TELEGRAMS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume 6, Issue 605, 21 January 1879, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

« [from our special correspondent.] Wangantji, Yesterday. At the Police Court on Saturday morning, before a full bench, Sergeant Donnelly and Constable Buchanan were charged by Sub-Inspector Goodall with having used insulting language and behaviour towards each other in a public place, calculated to provoke a breach of the peace. The charge against Buchanan was dismissed ; that against Donnelly was sustained, the Bench imposing the mitigated penalty of forty shillings and costs, on the ground that the latter defendant was at the time laboring under a strong feeling of provocation, which, however, the Bench did not consider justified. The assault was the outcome of a feeling on Donnelly's mind that Buchanan was making too free with his (Donnelly's) wife.

■ • Christchuech, Yesterday. H. M. Moore, lately appointed editor of the Globe and until recently manager and editor of the New Zealander, died this morning of rheumatic iever. A passenger by the Mary Bannatyne, from the coast, jumped overboard on the voyage and was drowned. His name was Foster, and was supposed to be of unsound mind. A man named Butler, a servant, to Bassingthwaite, who is under remand on a charge of defrauding his creditors, was found hung in Bassingthwaite's stable at Kaiapoi on Sunday. He is supposed to have committed suicide. Ford and Co. sold Gilligan's horses Laertes and Javelin on Saturday. The former is entered for the Wellington Cup, Napier Handicap, and Dunedin Publican's Handioap. After a splendid competition, Laertes was knocked down to P. Buttler for 450 guineas, Javelin was sold to Mr. Delamain for 300 guineas. Jangler, the property of Mr. Williams, was also offered} but was passed in at 450 guineas.

Auckland, Yesterday. The schooner race in the Auckland Regatta, on the 29th instant, is exciting much interest amongst the masters of vessels. One hundred pounds and a valuable chronometer, worth about £50, are offered for the first prize. The Tore arrived from Lyttelton on Saturday for the purpose of competing, and the Myrtle, Caledonia, Oamaru, Albatross, Winifred, and many others are on their way to the port, and are expected to enter the list. The race is expected to be the best of the kind ever witnessed in Auckland. The regatta is expected to be an immense succes, more than £500 having been appropriated for prizes. A party of four men, who were proßpecting on the island of Waiheke for several months, last week brought to Auckland a quantity of specimens containing very heavy metal, supposed to be platinum. They also report finding gold. The specimens are said to have been found near manganese mines. Already four names are mentioned as probable candidates for the seat in the House of Representatives for City West, in place of Mr. Dignan. The names mentioned are W. J. Hurst, who arrived by the last mail steamer from England, and formerly Mayor in Auckland ; H. Brett, and proprietor of Auckland Scar, ex-Mayor ; Patrick Darby, and David Goldie. One of the main questions of the election will be that of Education. The whole of the immigrants per Maravel were engaged twelve hours after landing. A considerable number of men have gone as bushmen. The female servants were all taken up two hours after landing. It is rumoured that Mr. Tole has resigned the office of Commissioner of Colonial Education. A swindle of a somewhat unusual nature has just been brought to light. The matter is now in the hands of the police. A man named Parker, formely in business as a tailor, for sometime past has been in the habit of going round the city getting coats for the purpose of cleaning them. In all cases he told a pitiable tale, represented himself to be starving and unable to get work, although he was an excellent cleaner, dyer, and presser of clothes. He so far prevailed upon many of the leading merchants and tradesmen that they consented to give him coats to clean. No sooner, however, had he got them into his possession than he sold them at an old clothes shop for what they would bring and expended the money thus obtained in drink. This kind of thing went on for some time, many of the leading citizens being victimized. The bubble was, however, burst on Saturday, when one of the customers of tho coat cleaner and dyer observed his swallow-tail exposed for sale outside an old clothes shop in Wellesley-street. The police are on the track of the offender, and it is expected he will shortly be arrested. The property thus obtained amounts to many pounds in value.

Dunedin, January 20.

James Owen, the cook of the steamer Antrim, of Queenston, took strychnine poison on Saturday morning. He was a single man, and his act is attributed to jealousy. Medical' assistance was obtained, and he may recover.