NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XVI, Issue 5413, 24 March 1879, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

[FP.:M IJr:: OWN CORRESPONDENTS.3 NAPIER, Saturday.

The charges in the Police Court against J. G. Kinross," G. B. Worgan, and F. Sutton will probably commence on Tuesday. Some difficulty may arise, aa Worgan is in prison at Wanganui, committed for torgerv, and the Crown lawyers do not seem clear about the power to move him before trial. This i? not expected. to stop the immediate prosecution of the case 3 against Kinros* acd Sutton. The case against Donnelly and Price, for defrauding Renata in a fictitious horae sale of two horses, comes first on Monday. WELLINGTON, Saturday. It has cot yet been decided by the Cabinet who is to succeed Mr. Smith, the late Assistant Undersecretary in tho Colonial -Secretary's Department. Jlr. Hugh Pollen, the chief clerk of the department, has so far undertaken the duty, and if promotion is to follow in the order of seniority in this branch of the pu 1 lie service, in all probability Mr. Pollen will be gazetted, aod permanently attached to this particular office. There is no hope whatever of Mr. Smith being reinstated in his position. Tue Government, I learn, amongst the measures which they intend bringing under the consideration of Parliament, will include a Colonial Licensing Bill, repealing all Provincial Acts now in force, aud having general application to all Licensing Courts and districts. Stringent clauses will be inserted with reference to th? grauting of licences in native district?. All sorts of rumours reach here as to the manner in which it is alleged the Ministry have erred in the matter of some Northern appointments. At one time it is about a lawyer, at another about a medical man, a2ain about an insurance position, and so on. It mav be pretty generally asserted that the advisers of Hi 3 Excellency, if inquiries are instituted in the House of Representatives about these things, can fully justify their action in all the directions indicated, and will be completely exonerated from perpetrating anything like "jobs " in the selections which :Ley felt the public service required. [press association.] ■WELLINGTON, Saturday. The Cornnrssion on Higher Education re-assembUs here on Monday.

The Cjllector of Customs refu3e3 to dis charge two of the crew of the Hermione, who are eonfirm-.d invalids, and have been in hospital since the arrival of the vessel. The captain threatens to take legal proceedings. On Thursday night or Friday morning a woman, named Bridget Beard, living at Ohario, left her home only clad in her nightdress, walked barefooted nearly a mile, and threw herself into the old mill-dam, where she was found drowned yesterday. She was a married woman, and lived with her husband, an old lesideut of the Ohario district. Lately both Mrs. Beard and her husband took to hard (irinkine, and he on one or two occa sions has figured in the City Police Court dock on charges of drunkenness. When sober aud away from drink, the deceased was a remarkably hard-working and exceeding!}- cleanly woman, but she was addicted to intemperance, and when in that state, she wa3 absolutely lost. Her husband has also been drinking heavily, and i 3 now in a state bordering on lunacy from its effects. The Marine Dtpartmens has received the following telegram from the light-house-keeper at Cape Campbell. "At 8 p.m. on the 10th instant, the schooner Unity, bound from Lyttelton for Wellington, ran on the reti near the light-house, and is a total wreck. All hands saved." She was bound f'om Lyttelton to Wellington with a cargo of produce.

The following tenders have been received at the Public Works Office for the inland and coaxial route's Waitakerei and Waitetnata co:.tracls Kaipara-Puniu railway : — Waitakerei—Accepted : Taylor and Danaher, Auckland, £30,601. Declined : Cameron aud Briton, Auckland, £37,702 ; W. Rowe, Vt'angaiiui, £33,400; Larkin aud O'Brien, Auckland, £39,117 ; O. Wilkinson and Macdouald, Auckland, £47,070 ; D. Ross, Auckland, £5 ! .»,014. Waitemata—Declined : Taylor and Danaher, Auckland, £37,944; Catneron and Briton, Auckland, £37,407 ; y . Rowe, Wanganui, £40,423 ; Larkiu aud O'Brien, Auckland, £40,041 ; D. McKinnon and W. McLean, Auckland, £44,465.

CHRISTCHURCH, Saturday. Rumours have been flying about for the last two or three weeks regarding an impending failure. It is now known that a meeting of Mr. William Saunders's creditors has been held. He was lately burnt out, and to Jjaat it ia nupposed the failure will be due. ine announcement is expected to be publicly °Uae in a day or two. The outside amount

I of the liabilities is stated to be £100,000, mostly due to outsiders. TIMARU, Saturday. The nooiliu>' e( i immigration list from Timaru last mantQ .comprised 121 souls. DUNEDIN, Saturday. At Balclutha the Public Works Department is engaged in making surveys and taking soundings preparatory to proceeding with the permanent river protection works behind the township. Mr. Higginson, who is engaged by the various local bodies interested, is examining the river banks around Inchclutha, with a view of furnishing a full report on what works are necessary for the future safety of the island and the surrounding lowland. INVERCARGILL, Saturday. A young man of not over-respectable appearance, answering to the name of Patrick Kenny, was charged at the Police Court on Saturday morning with having feloniously assaulted with intent, Mima Atkinson, residing at Oreki. After some evidence had been taken, the case was adjourned till Wednesday. Up to the present time, 777 Volunteers have intimated tbeir intention of being present at the approaching review.