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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5543, 21 November 1879, Page 2

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[BY SPECIAL WIEE.] Auckland, Friday. At the annual meeting of the Auckland branch of the New Zealand Eifle Association it was resolved that a special effort be mado to raise funds to Bend representatives to Nelson at the coming prize meeting. At a meeting of the Auckland United Laborers' Mutual Aid Society the following resolution "was passed : — " That the secretary correspond with kindred societies throughout New Zealand with the view of devising some means whereby to stop for the present free immigration to this colony." The Carandini Company will arrive in Auckland by the Eotomahana. The company includes Madame Oarandini, Miss Marie, Miss Vernon Reid, and Gordon Goooh. I At the Wesleyan district meeting today report^ were read from the missionaries in the native districts. Miss Sjchakenberg reported that danoing was becoming a mania among the Raglan and Kawhia natives', and Mr Gibbons reported that the Kaipara natives were largely influenced by superstition, owing to the outbreak of disease amongst them. The Auckland Artists' Exhibition was oponed to-day. There were a, large number of visitors, /'••■■. o'"- : " •■'. ' '•-;;; i./pp

News by the Meg Merrilees from Fiji to the sth inst. reports the brig John Wesley at Levuka having on board tlie .Rev.Geo. Brown and a 4oajtfisi of W^a ;, for the New Britain niissidlii Thedhipsof Rptumah have Visited tfiji andjtendered; the annexation of the island, to: the Gp^ yerQment> Sir Arthur \Gfordbn faccept^a: the offers-pending the Queen's reply, and sent Lieut. Gordon to Rotumahito.dct as adviser to the natives in the meaiitinie. ■■•--■ • GrahaMstoWbp, Thursd£t*i The charge df lardeny brought against ex-Sergt. Lambert was continued to-day before the Rosident Magistrate* and was dismissed. ,;,. • ;. The AlbUrnia iriine shows no falling off ire production.. Eighteen,.o\H, of picked stone is A6^ being crustted it tlie Herald batterAh S&aifei Me firm at 80s, and a Ism#9 M«ll6ss/was done to-day at that figure. : CHRisTCntmcii, Thursday. ;At an adjourned inquest at ,Lytteltpn yesterday on the body of a child .named Albert Foogarty, the jury returned a verdict to the. effect ; that death .resulted from general emaoiation, accelerateji by the neglect of his mother, Mary : Ann Foogarty. The coroner admonished Mrs Fboogarty asi to the narrow escape she h4d. of being charged with manslaughter. jValpdy was" committed to-day for trial, charged with einbeatfling the f linds of the Rkilw^y Benefit Sotiietyj " , JDr. Eemon is going td superintend the laying, of the telephone cd-ble, across Lyttel tori Harbor' in person. "; ' il ]THe liytteltdn HarUdr liii b,ee'fa advised By its sbliditprs. that iii Is entitled tp exercise 1 jurisdiction over J all waters which lie within, a radius of five, nautical miles drawn from Balum. Point, such radius to be described only in a seaward direction; .also over the foreshore, lyiug between these points, and over a 1 ! havens, ports, arms of the sea, creeks, and tidal rivers whose mouths or entrance to the sep, lie between these points, and over their shores up to the limit of ordinary high-water mark. ■At a meeting of publicans h?ld at Lyttelton on Tuesday evening it was agreed to raise the scale of prices for spirits sold by the bottle. . , [The XDpera Bouffe Company open at the Gaiety on Saturday in the " Doctor of Alcantara." ..■,';,. At an inquest held at Lyttelton gaol yesterday on the body of a prisoner named Timothy Houlihan, a verdict that death had resulted from natural causes was returned. During the three weeks ending November. 15, forty-five patients were admitted to the Christchurch Hospital, twenty-six were discharged, and five deaths occurred; On the loth instant, there were seventy-four patients in the institution. . . ; Wellington, Thursday. . A couple of land slips occurred near Pakuratahi, on the Wellington and Featherston railway, last night, which blocked the line all to-day. A gang of men are now working at the slip, which it is expected will be pleared to-morrpw., r !At the inquest to-day on the bodie"s of Edward Miller, Fanny Miller, and Clarence Miller the medical men gave evidence to the effect that they believed the deed was committed by the son in an attack of; acute mania, brought on possibly by reading the account of the suicide ; . of' the young man Taylor on Monday. The jury returned a verdict that the parents were killed by the son, who was in an unsound state of mind, and that he im- ' mediately afterwards committed suicide. In the action of Lingard v. Giilon, whioh was brought to recover £10 royalty fees paid in 1877, and which it was alleged bad been wrongfully paid. The Magistrate held that the fees had been paid under compulsion, and .that the society had no power to recover. Judg-' rrient was given for the plaintiff with costs. Leave to appeal was asked for.