TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 4251, 4 November 1874, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

[Press Telegraph Agency.] Auckland, Tuesday. The inquest on the late fire in Wakefield - street was resumed to-day. Five witnesses were examined. The evidence so far tends to show that incendiarism has been committed. Kelmsley and Woodward are still in custody on suspicion. Fifteen other witnesses will be examined. Sir George Arney leaves for Wellington tomorrow to attend the Court of Appeal. Wanganui, Tuesday. Commenting on the fact that two clerks in the Resident Magistrate’s Court, of long previous service, have been acquitted of embezzlement, the Herald says that something is radically -wrong in the department, and asks how many Government departments are managed in the same way. Tauranga, Tuesday. The Luna arrived at ten last night. Passengers—Bishop Williams, Judge Rogan, Captain Mair and contingent. The Superintendent and Mr. Holloway met the natives in the new Court House yesterday afternoon ; crowds of natives were present. Napier, Tuesday. Yesterday was observed as a holiday in. honor of the separation of the province. A large number of persons went to Green Meadows. The Artillery Volunteers fired for a prize—a handsome gold star, of local manufacture—presented by Sergeant-Major Grey. It was won by Gunner Cox. Colonel StJohn was present, and complimented the men on their efficiency. The afternoon was very wet, and many of the excursionists weredrenched to the skin. Dinwiddie, Morrison and Co. are the successful tenderers for the right of advertising on the line from the Spit to Napier, Farndon, Hastings, Paid-Paid, and thence to Waipukurau. Dunedin, Tuesday. None of the original crew sailed in theOneca. The boys, by the influence of Mr. Mansfield, R.M., were placed on board the Swatara. Twelve cases of sly grog-selling will be heard' in the Magistrate’s Court to-day. In the only sly-grog case disposed of, Robert Cadzow has been fined the amount of a publican’s license, £2O. Mr. Bathgate said that in any case again brought before him he would fine the offender the full amount of £SO, even though it was the first offence. It is stated that Mr. Hawthorne, the rector of the High,School, resigns his post at the end of the year, on a year’s salary. The body of an infant was found amongst the bushes near Momington to-day. The whole of the charges against publicans, heard last week, for having more than one bar on their premises, have been dismissed. Mr: Bathgate held that it was not proved in any one of the cases that there was more than one public bar. Captain Crabb left by the Taranaki, on his - way to Napier, to-day, to take charge of the Rosalia, which put into Napier leaky, on her voyage from the north-west coast of America to Port Chalmers. At a meeting of the Harbor Board to-day, a letter was read from the Government, stating that they would be prepared to hand over everything connected with the Harbor Department to the Board to-morrow. The Chief Harbor-master, being the only officer, was placed entirely under the control of the Board. The financial committee recommended that' the Board's account should be kept in the Colonial Bank. On the subject of the debentures, it was . ordered that mortgage forms should be prepared for £50,000 next day, the loan to be for a term of thirty years from the Ist of January next, interest and principal to be payable at Dunedin, Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, or London. The first issue will be for £20,000. The resolutions to give effect to the committee’s recommendations were adopted. Mr. J. L. Gillies has been appointed treasurer. • It is stated that the Harbor Board has already £60,000 in hand. Port Chalmers, Tuesday. The ship Lennox Castle, 105 days from London, arrived yesterday. She lost a boy overboard from the mainyard-arm. She brings three bulls and three heifers of the shorthorn breed, for the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company. Resfton, Tuesday. The No. 2 South Larry’s cleaned up with the result of 686 oz. 14 dwts. of melted gold from about 800 tons of quartz, from a reef averaging about eighteen feet in thickness. In the north slope stone has been struck equal to that of the Caledonian. They will commence crushing at once. The Fiery Cross has cleaned up, with the result of 695 oz. of retorted gold from about 400 tons of quartz. The Just-in-Time party are now crushing. Lyttelton, Tuesday. The Phoebe sailed South at one o'clock p.m. and the Alhambra at five o’clock.