TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5382, 15 May 1879, Page 2

TEL EGRAPHIC NEWS.

. [By Special Wire.l A writ was issued .yesterday in the Nelson District Court, against the City Council of Nelson, for damages sustained by the plaintiff, Mv S. Laniberfc, by the alleged negligence of the defendants, whereby water overflowed from the roadway on to the plaintiff's property, causing injury to his house, garden and orchard. On the Queen's Birthday the Nelson Volunteers will hojd a review at Richmtfnd, and there will bo athletic sports on the ground prior to the review. There is some hitch, however, as to whether the holiday is to observed on Saturday or Monday. The North Otago Coursing Club's Derby Stakes Meeting was finished yesterday morning; only three courses remained to be run. Juliet beat Rose in a short, sharp] course. Hinemoa and Morning Star, after running a "no course," had a long and beautiful course, both dogs working remarkably well, though Hinomoa had the best of tho contest. Morning Star killed and concluded a well fought course. Hinemoa had previously, however, been too busy , during the course, and defeated the favorites by points. Hinemoa and Juliet, the only two dogs left in the stakes, being the property of the same owner, divided. The time of Mr Mansford, the Wellington R.M., was occupied all day yesterday in hearing a charge of assault preferred against Henry Anderson, the editor of the Evening Chronicle, by one Easby, a blind-maker, and a counter charge brought by Anderson against Easby. The evidence showed that while Anderson was hitting Easby, the wife of the. latter was soundly belaboring Anderson. Anderson is well known, as an amateur pugilist, who has made several previous appearances at tho Eesident Magistrate's Court on charges of assaulting different people. The "Wellington- Woodville • railway is being pushed on. Yesterday 1660 tons of rails were sent up for tho exteution to Master ton. Messrs Blundell Bros., proprietors of the Evening Post, have presented a handsome silver challenge cup to the Wellington City Rifles. The Rev. Mr Mulligan, formerly of the KatiUati settlement, was inducted into tho ohargo of St. Peter's, Onehunga, last evening. A five-roomed cottage belonging to John M'Carthy, Papetoitoi, Auckland, was burned, to the ground yesterday morning, ike origin of the fire is uu- ,

