LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Southland Times, Issue 2244, 24 December 1875, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Auckland, December 22. Sir George Grey argued to show that the whole tendency of the legislation of the List PaHi.iment was to elevate and enrich the present wealthy classes, against the interests of the mass of the people. He urged all electorates to elect only those who [ would pledge themselves to insist on a | reform of land transactions, adjustment of taxation, the dealing with runs so that all might have au equal ■ chance, election of members for three 1 years, and an alteration of the constitution of the Legislative Council He considered the Act of Indemnity of . last session should be repealed, so that • every case might be enquired into, and where penalties had been incurred i under the Disqualification Act, such : members as were re-elected to the new Parliament should be expelled. ' The Newton electors passed a unan- •. imous vote of confidence in Mr Swan- . son last night. No opposition is anticipated. 1 At the Hutt nomination Mr Fitz- > herbert and Mr Hutchison were \ proposed. The show of hands was as ' follows: — Fitzherbert, 34; Hutchison, 3. The latter demanded a poll, which \ is to come off on Friday. ! Sir George Grey and Mr Dignan ' have been elected for City West, un- , opposed, i Dunedin, Thursday. The Star says: — By last mail information was received hero that Mr Lanseigne, who committed suicide early in the year, had been left a large sum of money by the dea*h of a relative. According to Mr Murray, if an attempt is made next session to touch ' the land fund, the party with which . he workod would stop the Estimates . and waste time if necessary for twelve months. At the Colonial competition this ' morning, Richardson, Korth Dunedin, ' made 96. In a match, No. I Company v. Scl--1 kirk, our men made (51G against the Scotch team's 507. For No-1, Stewart uiado the remarkably fine score of 74 out of a possible 81. Good washings up are reported from Kawarau and Moke Creek. The anti-Centralist League oppose Mr Keynolds at Port Chalmers. Hokitika, Thursday. Arrived— Eingarooma, from Melbourne. She brings no later English news. Jn the Victorian Assembly the want-of-eonfidenco motion in the M'Culloch Ministry was negatived by a majority of 15. CnnTSTCHURCir, Thursday. Slade's hotel had a narrow escape from fire to-day, owing to a leakage of gas accidentally catching fire. A committee was appointed last night to make arrangements for the annual cricket match with Otago. A serious case of stabbing occurred in front of the Theatre last night, shortly after ten o'clock. A man named Theodore Arnold went into the private bar at Beatty's hotel, where a gentleman named Arthur Faithful was having a drink with a friend, and asked him to go outside. Faithful did so, but no sooner had he reached the pavement than Arnold seized him by the throat with the left hand, at the same time striking at him with the right, in which he held a knife, and saying—" I'll do for you now." A scuffle ensued, during which Constable Hughes, who had witnessed the occur rence, threw his arms around Arnold while Sergeant Wilson, who was also near at hand, seized Arnold's right arm, when the knife dropped to the ground. While being secured, Arnold said he had intended to do for Faithful, and had been waiting several days to " pot him." The wounds Faithful sustained, happily, had not a very dangerous appearance, two of the wounds were on the left jaw, and one was not far from being serious- The knife appeared to have entered near the end of the jaw and to have come out in the neck, within a hair's breadth of the main artery. A third wound was in the body, immediately under the lower left rib, and about an inch in depth. After being arrested, Arnold said that he was sorry he had missed Faithful's heart, but that his hand was unsteady owing to the fact that he had been drinking during the past two or three days. He also stated that his reason for stabbing Faithful was that the latter had robbed a man in his presence, in Lyttelton, and then charged him (Arnold) with it. They were both passengers by the ship Laugston, which arrived from London a fevv daya ago. Arnold was quite sober when arrested. The knife, which originally belonged to Faithful, is a murderous looking weapon. The blade is about eight inches long, and tapers from about an inch and a half at the haft to a point which is very sharp- It is of Spanish make, and is such a knife as is generally used in South America for killing and skinning sheep. Arnold was brought up at the Magistrate's Court this morning, but as Faithful was not fit to appear, Arnold was remanded till 30th December. Arnold is a young man, and has a respectable and quiet appearance. Mr Rolleßton has been re-elected, without opposition, for Avon.