TELEGRAMS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 11505, 18 August 1899, Page 5

TELEGRAMS

(Per United Press Association.)

AUCKLAND, August 17.

At the Police Court a girl named Emily Alice Murphy was charged with stealing four gold rings and two gold, chains from the dwelling of Charles Franchet, Union street. The girl sat in the dock in a very weak state, and in the early part of the morning she .had a fit in the prisoners' waiting room. She was attended during the hearing of the case by a lady. It will be remembered the girl was recently iden-' tified with the bogus marriage notice ■'Taylor—Murphy," .which she admitted she published in the Star. The evidence in the case disclosed that the girl had' boarded in Franchet's house, and whilethere she stole the .rings and gold chain. The girl was committed for trial.'

It is reported that the oyster cutter Willie Winkle, which was. lying, at anchor oft' Parker's Island, Coromandel, on Monday last, has disappeared, and was not to be seen to-day. It is surmised she has been earned out into the gulf.

A petition is in course, of signature here to the General Assembly urging the House to pass during the present session an act similar to the acts passed by Parliaments in Australia for submitting the question of federation with the Commonwealth to a vote to the electors of New Zealand, and, if the majority is in the affirmative, for

the carrying of such vote into effect. It is understood that Mr John Stevenson, railway stationmaster at Auckland, who was reduced in grade and salary and promotion barred for two years for alleged breach of the railway regulations in connection with the running of a light engine in connection with the breaking down of a train near Onehunga, has resigned

his position in the service as a protest) against what he deems the injustice of the departmental decision. Mr Stevenson has been 26 years in the service without a mark aginst him, rising from a cadet to his present position.

■ The mayor of Onehunga was presented by the master mariners trading to Oneliunga with a petition supporting him in his endeavour to get the Government to remove the sand bank near Onehunga wlnirf on which the TaUapuna stuck. The

mayor of Auckland and the City Council support the movement.

The tug boat Sterling is reported as breaking up at Kaipara Heads.

The Federation League here contemplate inviting the Hon. E. Buxton, of Sydney, to speak to the people of New Zealand oh federation.

WELLINGTON, August 17. Obituary: F. H. Ihbetson, until lately clerk of the court'at Masterton. He was a, very old civil servant. Lieutenant-commanding Campbell has been promoted to the position of. Lieu-tenant-instructor of the Naval Brigade, with the rank of commander, and has in consequence relinqii: shed the commapd of

le Wellington Navals.

Harold Ouiadale Worth, a well-known artist, dropped dead last night from heart disease while sitting down, to his supper. He leaves a wife and two children.

The man Midgeley, who was rescued by Constable Ryan from . the

harbour a few nights ago, died suddenly in the gaol last night. He had been suffering from the effects of drink, and when he was sentenced to three months' imprisonment the magistrate (Mr Haseldean) said it was more a case for the hospital than the goal, and expressed regret that the colony did not possess ar ; institution suitable to receive such caser