Telegraphic.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7913, 30 November 1887, Page 2

Telegraphic.

• - [PEK UHITBD PBESS ASSOCIATION.] Auckland, Tuesday. A rich deposit of Manganese has be«n discovered at Parua Bay, Whangarei, and will be worked by a local conipany. A trial shipment of two hundred jtons will be sent away as soon as a wharf J3 erected. The inquest on tho body ofDewsea terminated to-day, when the Coroners jury returned a vordict of manslaughter asminst some person unknown, there not being sufficient evidence to show by whom it was committed. The jury exonerated the police from blame in the matter.s Captain Davis M Aster, of the barque Kirkdale, was charged at the Police Court to-day with assaulting David Butcher, steward of the vessel, on the high seas, on October Ist, somewhat serionsly. Allegations of habitual drun-

ennes3 were nj'ade against the captain; ut the Bench did not consider them ilevant, and.it was stated for the de- . ;nca that the steward was a violent man, ad that the/assault complained of was of mild character. The Bench directed 1 liat the steward receive his discharge and. ialf of the wages- due to him Wanganui, Tuesday. Mr Ballance has given instructions to. ■ , lis solicitor to take action against Mr Gilbert Carson, proprietor of tho Wan-' ■ mnui Chronicle, for references made to . - ' Mrs Ballance. Wellington, Tuesday. In the Appeal Court the following udginents have been aiyen :— Joseph v. staples, Wellington, appeal dismissed. .. with costs ; Official Assignee v. Moa Flat. Dairy Company (New Plymouth), appeal Ulowed with costs ; Attorney-General v. ripae (Wanganui), judgment for respondent with costs j Bennett v. Douglas [Hawke's Bay), appeal dismissed with costs. The case of <he Hutt County __ Council, an appeal against the decision " of the Chief Justice declaring the Kav warra toll-gate illegal, bfling within a. ', mile of the city, was next argued. The- ■ Court reversed the decisiorf or the Chief? Justice, who had held that 'lolls could not be collected as the gate was not tfc mile away from th» city tioundary. It is understood thai Major-General Sirr ' George Wbitmore has «fetMinined< upom , taking up his residence pttnasnenfly iiu England, and_ that h* frill leave th»: , ' colony some time next year. Sir George, has just completed the MS of a, work ' which he intends publishing, and whichi , will be of great interest to this colony,. It is a complete history of the natir« dia- > turbances on the Esst and West Coasts,. > which h*,- as commander of the colonial! : forces, stittsee'4«d in. suppressing. * . .-.' ■ Argument Jni the' Appeal -Court in th»r ' • case of the SbStfr^"*"'! Albion Com- |, pany v. the TimarsH^»fc» Board has. / concluded, their Honors r£??n??jP Jjwgiment. ■ ' ■ ' • -. . . The fallowing amounts were paid over" ! . at the settling for the Island Bay races. „ this evening : ;-F. Hill, -£130 ; J; X* .). Belcher, £90; H. Hill, £50; K. Backe- .;/' ridge, £45; J"; Saundera, £20; P. F.- V 7 Taucred, £10 ;. Jones, £10. ; ; „' Theve is ev<tey appearance of % fine'- j . weather for the Racing Club's . j( . meeting, which cftmimences to-morrow. 1 ". Hokj-mka, Tuesday. j Mr M'Lean Wdtt Jack lias been unani- 1 mously elected coonfcy chairman. . • i : A woman naiqed Russell, who was i - walking from Okaiito to Koss, a distance ' 1 ' of about 60 miles, seems to hare teen j lost on the road. The mailman who left > after her has arrived here, and says- he , ■ saw no trace of Mi-3 Russell. It ia feared ) ' that she been lost) in the -bush or else ; carried down one; of the -rivers and,) drowned. There ?i rerv little hope pfi , finding her alive. Search parties are nowvii out. I .-;-!* iNYBJBCABdifeb, Tuesday. i An old resident yarned Joh* Vint, en- j ; gaged as a hawker, ! committed snioide by/' .' taking "rough-on, rats." ,' ! Lewis Frederick: Drew and .Dennfr* ■ Foot, master and mate respectively of the > - , schooner Awarua, ; belonging to Mr J., : Hatch, ex-M.H.Rj, were charged at thai Police Court to-dsiy with having on the. 1 ! 15th August, at tbe Auckland Islands*'. : killed ten seals diariog the close season,] "and further with hriyingiu their possession 1 ' at the Auckland I elands the skins of 17ft J ■ seals. The ofFencef alleged was committed, on the occasion Ojf the rescue of tUesarvi vors of. the Derry by the schooner,; whicli was. forme rly engaged for some' " months by the Government y in protecting;: 'j the sealeries at tk(} Aueklands.. The case: ) was conducted by Jthe Crown Prosecutor, I ', , who applied forv an adjournment til|; , Thursday in thij absence at. Stewart ■ Island of , a malArial witness. Counsel ' : for the defence objected, but the applies.-! : tion was granted., • . ' ■•••';, The first leng th of pipe for the Inver-^' cargill water-wqrks wrs laid this after-.'- ' noon by Councillor Luunsden, the chair-/ * man of the waler-works committee, and! the oldest livin; > Mayor of the town. He i ' . was assisted by. Mr Tippar, the present.. Mayor. The ceremony, was performed in the presence of? the Corporation officials,'! ' Mr M«'rrison (en Anderson and -Morrison/, ■ , contractors for tho work), Captain Croker *■•■ ' -• (of the ship 'jonkar, which brought the;' ■ . pipes to the plony), and ' a number of ' citizens. ' The' Water will be pumped from" ■. - a deep well on 'the outskirts of the town.;! ;■ The Bluff Harbor. Board have prabtl-',. cally adopted the 'Chamber of CommerceV! ' .' recommendation ttat they should 'increas*' 1 ; the port charges cm goods in and ont io>'' .' preference to raising the shipping dues.