TELEGRAPHIC.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7194, 20 June 1885, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

(from our own correspondent.)

Tatjpo, Friday. Professor Rice, thought reader, gave a very successful entertainment in the Town Hall.

Two thousand store sheep, Dick Hollis in charge, passed through ' here to-day from Hawke's Bay for the Cambridge and northern markets.

A petition, which ia being numerously signed, is now going the rounds asking Mr Mitchell to stand for th Tauranga electorate in the room of the late Mr Sheehan. It is thought Mr Mitchell will accede to the wishes of the eleotors of the Taupo district.

[PBB TTNITBD PHBSS A.KSOOXAMON. | Auckland, Friday. Some coarse snotty gold has been brought to Auckland, which ia said to have, been discovered in a creek near Otorohansa, on the Waipa river, near the route for the trunk railway. It was sent down by Mr Helps, a settler near Alexandra.

Hutchinson, of Oaversham, who was arrested here on a charge of alleged fraudulent bankruptcy, has intimated his intention to proceed for £10,000 damages for illegal arrest on his arrival in Duuedin. '

The New Zealand Sugar Company paid £1400 duty on sugar to-day. At the adjourned inquest to-day on the body of Margaret O'Brien, Mr Pond, analyst, deposed to finding five grains of arsenic acid in the vomit and stomach. A verdict was returned that deceased was poisoned by arsenic, but whether inadvertently or intentionally administered there was no evidence to show. The deceased is said to have an uncle in Oamaru and a brother in Dunedin. The detectives are still investigating the mystery, but there ia no trace of her purchasing arsenic at any of the chemists' shops.

WiNaANui, Friday. A fisherman who had been seeing flounders under nine inches in length was to-day fined £2.

Wellington, Friday. The Zealandia, with the May English mail, left San Francisco for Auckland on the 6th instant, her time-table date. The City of Sydney, with the May colonial mails, arrived at San Francisco from Auckland on the 15th instant, one day earlier than her time-table date.

Yesterday about £700 was paid at the Custom-house here as duty on underproof spirits, and to-day up to a short time before closing the amount of duty paid on that account was nearly £5000. Nearly all the tea in bond at this port has been cleared.

An old settler named Captain Edwin Stafford, well known in connection with fche shipping trade between this colony and Newcastle, waa found dead in bed this morning: at the Lower Hutt. Death occurred from natural causes.

The Union. Steamship Company and Captain Williams, owner of the Black Diamond line of steamers, are negotiating for a fusion of interests with the viewof ■terminating the present competition between them. The running of the two services has been adjusted, which will probably culminate in the Black Diamond line working under the auspices of the Union Company. . Capt.Williams retains.the superintendence of the Black Diamond steamers, the coal business here, and the Xoranui mine at Westport. Wellington is to be the head-quarters of the latter line, and the small steamers flying the Union Company's flag will probably centre here also.

At a meeting to-day of New Zealand University undergraduates resident in Wellington it was decided to form a graduates' association with the view to further the interests of University education. The following resolutions were agreed to :— " That in the opinion of this meeting it is desirable, in the case of "Wellington students, that the degrees of the University be conferred publicly." "That the time has arrived for the establishment of a University College in this city, and that the Wellington district ought to be placed upon an equality as respects University advantages with the Auckland, Ohristchurch, and Ofcago districts."

Nelson, Friday. John M'Leary was to-day sentenced to six months' hard labor for stealing £4i2 from Mr Alex. M'G-regor, a commercial traveller. The prosecutor was lying down in his room and' was awakened by'feeling the man's hand in his pocket. Nearly £1000 was received afc the Customs to-day, on proof spirits. Some time ago the Aniseed Valley Copper Mining Company sent' a parcel of stone to Hamburg, and the returns now to hand show that it yielded 30 per cent, of copper and silver, at the rate of six ounces to the ton.

Frederick Ransome Seaborn, formerly a Government insurance agent, was arrested to-day on the charge of embezzling some £20 belonging to the association. He has been sent to Hokitika, where the warrant was issued.

Chbisxchctech, Friday. At Kaiapoi this morning a child of Mr Harris, a carter, in the absence of the mother, who had left a bottle of iodine on the table, picked up the phial and swallowed the contents. Anteaotes were used, but the child lies in a very precarious condition. Mr John. Oliver received a telegram to-day from Sir Julius Yogel stating that the Governor consents to unveil the Moorhouse stave.

The flooded state of the rivers down south has prevented many returns of the native election from coming in, and the declaration of the poll is postponed till Wednesday nezt. A large number of Maoris have come to Kaiapoi, and great interest appears to be taken in the election. Tamahi Parahi is rumored to be the successful candidate. Mr H. P. Blanehard, surveyor, one of the Canterbury pilgrims, who came out in the Randolf, died yesterday. DcnidlK, Friday. A high school pupil named Wilson had his collarbone broken to-day while playing football. . Mary Hagan, of Taeri Beach, received, severe injuries by her clothes catching fire, and her recovery is doubtful.