TELEGRAPHIC.

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 7765, 24 April 1886, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Kaieodba, April 23. The Taiaroa broke in two yesterday, parting a little abaft the funnel. The after part baa simply settle I down, the forepart remaining as before. Very little more baa been got off the wreck, Auckland, April 22. In the ossa of Mrs Emily Walsh charged with absconding from her creditors at Blenheim, the prosecution was withdrawn, £2OO being paid to Bargood, Ewan and 00. for the benefit of the creditors. In a similar obarge against her husband Osoar Walsh, accused was remanded to BLnbeim, April 23, Messrs H, H. Lusk and W. L. Bees, solicitor!, proceed by the outgoing mail boat to Samoa in connection with the land troubles between Messrs Cornwall and McArthur. Damages are laid at £IO,OOO, but the real fight is over 200,000 aorei of land, A number of curious legal points are likely to crop up in the case, and it will probably be carried on appeal first to the Supreme Court in Fiji and lastly to the Privy Council. Mr Barry’s residence at Takapuna, with the contents, were burned down. The insurances are not known.

Mr John Stewart, of Victoria-street, and Russell Pulfotd, a boy of five years, son of Mr W. 8, Pulfotd, were drowned by the cap.iizing of a boat through a squall off the sugar works. Ooilins Stewart, sou of the deceased, swam for tbe shore, sod was rescued by a lad named William Parsons in a boat. Young Stewart last Saw his father with Pulford on hie bank, the boat having gone down. Nelson, April 22.

The steamer Charles Edward has just left for Wanganui with the Nelson Volunteers, who to tbe number of 252 will fcke part in tbe Easter encampment there. The news of the registration of a company to construct the East and West Coast and Nelson Railway baa caused great satisfaction, Blenheim, April 22. A telegram.'from Kekerangu reports that the Taiaroa has broken in two at tbe main hatoh. Tbe after part is breaking np fast, and the cargo and wreckage is coming ashore, Dunedin, April 22.

John McCormick, a miner, working in ths Otago claim, Blue Spur, was knocked off a ledge 20 feet high by a fall of earth, and bus. tained severe internal iojuiiei A syndicate has been form-d iu London for carrying out the Lawyer’s Head Canal scheme. It is not intended to proceed with legislation this session. The results of the Dunedin city census show a population of 23.216 against 21,372 iu 1831. There are only 481 uninhabited houses in the city. The suburbs show 22.959 against 18,102 in 1881. A baker was fined £2 10s and ooets for selling light bread. Tfle magistrate characterised it aq a fraud which affected the poor materially. The Judge has reserved his decision in the case where Mrs Dalbedy sought to recover from bet husband.

April 23. To-day was observed as a close holiday. The Volunteers left at an early hour fur Oamaru, the Dunedin men being taken in trucks with canvas covers.

Some tourists were going out in a baggy this afternoon when the horse bolted, sod one lady was injured, but not seriously. The trap naa smashed to pieoda through coming into collision with a building, Agnes Graham, a girl 10 years of sge, dropped down dead yesterday while on her way to school, Inveboaboili, April 22.

The prospectus of the Mokouui Pioneer Gold Mining Company (Limited) is out, with a capital of £20,000 in £1 shares, 5000 shares to go to the present proprietors. Hunter and Co., who have sank two shafts to paying prospects. The Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce has telegraphed to the Colonial Treasurer to bring the merits of Foveanx Strait and Stewart Island as fishing gronnda before Messrs Hendry and Henderson, the Scottish fishermen now inspecting tbs Colony for a site for fish-curing purposes. Christchurch, April 22.

Mr C. C. Bowen has received the following cable message from Mr H. A. Ejcott, West Coast Railway delegate id Lqndon -Company registered Requisite qapjtal- Underwritten Directory: Charles Clifford, Messrs Thus; Salt, Tbornei (1 Hoare), Hilton, Barnett, and Davis,'*

Six hundred Volunteers left by special train at 10.15 to-night for the Oamaru encampment.

April 23. At the Supreme Court yesterday, a case, in which a barman named George Ritchie claimed £l5O damages, for slander, against Tom Green, licensee of the Sydenham Hotel, resulted in a verdict for one farthing without costs.

Mr R. Beetham, R.M., yesterday fined a publican £lO and costa for supplying a drunken mau with liquor. The case was brought forward by two well-known advocates of total abstinence, who followed the man into the hotel to see whether the barman would serve him.

Mr David Maoson, farmer, of Ooalgate, died at the Hospital this morning from con. elusion of the brain, the resort of a fal\ from his horse on Tuesday last,