TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 5678, 11 June 1879, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(PER PRESS AGENCY.) Wanganui, Tuesday. At the District Court yesterday, Edward Tolley, late of Wellington, was found guilty of stealing canvas belonging to Krull and Co. He will be sentenced to-day. Auckland, Tuesday. The natives have made another discovery of coal at Whangarei on laud bought five years ago by the Government. The Reception Committee resolved to give the Governor a hall on Thursday fortnight. The Governor will be driven into town escorted by cavalry, and be received under the triumphal arch at the bottom of Queea-street by the Mayor and citizens. Rewi to-day visited the Three Kings’ Institution, and was entertained by the Rev. Mr. Buddie. He has also visited the Maori graves at Whangarei. At a meeting of the creditors of G. Thompson, clerk (liabilities £199, assets nil), the bankrupt was discharged. At an inquest on the remains of the illegitimate child of Mrs, Hart, the jury found a verdict of “ Overlain by misadventure and found dead in bed.” The funeral of the late Samuel Cochrane was largely, attended by citizens and representatives. .

The Wade and Puhoi Steamboat Company, at a meeting to-day, resolved to wind up. •It is expected to pay 15s in the £. Dunedin, Tuesday.

A rumor is current that the tender of Messrs. Walter Bell and Co. has been accepted for the reclamation in connection with the Dunedin railway site, the amount being £58,000. The damage done by the fire at Roy so, Stead, and Co.’s was £l6O, which is fully covered by insurance. It is not deemed necessary to have an inquest. Mr. McLean, in the Manuherikia County Council, carried a resolution agaimst the employment of Chinese on the county works. A meeting of the Acclimatisation Society took place to-day, when a letter was read from the Colonial Secretary, stating that Mr. A. M. Johnston, of Christchurch, had applied for permission to catch trout in the Middle Island, for. the purpose of artificial propagation. This permission the Colonial Secretary felt inclined to grant, but asked the concurrence of the Otago Society. The Council decided to inform the Colonial Secretary that so far as Otago was concerned they looked after the propagation, &c., of the salmon, and if he wanted ova he would oblige by applying to them. Deanes, the manager of the Society, who broke his leg lately, is not yet able to resume duty. A meeting of gentlemen was held in the Mayor’s room to-day, for the purpose of taking steps to entertain Judge Bathgate, prior to his leaving for the Old Country, where, as has already been intimated, he intends delivering a series of lectures, with a view of attracting the attention of desirable people willing to settle.in the colony. It was determined to entertain Mr. Bathgate at a public banquet on the 27th instant. An influential committee was appointed to make the necessary arrangements. At Gutram, yesterday, William Henderson and Robert Robinson, of Waipori, were charged with shooting hares out of season, but the witnesses relied on by the prosecution, when put into the box, denied seeing any hares in the possession of the accused, or of knowing anything regarding the shooting of hares. Inspector Mallard, who conducted the, prosecution; said it was simply a case of witnesses having told the police one story and swearing to another, and he could therefore only accept a dismissal .

The opening of the Shag Point line will take place on Tuesday. 17th instant. The contractor for the first section of the Waihemo railway commenced operations last week, and work is progressing favorably. The Mayor of Palmerston has been served with a writ, at the instance of Mr. R. R. Murray, claiming £2OO damages to property through bad drainage. A fire occurred on Friday night last at a house situated on the Dunstan-road, Palmerston, belonging to Mr. H. Ouahen. The only ! damage done was the burning of a portion of the reof. The building was not insured. Oh Sunday last, at Tapanni, a man struck one of the Chinamen engaged on the railway works there with a whip, and passed on. The Chinaman failed to appreciate the salutation, and he immediately turned to the right about, and neatly planted his foot in the back part of his friend the whipman, but who failing to overtake John, set upon another Chinaman who happened to come in the way, brutally assaulted him. The cries of the victim attracted the attention of other Chinamen in the vicinity to the number of about thirty, who, attacking the Englishman, gave him such a handling that there is reason to believe he will remember it as long as he lives. An effort is just now being made by some prominent business men in Oamaru to float a company, to be named the Oamaru Grown Flour Mills and Baking Company (Limited), with a capital of in 10,000 shares of £b each.

Mr. Watt, at Port Chalmers tills morning, sentence 1 Martin Oiio'.in, boatswain of the ship Benareq to one month's imprisonment for stealing one pair of earrings, valued at £2 10s., the property of William Maitland, one of the apprentices of the same Vessel.

Mr. H. Kowarth has accepted the appointment of Resident Magistrate at Dunedin. The Weather-tone Cement Goldmilling Company washed up yesterday, with very good results. Aft-r live weeks’ crushing, a dividend of £IOO per quarter-share has been allowed. The cement claims at Waitahuna are very promising. The Morn in;/ Herald states that the subject of construction of a double line of raihvayifrom Port Chaim -rs to Mosgiel is likely to be brought forward at the next Parliament. The work on the line at present is so heavy that difficulty ia experienced in overtaking it. The funeral of the late Alexander McLean, of McLean Brothers, who died suddenly on Sunday, taok place this afternoon in the Anderson’s Bay Cemetery, and was attended by a very large number of friends and relations of the deceased. Christchurch, Tuesday. The case of the City Council v. Ogden, for holding a cheap-jack stall in Cathedral-square, broke down. Mr. Garrick, counsel for the City Council, found a case in the last number of the Law Journal which cut the ground from under the feet of the plaintiffs. The Water Supply Committee hold a meeting on Thursday to consider Mr. Clark’s letter re the water supply. A telegram has been received from Colonel Whitmore thanking the Christchurch Artillery Volunteers for the offer of the battery to proceed to the front in the event of a Maori outbreak. While thanking the Volunteers for their patriotic and important offer, the. Government do not think at present it will be necessary to avail themselves of it. In consequence of the Government declining to grant any subsidy to the City Council and the Sydenham Borough Council for the purpose of giving work to the unemployed, these two bodies will hold a conference to-morrow, to see if they can come to any satisfactory arrangement to carry on the work of forming the South Town Belt, which is the boundary line between the two boroughs. Another batch of tho unemployed was forwarded to Waipara to-day. There are now a considerable number of unemployed at Ashburton, who held a meeting to day, when a memorial was adopted to the Mayor requesting him to call a public meeting on the subject. Bor some days a lunatic has been hovering about the Little River bush. On Saturday he called at the house of a Mrs. Clarke, who lives ill a lonely spot. He seized her little boy and was going to cut his throat. Her cries brought some surveyors who were working near to her assistance, and the man was captured and lodged in the Little Bush lock-up. A sum of £2OO was found on him.

Mr. Geo. Darrell’s play of “ Transported for Life ” was produced successfully. On Monday Mr. Towle produces “ H.M.S. Pinafore” with amateurs, followed on Wednesday by “Ernani.” The private subscriptions for unemployed relief amount to £SO.

The entries for the Harden Puppy and Christchurch Stakes, of the Christchurch Coursing Club, close ou the IGtb, at the Shades, Christchurch.