FEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XIII, Issue 4487, 31 March 1876, Page 2

FEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

[FKOM OUR OWN" CORRESPONDENTS.] THAMES, Thursday. Moore's tribute, in the Alburnia, crushed 25 tons for 26ozs. 15dwts. gold. The Alburaia Company lodged in the bank 49ozs. lOdwts. melted gold, the results of cleaning up. Owing to the water iluming being carried away crushing has been suspended for some time at the company's battery, and the yield represents but a short run. In the drive towards Dixon's No. 1 the contractors have been following the reef, which has lately considerably improved,being over two ffiefc wide, and gold to be seen occasionally. James' tribute, in the Tookey, realised 32ozs. lOdwts.gold from 26 tons. From the Bessie (KarakaJ, the shareholders obtained loz. Sdwts. gold from six tons. From' the Tweedside, Sprague's tribute crushed'S tons for 4ozs. 15dwts. gold. From the Sir Rufaue (Hape Creek), Cdwts. 12grs. gold, from locwt. stone, were obtained. The reported new find in the Tararu is deficient of gold as yet. The promoters, however, intend to test a truckful of stone at the mill. The Advance continues to drive and rise upon their reef with good prospects. The Little Agnes are crushing with 15 head of stampers, at the Missouri mill. The face of the drive shows more defined atone than previously. The sfeopes are supplying the chief crushing dirt, which shapes well at the battery. , The Van, opposite to the Advance, are in 60 feet drive, and expect to cut the Advance reef directly. Two or three other claims are at work in the vicinity, but as yet have not obtained the colour. In the Crown Princess, baling out has continued, and the water is nearly 6 inches below the chamber floor. In the Bright Smile and Queen of Beauty, official measurements this day shew the water at 263 feet below the sill of the shaft. On March 18 the water stood at 263 feet 6 inches, since which time the Crown Princess have baled out, and the water by accurate measurement has been reduced 6 inches, shewing the connection between the shafts. Mr. McDonald Scott has been confirmed by the Court as official liquidator for the Nonpareil and Golden Calf Gold Mining Companies. At the District Court to-day, in the case of the Young G.M. Co. v. W. J. Young, judgment was against the company. P. Donnelly v. Ajax G.M. Co. : This suit was to recover certain shares sold on forfeiture. Judgment was in favour of the company. COKOMANDEL, Thursday. At the Union Beach some good specimens were obtained to-day, and the crushing is looking better than has been known previously. "Snyder" delivered a discourse last evening in aid of the funds of the Hospital. The court-house was crowded, and the discourse was well received. ALEXANDRA, Thursday. One thousand eight hundred natives attended the tangi over Tawhiao's daughter, who died on the ICfch inst., at Kawhia. The food consisted of 120 pigs, 20 sheep, 7 bullocks, 100 turkeys, birds, and eels, kumaras and potatoes. Tawhiao and 150\follower3 visited Te Makaka, Aotea, to promulgate the Tareao karakia. TAUKANGA, Thursday.

At an inquest on. the body of Mr. it. F. Holler yesterday, a verdict of "Accidental death by drowning" was returned. The jury appended a stringent rider about timbering up the approaches to the end of the wharf, calling the special attention of the authorities to enforce the harbour regulations. The general feeling is that Mr. Koller got tripped up by some coils of ■wire winch were lying close to the steamer's gangway, and was pitched over the wharf. The funeral took place this afternoon, and was attended by a large concourse of the settlers. Business was entirely suspended, and the stores were all closed.

[press agency.] Great uneasiness prevails re non-arrival of the steam-lauch Elsie, which the Auckland correspondent of the Bay of Plenty Times reports having left Auckland last Tuesday week. NAPIER, Thursday. . The Governor arrived here at four o'clock. He was welcomed by the Mayor, the Corporation, the Foresters, the Hibernian Society, and a large number of the general public. The Corporation * and Foresters presented addresses, to which the Governor replied. He was heartily received. His Excellency will hold a levee to-morrow, and attend a ball in the evening. He stays at the Criterion Hotel. His visit is expected to be only for a few days.

WELLINGTON", Thursday. It is understood that Parliament will mest before the end of Hay. A deputation from Greymoutli waited upon the Government to-day, re harbour works, arid' received an answer that the Government recognised the continuation of the Brunner railway and the harbour works connected therewith as colonial works, and that at the next session they would ask Parliament for the necessary funds to carry out the oriiginabplans. CHRISTCHUBCH, Thursday. Yesterday the wife of a man named John Lewthwaite, gave birth to two sons and one daughter. The mother died soon after, but the children are alive and doing well. The Acclimatisation Society have telegraphed to the Superintendent of Otago, asking him to spare a portion of the salmon ova expected per Arawata, transhipped from Durham. A good many men have left Lyttelton in various vessels to proceed to the Palmer gold diggings. The late favourable accounts have had a great effect on many. Twenty more left in the Invererne for Newcastle, intending to work their way to the diggings from that port. DUNEDIN, Thursday. In the case of Webb (trustee) v. the National Bank, Judge Williamson granted a rule for arrest of judgment, and an alternative rule for a new trial. At this trial Mr. Webb recovered £3000 damages. A fire at Caversham, last night, destroyed Mr. Blair's store and bakery, also a dwelling and out-house belonging to Mr. Cochrane, brewer. Water was so scarce that some beer had to be used to extinguish the flames. Insurance : Blair's stock, £200 in the Norwich Union, £400 in the Victoria; Cochrane's, £500 in the Victoria. The losers estimate their loss to be in excess of the insurance. Blair kept the Post-office, and all the letters are burnt. The Star's correspondents supply the following :— NAPIER, Thursday. The Governor arrived at Tarawera at four yesterday afternoon, and leaves this morning for Napier. The case of perjury against a policeman occupied the Court all day. The evidence on which the action was founded caused the licensing commissioners to cancel the license of the Commercial HoteL It is looked on here as a case of police persecution, and consequently the action for perjury Qxcitod

much interest. The evidence was of a most lively character. The case was eventually : dismissed. } "WELLINGTON', Thursday. ' A curious case of the tables being turned occurred in the R. M. Court yesterday morning. . A man named McCarthy was charged by a constable with drunkenness and disorderly conduct, and resisting tho police. He denied the charge, but the constable swore to a very complete case against the prisoner, with whom, it appeared likely to go hard, when an independent witness came forward and deposed to a very different stateof affairs. He stated that the prisoner only ~ resisted the brutality of the constable, who appeared under the influence of liquor, and seized McCarthy by the throat and shook . him, and then dragged him about by the hair of his head, and kicked him violently on the legs, and finally threw him heavily. He then got on him and beat his head on tho stones of the road. Other evidence to the same effect was available, but was not called 1 and the Bench at once dismissed McCarthy ; the constable, Henry Sands, taking his place in the dock. It then turned out that Sands was a recent addition to the forcc, and had been knocked off duty about three hours later in, the evening for intoxication. The bench sentenced the constable to a month's imprisonment with hard labour. But for the chance presence of witness, McCarthy probably would have received a similar sentence on the testimony of this constable.