known. The house was formerly insured for £100. in- the South British" office, but the policy was allowed to lapse. News has readied from the" Taiaroa sawmill that 2000 large logs have reached the booms there during the lastrain. ( : All the sawmills is the Auckland province are tlMs provided witll / abundance 1 bt timber for many months to conic.. . Jt' collision occurred on the WaikatS railway by the Ministerial party's special train running into a trolly near Taupiri;' '* The trolly, was going up the line as the special train. Was coming cLoWn, ' Ilittle' iuJ dry was ddiie } save smashing the trbllyV A new temperance 'Hall has been erected at Waiuku. It measures 56 feet -•■ by 24: feet. It was opened under vthe'tfT auspices of the Temperance SocietyJwith gome demonstration. The breach between Tawhiao. , and. Sswi .13 reported in Auckland WW widening. •-.(],,.» , A proposal niade, tfoilie udie agd td the 1 ' Ghriat&furch the patients in the. hospital by musical entertainments at intervals, has i.beeri., f >. declined by the boardl „ ■;•■■'■'" ■■fXrul.j A poor lifctlp paper, which', has tfeeri dragging a}on^ mieera% &{ Kaiapoi,fs. some inonms Has finally closed pubjic'a* tion. It was called the North. Canterbury ■Neivs. This paper was so spiritedly con- , ducted that it has been known tp shiii '{{$; Ui S day of publication in order jjp avoid,' !n having'to report a. biff event at, iKaiapoi'^-ij which it oottld clip! nett da*y ftdni. .thd ftjb • Christohuroh papers! .., V. :! .^.. t f In the Wellington E.M. Court- yesterii^i day, Mr Inglis; proprietor of the 066i-f?a dental Hotel, sued Mr bteswiclk '''tlie'W'l weU-knqwn. actor j . for .£45 for damage done to d 1 pla§tdt bi" pans model of Sfffir ji by defendant's dbg junipiiig' ftn-"and X breaking th.c ear off. j The,, case' was.'an.-''^ amusing one, and ' Mrs Cr^swicife'' (l^Sbl -^f* Helen Ashton) was a v^itneqs." /- r JTudk- ' ° r ment was given, for .de^en^uiy^'VJ f , fr Ait ; th& Wesloyan missionary, .meeiin^ * held lit Auckla-nlcin TdeddiyiSlgitf ffi,^ % Eev. Thos. Buddie: gave an. accoun^'ofx his recent visit to the -Maori \ meeting- at %' Te Kopua. He is of -opini6n ■. that! A' Tawhiao is practically a slave, beirig~sui>-</;/j roiinded by several hundred arnted'younff" Maori, scoundrels under the~dirV6tibirol : 'M Purukuru, the murderer of %^tM*j *>$">"* ''"*' prevent his. doming in contacV witi' ;> Europeans; tir, Md'ons Who^/MMca :^ l ' 1 they do ndt approve.,. ;Mr^uddlei9 i dS fu:J opinion that these ruffiaps. are/clmgmg Vto Tawhiao as a last resort, Mossnipg- fuU ■ -vU well that ifpeace were made. VeWen^p *"ii 1 Europeans and Tawhiad,thei ! harigniM.fH ■would soon do his ,wdr}r tlpdri.,tlieril. '"""'" The schooner Orpheus, from Lyttelton > to Auckland, had terrible weather off thew " East Cape, but sustainrd no damage. On " the north side of East Cape, the weather "~ was" perfetly calm. -.; The t gE[iriemoa;'re- ;::^ ported the same storm and : saw'- the schooner, but was unable tp recognise her. ■' '■ : ■■ , ■ ' "■■'"'; .-..:.- : %_. The Wellington City Council hav&re* : -v solved to raise "the whole df the £100 OOO*- 75 by one operation, in 6 per cent. <lelta Jw tures, repayable at four periods oi 35.' 40,45, and 50 years. ; The lpan'is'to.be, I'l1 ' 1 secured on a special rate of sevenpence in' J the pound, and £700 a year is to be set' aside to form a sinking fund; Any two ' ''" of the directors of the Bank", of Jssyr':]ll Zealand in London are. tp act as thY ;: " agents fof raising the loan.: The debeW • "fcures may be hypothecated. ' ' -- A young man named Thomaa \M artin» Vu a barman iA Monk's Post Office' Hotel' "! Wellington, has been arrested for sifceal--'-' 1 ing money from the till.- Sompmarkedcvf coins were found on him.- He admitted that of . £40 found on. Jhiin £38 j had been stolen from Mr Monk. In Chambers at Wellington,. yesterday, 1^ Mr Gordon Allan applied for ,a writ, of " ,^ habeas corpus in. the case of Frederick Gleich, the defaulting Adelaide . bankrupt.' Gleieh' was arrested under "the pro- ( ! >l > visions of the Foreign Offenders" Act, 1863, and Mi- Allan moved for his dis-. . . charge from the Wellington gaol on the. ' ground that tho Eesident Magistrate W • no power to remand Gleioh to AdeinMa K'i under the said Act. As it appeared tHfe Gleich is at present only on ordinary' ' remand for the production of evidence;' l the Judge held the application' to"'be premature. It should not be made un&l the prisoner was actually remanded to - ( Adelaide. " . "•.'. There are 71 applicants for licenses to T be heard at the next sitting of the Wei-!' 1 '-' lington Licensing Court. The police statistics show that in Canterbury there are 4 officers,"' l' 7' r> sergeants, 68 constables, a district clerk, and 3 detectives. During the year, ended April 30, there were 26 resignations, 2 discharges, and 7 dismissals. STARVATION IN NEW ZEALAND; .. A sad case of destitution was accident- .^ ally brought under the notice of a member. ; [' ; of ,the : Ckristchuroh police force a^fevr days ago. It was that of a woman and -M child, living in a miserable hevel not ; far from the Garrick Hotel, with no food, nor » the wherewithal to purchase it. -They were poorly, clad,, and' half starvie4wsW. want and cold. It appears thj,t ( 'tUs un- ' fortunate woman had' ' occupied a comfortable position .some tiiaev since. She fell ill latterly, and 'tnerebeing no one in the house but her infant; child,, slje. was unable to obtain assistance, and ish^; was . incapable of seeking it; -:Sergeaiit ;^* Raines,' who discovered the' w.bmfWiMw this condition j did what; He, ccjuld t° reHeve the immediate necessities' 5 of the?'' case, and afterwardspgot' the "woman 1 " moved to the Hospital V ;(.';' c ' r ••'♦' ' iul