NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3027, 17 January 1879, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

MAIL STEAMER BROKE DOWN. Auckland, January 17. The mail steamer has been detained teu days, owing to the breaking of the crank pin, and which is buing repaired by Eraser and Titme. The Wakatipu has been ordered to take the mails and passengers for Sydney. ENGLISH SHIP ARRIVED. Tho Marival has arrived from London with 350 immigrants. ROBBERY AT MANUKAU HEADS. James Feunell was committed for trial for stealing £30 from John Allen, Manukau Heads. ' MAN DROWNED. A rain natned James Littlechild was drowned at Riverhead. MAN KILLED AT TE ARARI. John Penman, the owner of the Te Arari saw-mill, was killed by being struck with a plank. VALUATION OF THE CITY OF WELLINGTON. ' Wellington, January IG. Tho City Municipal valuation this year is £211,809, as against £207,605 last year. ARRIVAL OP H.M.S., NYMPH. H.M.S. Nymph has arrived. She lost a man overboard in a gale ou her way from Sydney. ANOTHER CASE OF FORGERY. $dgar Bastings, son of Mr. Horace Bastings, M.H.R., lately a stationmaster at Waihola, has just been arrested here, on a telegram from Christchurch on a chargo of forging a cheque for £7 55., purporting to be signed by the General Mauager of Railways, and given to Henry Allen, a publicau of Christchurch. Bastings was arrested on landing from the Wakatipn. HIGHER EDUCATION COMMISSION, i Wellington, January 17. Mr.O'Rorke is appointed Chairman of the Higher Education Commission. A STORMY MEETING. After a long and stormy discussion, the .City Council negatived tho motion appointing Climio the drainage engineer. The members then began to talk against time, and continued till near daylight- without arriving at any conclusion. EARTHQUAKE AT NAPIER. Napier, January 16. Tho severest shock of earthquake felt for a long time occurred last night at 10.45.

HALE OF LAND AT GISBORNE. , GISBORNR, January IG. i At the sale of Captain ' Reeds pro- ' perty, the suburban allotment facing- ■ Gladstone Road, folcbod JB-jO per aero. This is lower than the price- ruling some months ago. Lot No. 1, near Reed's Gully, fetched £1,400 ; Jtfakauri, (550 acres, £6,500 ; Willows, £3,500. Lot 11 brought £1,850. FLOODS IN CHRISTCHURCH. CiißisrCHUKCii, January ] 7. The damag-e by-floods to the railway is all repaired. HARVESTS IN CANTERBURY. The general average of crops is good. CHILD DRANK HALF A BOTTLE OF | BRANDY. Oamvru, January 10. A liltle child named Bissett died suddenly tliis mopoiug-. It. had got up early, and*drauk half a bottle of brandy, and it was not discovered till too late to apply remedies. MATAURA ELECTION. Tnvercargill, January 16. There was considerable excitement yesterday over the Mataura election. Last night A lie result was known of all the places excopfc the distant polling booths at Portrose, but the number of electors there were small, so the result could not be affected. All the returns are now in. Totals— Shanks, 309 ; Kinross, 250. Both candidates were thorough supporters of the present Ministry. MORE RAILWAY OPENINGS. Another railway opening on Weduesday next. ACCIDENT AT OUTRAJI. Dunedlv, January IG. Robert McGregor, a carter, was killed near Outran* last evening, by tho upsetting or his dray. A DRUNKEN CASE. At the Police Court this morning 1 , a respectable looking wav named Byrne, who was found after midnight on the broad of his back opposite the old Knox Church, and was Jooked-up for drunkenness, protested so emphatically that he vaas quite sober that two first-class sergeants aud a lock-ap keeper had to be sent for to convince him to the contrary. Thov failed to do so, but the indignant accuse. l was convicted and fined notwithstanding-. A BRASS NUGGET. Yesterday, a well-known street loafer, who earns his living with the aid of a crutch, contrived to palm off a brass nugget on a working jeweller for gold, and received three pounds for it. The nugget, which was a beautiful imitation, had been stolen from a dwelling ou Sunday last.

WALSH'S SENTENCE.

The Daily Times and Herald uuite in condemning' the Cabinet for recommending' the commutation of the .sentence of Walsh, tho murderer.