TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 4888, 21 November 1876, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(PER PRESS AGENCY.) Taobanoa, Monday.

The Ngaterangis take prospecting parties to Kaimai to-morrow. The prospectors are quite determined not to return unsatisfied, and should the Piriraukaus obstruct, a row may be expected. Many influential settlers accompany the prospectors. Napier, Monday. A fatal accident occurred yesterday, at the Industrial School at Meanee, to a boy named Langhan. He was trying to draw the charge from a piece of the barrel of an old rifle about a foot long, which some of the other boys had loaded about six months ago, and torn attempted to fire it off by putting a match into the touch-hole ; the match, however, went out without reaching the phosphorus end, which was next to the powder. Yesterday, Langhan drove a nail into the touch-hole to draw the charge : this ignited the phosporus, and the charge went through his body. Ho died yesterday evening. He had been sent to the Industrial School for placing an obstruction on the railway line. iHis conduct was good while at the school. His father is now waiting trial on a charge of wife murder. Auckland, Monday.

The following weights for the two principal races to be run at the approaching summer meeting were declared to-day : —Auckland Club Handicap.—Guy Fawkes, 10st.; Templeton, 9st. 91b.; Fishhook, Bst. 71b.; Ariel, Bst. 41b.; Tadmor, Sat. 31b.; Danebury, 7ft. 121 b.;

All Steel, 7st. 101 b.; Elfin King, 7st, 71b.; Nero, 7st. 61b.; Perfume, 7st. 41b.; Middleton, 7st. 41b.;-Kingfisher, 7st. 31b.; Sprig of Shillelah, 7st. 31b.; Isaac Walton, 7st.; Eangi, fist.. 121 b; Tui, 6st. 121 b.; Maroro, 6st. 121 b.; Songster, fist. 121 b.; Fallacy, 6st. 101 b.; Bella, fist. 71b.; Discord, fist. 71b.; Folle Farine, fist. 71b; Aerolite, fist. 71b; Fanny Fisher colt, fist. 71b; Wrangler, fist.; Doncaster, fist. Auckland Cup.—Guy Fawkes, 9st. 101 b; Templeton, 9st. 41b,; Fishhook, fist. 41b.; Ariel, Bst. 21b; Tadmor, 7st. 121 b; -All Steel, 7st. 101 b.; Danebury, 7at. 101 b.; Dan, 7st. 71b.; Klfiu King, 7st. 71b; Nero, 7st. 71b; Kingfisher, 7st. 21b; Middleton, 7st. 31b.; MayMoon, fist. 125.; Isaac Walton, 6st. 121 b; Songster, fist. 101 b; Maroro, fist. 101 b.; Eangi, fist. 91b.; Belle, fist. 81b.; Tui, fist. 81b; Falle Farine, fist. 71b; Fallacy, fist. 71b; Discord, fist. 61b.; Aerolite, fist. 41b; Fanny Fisher colt, fist. 41b; Wrangler, 6st. 101 b; Doncaster, sst. 101 b.; Ladybird colt, sst. 101 b. The Spiritists in Auckland are mustering, and it is alleged are haunting a house formerly occupied by John Lawe, who committed s icide.

Dukedin, Monday.

A man named Jeremiah Doig laid a complaint before the Commissioner of Customs this morning against the master of the Industrial School. He stated that at 10 o’ clock last night his child, a girl 10 years old, came home, having escaped from the school. She had heavy irons on her legs, and the iron had eaten into the flesh. He said, too, she was in a weak and emaciated condition. Ten minutes after she arrived she was followed by the officers of the school and police, who removed her, with the irons still on, to the police station, whence she was taken to school again. Mr. McLean promised a strict investigation, and should'the statement prove true redress should be given. He said it was anything but his duty or desire to shield anyone who had committed such an offence as that alleged. A deputation of unemployed laborers waited on the Hon. G. McLean to-day, who promised them work on the Waikouaiti railway. The ship Dunedin is to be quarantined.

The Harbor Board decided to call for tenders for Butting a channel from the City Wharf to Port Chalmers, 75ft. wide and 16ft. deep. The Superintendent of Industrial School’s version of the girl’s escape from the Institution is that she is incorrigible. She has been sentenced to fourteen years altogether for larcenies of various kinds. She has several times escaped, necessitating her being fastened to her bed with irons, and on this occasion she split up the board to which her irons were fastened, and broke away through the window at ten o’clock at night, walking home with chains on her to her father’s. An enquiry is to be held. The Hon. G. McLean has sanctioned an expenditure on the Museum of £SOO. Christchurch, Monday. A large number of Canterbury "Volunteers will attend the Dunedin Rifle Association’s prize meeting. The Kaiapoi Rowing Clnb intend to send a four-oar crew to compete at the Nelson regatta. The new skating rink was opened on Saturday, and promises to be a success.^