the last forty-eight hours, and has done a great deal of good. WELLINGTON, January 14. The special jury case of O'Neill v. Brown, heard yesterday, resulted in a verdict for the plaintiff for £225. It was an action brought for commission, as engineer to the tramway, against the contractor. Some very singular disclasures in regard to commission and contracts were made during the case. A fearful gale has been blowing since last night. The ketch Forest Queen, owned by Mr M'lntyre, and engaged in taking cargo from the Hyderabad, was driven ashore this morning about a mile from that vessel, and is a total lass. She is insured in the New Zealand Company for £750, about two-thirds of her value. The following is the betting on the Wellington Cup : — 5 to 1 against Longlands (taken), 5 to 1 Mufti (taken), 100 to 15 Titania (offered), 100 to 15 Fishhook (offered), 100 to 12 Lara (offered), 100 to 12 Laertes (offered), 100 to lOßata (offered), 100 to 10 Diver (offered), 100 to 8 Morning Star, 100 to 8 Pohokura

(taken), 100 to 6 Venus Transit, 100 to ; 6f Lady Gray; 100 to 6 King Quail, 100 to | 30 Sailor (wanted). A fire occurred last night in an outhouse of Mrs Dew's residence, Words-worth-street. The outhouse was de- • stroyed, but there was no further damage I djone. • ..;--. '-■ The Supreme Court was occupied toi day with a special jury case, in which William Henry Gollop, publican, at Port Ahuriri, was plaintiff, and F. Atcheson, Superintendent of Police at Wellington,, was defendant. Mi- Travers, with Mr Edwards, appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr Buckley, with Mr Stafford, appeared for the defendant. The plaintiff claimed £200 as damages for a slanderous publication in the terms of the following" telegram:—" Wellington,- April 16, .1818* Inspector Scully: J£e (jfollop's application for a license. A robbery was committed at the Pier Hotel here about twoyears ago by three men. One of the men was convicted at the Supreme Court. Gollop, I believe, was implicated in the robbery, and I told Him so. I have no reason to change my opinion. Subsequently he kept an hotel in Nelson.^ 1 refer you to the police there respecting transactions which occurred between himself and a bank officer. Gollop is not suited to hold a house. I have told him that I would oppose the application. — F. Atoheson." The sending of the telegram was, after some evidence and long argument admitted; but the Chief Justice granted a nonsuit on the ground that express malice not having been proved the communication must be considered a privileged one. : James Murphy, recently sentenced to 25 lashes for indecent assault on & child, received his flogging in gaol this morning. " . A private letter received here contains! the following in reference to the passage, home of the Waikato from Lyttelton :~- "M. came home in the Waikato clipper from Lyttelton. They stuck for three], days in ice near the Horn. , After' I getting away from there, they ran short of matches, oil, candles, and tobacco, having nothing to smoke, and having to go to bed in the dark. They were be- [ calmed in the tropics for some weeks,but luckily they were able to board a ship in the same predicament. After having' had head winds nearly all the remainder of the passage, they arrived in England, being out 117 days." ' '. The New Zealand Company has reinsured £500 of its risk on the Forest Queen, £250 in the Colonial and £250 .in the Standard offices. The ketch was in _tow«, by the s.s. Glenelg, but the gale increased • to such a degree of violence, blowing , dead on shore, that the Glenelg at length -.- was obliged to cast off the Forest -Queen, which drove ashore, while the ' Glenelg herself had very great difficulty in ing clear, being atone time in a position of „"■ imminent danger. After a long and hard struggle, she managed to force berwa'y : out in the teeth of the storm, and to reach a safe auchorage. The Post gives the following description of the blowing down, this morning, of the Forester's Hall which is being built in Tory-street. The framework was completed, and two sides were already ■••;. covered with galvanized iron, but just . before 5 o'clock this morning the whole structure came down with a tremendous : crash, the heavy timbers snapping and splintering as if they had been clothesprops. Mr Edwards, the builder, who was present, had a very narrow escapee with his life. Hardly a beam has escaped : ; damage, so complete is the destruction. The loss of Mr Edwards is estimated at about £500. " . "' . The new United Methodist Pree Church, « which is in course of erection in ; Courtenay - place, narrowly escaped serious damage. The west wall frame- .■ • work was up but a few days, and the : - boarding still remained to be put'oh, ; when a heavy gale suddenly overthrew : the whole, the men who were at work . below fortunately escaping injury. The braces, which were already fixed, however, prevented serious damage,. the\frame falling bodily and comparatively Iff gently. The sum of £20 will fully cover *,'" the loss of the contractor, Mr Sadow, as very few beams were broken. The north wall fell against the school-house at the rear, but did no damage. The Post publishes to-night the following letter from Father Chiniquy : — " Sir, — An unknown friend from New Zealand sends me your number of the 30th ; November last, in which I see how Father „ Henneberry knows me so well that- he ' ; thinks it is his Christian duty to denounce . '. me as a swindler and a liar. As I intend to pass a few days among my Christian friends of New Zealand, will you be kind : enough to allow me, through your jour- .'.*:.. nal, to inform the good father that it is '■:' my intentionto give him an opportunity X, to prove before the world when and . >: how I have raised money under -c false pretences, or said any lie^to*? deceive the public. Some years ago ; ■?• ji I thought it my Christian duty;^ to give the same opportunity of 5^ proving his charges against my character^ to another priest named Branet. The fe consequenoe was that the (good) and y^ (holy) priest of Rome, having failed to V: prove his slanders, was condemned = , to st; several years in gaol in the city of Kan- .^ kakee, State of Illinois, but after sis: :-J months of gaol ho broke away to Canada, j; where he published that the Holy Virgin -£i Mary had miraculously opened him the; |j door of his prison. But it was the last y;^' miracle which the Virgin had to make in 'j-ji his favor, for a few months after he had the good common sense to die, a iow' : fi days before he was to be brought again"to his cage. — I am, &c., C. Chiniqtty; !; Sydney, 31st December, 1878." : ■', '. : WESTPORT, February 14. .; A heavy gale raged early this morning.; ; The brigantine Lizzie Grey, from Lyttelton to Hokitika; in ballast, and with ten : . tons of produce, stranded one mile south^ of the Buller River. Two of the crew.J were disabled. She is owned by Messrs ~ Craig and Howarth, Hokitika, and is insured, but the amount is not known,