LATE TELEGRAPHIC.

New Zealand Times, Volume XLX, Issue 8163, 15 August 1887, Page 6

LATE TELEGRAPHIC.

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Txmaru, August 14. The special annual meeting of the Racing •Club was held on Saturday night. The report of the Secretary was deemed satisfacitory. A summary of the balance-sheet showed the receipts of the spring and summer meetings held since the last annual meeting, ■including a credit balance of £69 2s 9d, were £92 12a 9d. The expenditure was £66 12s 6d, thus leaving a credit balance of £26. The spring meeting was very successful, but the summer meeting was not, a loss of £43 2s 6d being incurred. It was decided not to amalgamate with the S.O.J.C. The Committee fixed the next meeting for the cattle show week, in October. Oamaru, August 14.

A meeting of the Waitaki branch of the Educational Institute was held yesterday. It •was decided to put on record their opinion that Bishop Neville’s statement with reference to the morality of public shools was • unwarranted. With reference to retrenchment in teachers' salaries, it was decided that as and 5 per cent reductions had already been made in teachers’ salaries they should be not farther reduced until all the salaries under the Board be reduced, and then only if the necessities of the Colony demanded it. New Plymouth, August 14. A man named Isaac Day was arrested yeaterday on suspicion of murdering his son at Norfolk-road. He came into New Plymouth by the 11 a,m. train and gave himself up to the police, saying he had thrown his boy Francis (who is five years of age) over the fence and broken his neck. He was brought before the Resident Magistrate and remanded till Monday, on a charge of murder on his own confession. When the evening train arrived, it was found that the story was a myth, the prisoner’s children being all quite well. Doctors have examined the prisoner and pronounced him insane. Ho will be brought before the Court to-morrow on a charge of lunacy. It is stated the cause of his malady is owing to distressed circumstances. A youth named Thomas Hargraves was . arrested for embezzlement from his employer, Chew Chong; also for the larceny of various articles of jewellery, etc., which were found iln the possession of his sweetheart, who alleges that the prisoner gave them to her as presents. Tauranga, August 13. The b.b. Clansman, for hero from Auckland, broke down off Tairua this morning through an accident to her boiler. She will will come on to-night. The passengers and mails were brought on by the s.s. Douglas. Auckland, August 13. The Onehunga Woollen Mills are now fairly - started, and it is anticipated that some of their tweeds will be ready for inspection next week. At the Police Court yesterday, a young 'man named James Balfour was committed for trial on a charge of forging a cheque for -£2. Balfour had also signed a cheque for .£2BO in his own name, alleging that he had that amount to iris credit in the Timaru branch of the National Bank, and wished to draw the sum in Auckland, but the bank officers took the precaution to hold over the order. The hundredth anniversary conservation of the first Anglican Bishop in the colonies was celebrated by service at St. Sepulchre’s Church last night. Bishop Cowie and a large number of Anglican clergy were present. It is stated that daring the past week -officers of the Railway Department from Wellington have been quietly making inquiries on the Waikato Railway line as to recent complaints of settlers with respect to the railway arrangements. A singular contretemps occurred at the police court to-day, when a respectable-look-ing girl, named Roaina Jackson, was charged •with larceny at Napier. For the accused it was pointed out that she was illegally -detained on a search warrant, instead of an information. The -search warrant, too, was drawn in a slipshod manner, and •showed gross carelessness. Having referred ■to various irregularities in the warrant, her -counsel asked that the accused might be immediately discharged. Sergeant Pratt said the warrant did not emanate from the police. The Bench discharged accused on the ground of a faultiness of warrant,; and that she was not legally in custody. A fresh information was afterward laid. • The Committee of the Auckland Racing Club decided yesterday that Mr Evett be reappointed bandicapper, with the understanding that the handicaps pass through the Committee’s hands before being issued. This step was taken after discussion on a petition from horse-owners on the subject. Dunedin, August 13. A boy named Alfred Ronghton pluckily rescued from drowning to-day anothsr lad named John Smith. The latter, seven years of age, was spearing fish at the steps of the wharf, when he fell in, and he was sinking for the third time when young Roughton jumped in and rescued him.; Ronghton only to swim a little last summer.