NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XVI, Issue 5482, 12 June 1879, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

(PER " HERALD " SPECIAL WIRE.) [from our own correspondents.]

THAMES, Wednesday.

David E. Rhind waß charged in the Police Court to-day with obtaining a sum of £30 from Mr. William Coleman, solicitor, Auckland, under false pretences. The prisoner pleaded not guilty, and, on the application of Sergeant-MajOTTSlason, was remanded to Auckland.

ALEXANDRA, "Wednesday. A clever capture was made here on Tuesday night by Constable Gillies. The wife of Mr. C. Innes, brewer, went out for a walk with her children, locking up the honse. On her retnrn she found the bed-room window open, and a gold watch and chain which had been left on the dressing-table were gone. A man named Burns, within an hour of the information being laid, was apprehended by Constable Giilies, while endeavouring to dispose of the stolen articles. The prisoner, who bears a bad character, was remanded till Wednesday next.

HAMILTON, Wednesday. A man named Kennedy, found lying drunk on the railway line, was yesterday fined 10s and costs. On the same day a fine two-year-old colt, the property of Mr. B. Young, of Hamilton, was killed on the line by the train. The colt raced in front of the engine till it stumbled into the cattle guard, and was then cut to pieces. boxes of ball cartridge for the use of the Waikato cavalry were received yesterday by the several troops. CAMBRIDGE, Wednesday. The sub-contractors for erecting the railway station and station-master's house at Hamilton Township, arrived by to-day's train, and work will be commenced tomorrow. The rails of the Hamilton extension line are now all laid from the main line to the township. The celebrated Okauia Block was finished to-day. Judgment will be given to-morrow. This block is over 40,000 acres, and is situated opposite to Matamata. It will be divided into three parts by the Court. The first block will be given to Mr. P. A. Whitaker, represented by Mr. W. Graham and others ; the second block to Mr. Williams (brother-in-law to Mr. J. C. Firth), represented by Mr. G. Walker; and the next to Mr. J. C. JFirth, represented by Mr. S. J. Edmonds and Mr. F. Wrigley. This last is only a small block, under 10,000 acres, nothing like Matamata, but on the opposite side of the river. The block is pronounced to be firstclabs land. Some say 5a per asre is the price; others, Gs. The next block to be heard is partly sold to Major Wilson and Mr. Moon. The acreage I have not heard. [press association.] NEW PLYMOUTH, Wednesday. At the Harbour Boar l, to day, the committee reported that they had selected, from the candidates for the position or engineer to the Board, the following four for the Board to Belect from :—Knorpp, Wellington; Kees, Taranaki; Latham, Christchurch; and Ayton, Christchurch. The Board adjourned till to-morrow at 2 o'clock, when it will decide upon the engineer to be chosen. There is nothing fresh respecting the natives. NAPIER, Wednesday. The trial of McLennan, for wife murder, has been postponed to the December sittings of the Supremo Court, in order that inquiries may be made in England as to the prisoner's antecedents.

Michael Roylan waa found guilty of selliDg a gun to a native without a licence, and sentence was deferred.

Stuart and Co. have assigned their estate to Messrs. Pulford and Wardrop, for the benefit of their creditors. The assets are about £60,000, and the liabilities about £52,000, the exact surplus being £S3OO. The financial pressure is the cause of the insolvency.

WELLINGTON, Wednesday.

Nothing further has transpired re the Speakership of the Legislative Council, but it is rumoured that the appointment will be offered to Sir William Fitzherbert. Several rumours are afloat as to its probable reception by Sir William, one being that he will refuse it in order to assume the leadership of the Opposition party in the House of Representatives.

The reason which induced His Excellency to remove his son from the Wellington College to Nelson had no connection whatever with any educational coutrast between the two institutions. On tho contrary. His Excellency had no fault to fiud with the Wellington College as an educational institution.

A largely-attended meeting of the J.P.s was held this morning. Mr. Mansford, R.M., said the meeting had been called at the request of the Government. Tha object was to make arrangements to carry on the business o£ the 11. M. Court pending the appointment af a second magistrate. It was agreed that a rota should be prepared of all present, who pledged themselves to appear as their names appeared on the list. An amended iinancial statement of the Education Board Bhews a deficiency of £7000, after exhausting the Government grant for the two years. ■i A newly-formed Naval Brigade have offered their services to the Government to go to the front.

Mr. Davies, engineer, and the Tramway Company, are playing a game at cross purposes. The company owed Mr. Davies money, and Mr. Davies owed the company money. The lawyers failed to settle the matter amicably, and Mr. Davies yesterday seized one of the tramway carriages. The company paid cash, and to-day they put an execution into Mr. Davies's honse to recover their debt. The City Council have recommended to have all the houses numbered. CSKISTCHURCH, Wednesday. An attempt will shortly be made here to start a junior lodge of Oddfellows. At Saturday's meeting of the Canterbury Corn Exchange, it was resolved to bring under the notice of the Minister for Public Works the necessity of again allowing a rebate of 9d per ton to tfle owners of a private store, saying that the tariff rates at present in force on the Canterbury railways were most oppressive and prejudicial to the farming interest; that copies of th« correspondence be sent to the Manager of Railways, and that the Canterbury members bring the matter prominently before the Government. It was aleo resolved, " That the Exchange bring before the merchants the necessity for sacks being of a uniform size of four bushels." A man named Wright was charged at Lyttelton with forging and uttering a cheque for £8 10s 6d, purporting to have been drawn by one Robert Johnson, contractor. After hearing the evidence, the Bench committed the accused for trial at the next sittings of the Supreme Court. A sign of the times is that no less than 70 civil cases are set down for hearing at the R.M. Court to-morrow.

The City and Sydenham Borough Councils had a conference to day, re giving work to the unemployed, bat neither seemed willing to put their hands in their pockets, though neither apparently had any obj« ction to take a grant from the Government. The meeting, after a lengthy discussion, came to no result, and broke up in the most admired disorder. Seven more applications for space have been received by the Exhibition Commissioners besides one for the Exhibition only. So far 150 free passes have been issued for the Waipara Railway Works. OAMARU, Wednesday. Arrangements have been made to turn the first sod" of the Livingstone Railway Extension on Saturday. A special train will convey the visitors. The Baldwins are here, and are drawing crowded houses.