TELEGRAMS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 5673, 26 April 1880, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(Per Pjjkss Association Speciai- Wire.)

Auckland, April 24tb. At the Police Court to-day, the embracery case was adjourned till Friday next. Charges of swindling ia connection with tbe totalisator were also adjourned. The Auckland Volunteers intend to hold a review and sham fight on the Qaeen's Birthday, and will probably invite the Thames Volunteers to be present.

Mr Waktfi^ld, undersecretary, has gone to tbe Bay of Islands, and then visits Whangarei and the Thames.

Subscriptions are being raised for Taylor, the jf.ckejr, who had his leg broken in the Autumn Handicap. The Hon. the Native Minister haa been engaged all day with a moiley assemblage of Natives and Europeans on the subject of Jand survey. Some of these surveys have been stopped on various grounds, and the vendees are naturally anxious that the obstructions should be removed. The most important caie is that of the Pat ere block, the survey of which was stopped in order to avert a threatened dieturbance.

The totalisators were seized at the rasecoursa and their proprietors arrested, because the police had been informed that the numbers had been altered so that the backets of certain winning horses did |not get their proper percentage of the stakes. The names of the men arreßted are Richards, Corbett, and Adams. The whoh of the apparatus and money were also seized.

_. . Gisboene, April 24th. oince the new trustees, Messrs Coleman and Glark, in ReeB1 case, arrived here about three weeks ago, negotiations have been going on between them, Wi Peri, and Mr Bees, who represents the Natives, with a view to a settlement of long-pendiug disputes and litigation regarding land titles in Keid's estate. Yesterday a large meeting of Natives waß held, at which Mr Coleamn, Wi Peri, and Mr Kees Bpoke, the latter announcing that a fair and amicable settlement of ail the long-contested cases had been arrived at, and that there would be no farther litigation. This announcement has caused general satisfaction in the district, and it ia believed other disputed caeca of tide will be similarly Bottled,

„■ m ..,,. New Plymouth, April 24tb. Mr Williams, the proprietor of the Eabank Ironworks in New South Wales, arrived last evening Uom Wellington. He proceeded thia morning to the Henui Ironworks for the purpose of. inspecting the plans and works. Mr Williams* intends taking 10 tons of ironsand from New Plymouth to the Eibank Ironworks for treatment.

Tne Agricultural Society last night passed a vote of thanks to Mr Hetley, cattle inspector, f:r the steps he had taken to prevent cattle being brought here from Auckland, and thus preventing the spread of pleuro-pneumoina in this district.

Wellington, April 24th. At 12.30 this morning the Jury gave a verdict iv the tramway case which was substantially for the plaintiffs. Upon the verdict theCourfc will have to make an award. The police are investigating the circumstances connected with tue fire at Berhampoor.

_ George Longhurst, sentenced at the last sessions to 10 years' and two whippings, received the first 25 lashes this morning. He bore it unflinchingly, but suffered severely. The report of the medical examiners denies that the prisoner suffers from heart-disease. The steamer Manawatu, which broke down on her trip from Wanganui, was towed into port this morni»g. The idj ury done is that the crown of her boiler has fallen in. The strictest inquiry will be held a? to the circumstances connected with the damage.

The Civil Service Commissioners have divided —Messrs Kelly and Douglas going to Auckland via Taranaki, and Messrs Saunders and Pharazyn via Napier. They stop at Napier and Taranaki, and after a .visit to Auckland they will proceed to Nelson and Blenhaim. Both parties is accompanied by a shorthand writer.

The Wellington Hotel was broken into early thin morning, and about L4O in noteu and gold abstracted. An entrance was effected through a window about 12 feet from the ground bymeans of a ladder. The police are investigating the matter, but have no clue ts the offender.

The body of a married woman named Jane Angus, aged 60, was found on the beach at Oriental Bay this morning. She was seen alive at 9 last night, when she left a friend's house to proceed home. It ia thought that she baicg shortsighted walked over the breastwork near Oriental Bay. An inquest will be held tomorrow.

It is understood that the Grey town saction cf the Welliogton-Masterfcon railway will be opened about the middle of next month. The delegates of the Working Men's Smallfarm Association express themselves greatly pleased with the land they have inspected in the Forty-mile Bush. The object of the inspection was to ascertain if the land waa suitable for special settlement.

Christchurch, April 24th. At Dunsandel man named Macpherson was carting grain in a dray on Thursday when the horse bolted. Macpherson jumped off, aad hb feet got entangled in the reins, the wheel passing over him and breaking his thigh. Mr Ritchie tikes per Island Lily to the Chatham Islands Middleton, winner of the Christchurch Maiden Plate and Metropolitan and other thoroughbred stack. A fire took place this mornicg, just before 12 o'clock, at the corner of Durham and Tuam streets, near St. Micbael's Church. It was blowing haid from the S.W. at the time, and several small cottages were burnt down before the Brigade could master the fire. The scene was a nest of old wooden houses, luckily of email size, as had there been a good body of fire D. Keeee's timber-yard, close at hand, and in the track of the flames, would probably have caught light. Toe insurances are not known at present. The cause of the fire was also unknown.

J. T. Ford and Co. held a sale of racehorses to-day, but only disposed of Mireille, by Traducer out of Opera, for L4O. The purchaser was Mr Beaumont, of Heai.hc.jte. Satellite was passed in at L9O, Blazing Star at L 27 10s, and Rore, a three year-old, by Totara—Corona, at L 45.

At an icquest held this afternoon on the body of Thomas Duffy, railway porter, killed yesterday at Addington Btation, a verdict of ''Accidental death" was returned. The evidence showed that after deceased had uncoupled the waggons he signalled to the engine-driver to come back. The driver did bo, and deceased jumped on the handle of the brake. In jampiog he missed his hold, and was seen to turn ronpd when he fell across the line before the engine. The gatekeeper, who saw the accident, at once cried out, and the driver immediately reversed the engine, but knew there was something on the line from the tender jumping. When he got down he found deceased quite dead, lying between the leading and bogie wheeh of the engine. Some of the jurora, before glvivg their verdict, remarked on the dangerous practice of railway employees riding on the brake handles, and considered that a man 55 years of age was too old to be employed at shunning work. A large land Bale was held to-day of acre sections in the township of Waikari belonging to Mr G. H. Moore, of Glenmark. The prices obtained ranged from L 55 to L 230.

m Timabd, April 25bh. The South Canterbury Board of Education returns for the March quarler show 3346 children on the rol), as against 3035 for the previous quarter. There are now 29 schools open, employing 79 teachers.

, Reefton, April 24ih. The Keep it-Dark Company crushed 180 tons of quartz, yielding 3750z of amalgan. Total yield for the fortnight, 170oz of gold.

Queenstown, April 24th. The Mount Aurum (late Nugget and Cornish) crushing yielded 970z.