LATEST TELEGRAMS.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 376, 26 April 1879, Page 15

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

(TER PRESS AGENCY.) Masterton, Thursday. The young man Worsdell, who was charged by Mr. Masou with stealing £l2 from his dwelling, was committed for trial this morning. He reserved his defence. Dr. Buller is engaged in the Masterton Court on a native case. Auckland, Thursday. A match has been made, for £SO aside, for a distance of one mile, for the championship of Auckland, between T. Brown, of Mercury Bay, and J. O’Connor, of Timaru. At the Aiburnia meeting to-day the report stated that 15s. had been paid in dividend. 8353 tons crushed for 52530z5. of gold, value £13,508. William Crossley, a sou of a clergyman, was charged with stealing a lady’s cloak. He said he had been drinking hard all the week. The prisoner was also convicted of stealing a pair of trousers and a waistcoat, and was sentenced to three months’ hard labor for each offence.

A young man from San Francisco, who laid long odds at the recent races, gave valueless cheques to the bookmakers for the losses to the amount of £370, and then bolted. One of the bookmakers pursued him, and compelled him to give up a diamond ring and other jewellery worth £9O.

Napier, Thursday. An attempt was made to-night to set fire to the newly-built Napier district school. Two heaps of paper and shavings saturated with kerosene were piled against the wall in the back yard, aud were found blazing by a man named Dean, who was passing by. He stamped the fire out, aud then found that the wall was much charred. There was no one about at the time, aud the police are making inquiries. It is understood that the general manager of the Union Insurance Company, who is now iu Napier, has arranged with the directors of the Hawke’s Bay Insurance Company to take over, on satisfactory terms, the whole of the business of the latter company. Gisborne, Thursday. Both local papers state that the difficulties with the natives, which have been pending for many years past relative to Johnson’s valuable run of over 20,000 acres, have been amicably aud satisfactorily settled. Christchurch, Thursday. C. Greenwood was brought before the Resident Magistrate’s Court, charged with embezzling about £l6 from Mr. Barker, auctioneer, hia employer. He was remanded till the 30tli. James Whitehead, charged with forging a cheque for £ls 16s. 9d., at the Timaru branch of tho Union Bank, was remanded to Timaru. “ Sinbad,” in the Weekly Press, says Mr. Vallanco has purchased Volunteer, who ran such a good second in the recent Champagne

Stakes, from Mr. Dunn. The horse will undergo his Derby preparation under Mason’s care at Yaldhurst. A man named John Urwin was admitted to tho hospital yesterday suffering from a frightful wound on the right eye, inflicted by a person named Black with a loaded whip, during a disturbance originated, it is said, by Urwin. The case will probably come before the Police Court. Dr. Von Haast to-night delivered the first of a series of lectures on the “ History of Pictorial Art” in the lecture theatre of Canterbury College. A deserter named John Wilson, from the ship Margaret Galbraith, was brought down from Auckland and forwarded to where the vessel is lying. A wife deserter named Lancaster arrived to-day from Wellington, in custody. Owners should remember that nominations for the Grand National close at 8 p.m., on Saturday, at Warner’s Hotel, Christchurch. At a meeting of the Acclimatisation Society to-day a petition was read asking the society to proclaim an open season for shooting hares. The application was declined. The society resolved to apply to the Government, with a view to having coursing licenses extended to South Canterbury. The petition of the Canterbury College to the Queen against granting a royal charter to the Otago University was signed to-day for transmission. In a letter to Miss Mitchell, of Lyttelton, Mr. Hislop, the secretary of the Education Board, states that the Government is willing to contribute towards the expenses of an institution for the education and training of deaf mutes if an association is established for that purpose. They will pay £65 a year towards the rent of a building, and grant a subsidy at the rate of £1 for every £1 received by the association from subscriptions or donations, and will pay a subsidy of not less than £2O per annum towards the Board of Education for

every child whose parents are unable to pay the charge of admission to the institution, and move Parliament to grant a vote in aid of the institution erecting buildings on freehold land. Blenheim, Thursday. The Agricultural Show was a fair success. It was the best show yet held here for carthorses. There were some very good samples of grain. Barley : T. Redwood, Ist prize ; Isaac Gifford, 2nd. Wheat : E. Paul, Ist ; T. Redwood, 2nd. Oats : Redwood Brothers, Ist \ T. Redwood, 2nd. Potatoes (white): Dal■iel, Ist ; Muirhead, 2nd. Potatoes (brown) : C. Redwood, Ist; Dalziel, 2nd. Kumara, Thursday. In a number of cases at the Resident Magistrate’s Court to-day, the School Commissioners of Westland against several occupiers of sections of education reserves, for arrears of rent, counsel for the defence took exception to the magistrate adjudicating on the case, as he was formerly a commissioner, although he had now resigned. The magistrate coincided in that view, and adjourned the cases for three weeks, for another magistrate to hear them.

Dunedin, Thursday. The immigrants who recently arrived are readily meeting with engagements at current rates of wages. At a meeting of the Education Board to-day it was resolved that the Board had no objection to the establishment of savings banks in schools, but further than sending circulars it will take no action in the matter. The Board has purchased an acre of land in Dunedin from Mr. Eliott, for £2500.