TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 4275, 2 December 1874, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

[Press Telegraph Agency.] Auckland, Tuesday. Cecilia Allen, the girl charged with arson at the North Shore, has made a full confession. She said she also tried to sot fire to another place. Another case of fever has occurred at the quarantine station to a child named which will cause the detention of all the immigrants in quarantine for a further period. The entries for the various events of the Auckland races close to-night. Notwithstanding a fresh case of scarlet fever at the quarantine station, the single men will be brought up to-morrow in the Pretty Jane. The Public Works department has intimated to the Harbor Board that it cannot permit the substitution of an hydraulic ’lift for the dock. Under the Loan Act £50,000 worth of debentures of the dock loan have been sent to Sydney, reports thence favoring the possibility of negotiating them. 7 p.m. Cecelia Allen’s confession indicates that she possessed a monomania for fire-raising. She attempted several fires in Auckland some time ago, but was stopped by the neighbors. Geahamstown, Tuesday. At the Odd Bellows' anniversary soiree last night several speakers commented on the Government system of industrial assurance. At the quarterly licensing meeting to-day no feature of general interest cropped up. New Plymouth; Tuesday. The natives living along the coast about Parihaka have been trying to change some water-washed Sydney Bank notes. They say they found them in the pocket of a waistcoat washed ashore about the end of September, when pieces of wreck were reported on Harriet beach. There were fifteen notes in one pocket and three in another. The waistcoat was with other clothes in a seaman’s bag. It is supposed now that the wreck reported was that of the Eleanor, from Newcastle for Lyttelton. Dunedin, Tuesday. A deputation from the Harbor Board waited on the Hon. Mr. Reynolds to-day in re the delegation of powers by the Government. Mr Reynolds said there was no objection on the part of the General Government to delegate to the Board similar powers to those given to the Auckland Board. The Licensing Bench refused a majority of the applications for publicans’ licenses. Mr. Bathgate, as chairman, remarked on the absurdity of the course hitherto followed of first refusing and then, after the same applicant had persistently applied for a renewal, granting it. He said the present Bench would adopt a totally different policy, and refuse, unless under very strong circumstances, to grant a license that had once been refused. Anyone once fined by the Bench need never apply for another license. The concrete roof of the colonnade of the new court-house at Lawrence fell in this morning with a great crash. The damage is extensive. The loss will fall on the contractor.