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Tuapeka Times, Volume VII, Issue 373, 15 July 1874, Page 6

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VkinfcnioK, July 4. According to the report of a Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the sickness on board the Mongol, it was clearly shown that several cases of scarlet fever and measles occurred while the emigrants were in the Imperial depot at Plymouth ; also that the depdt was overcrowded and ill-ventilated, that the medical officer of the depdt neglected his duty, and that the snip's surgeon should not have gome to sea with such sickness. Ihere was no regular inspection of emigrants prior to the embarkation, and that, when disease broke out in the marriedgcompartmentß forward, the surgeon neglected to adopt those precautionary measures which had succeeded in checking the eu'sease at an earlier period of the voyage ia other parts of the ship. A proper supply of provisions and medical comforts was not put on board, while the provisions for the young children were useless during the greater portion of the voyage. The medical comforts were so carelessly used v to become exhausted before haft of the voyage was over. The surgeon is blamed for not insisting that j the immigrants should have a proper supply of water. The captain is severely blamed fqr allowing the supply to become exjymsted lor several hours 1 in mid -ocean witlT epidemic disease on board. The Commissioners say, "The supply of children's rations was calculated on a wrong basis, although probably actevrding to the scale required by the charter. No provision was made for the excessive number of children, they being in proportion to adults." They think that children's rations . should not be calculated as per {^tute adult, " but according to the numbers and requirements of the children on board. Wellington, July 6. Alexander M'Donald, an adopted member of ' a Native tribe at Manawatu, who stopped Her Majesty's mail by shooting a horse of Young's, the mail contractor,, was arraigned at the Supreme Court to-day. He pleaded guilty, but urged in extenuation that, owing to the dissatisfaction of the Natives, he only committed the offence to prevent something worse being done. Mr Travers, his counsel, offered no defence. ' Tiff) Judge intimated that the offence was ~ punishable with fourteen yeare' imprisonment, DUt reserved judgment, owing to the importamce of the case, and to obtain more evidence if possible. July 7. It is stated, upon good authority, that a deputation of members has waited upon the Premier regarding the duration of the Sossion. In reply he. gave them to understand that, as far as was possible to determine at present, the Session would not exceed two months. ?4 , Auckland, July 4. *"* 5 ' Dissatisfaction is caused through the nonreoeipt of a writ for the Waitemata District, although gazetted vacant on the 12th of June. The year's Customs revenue is H90.464. Gbahamstgwn, July 4. The Borough Council have despatched a petition for presentation to the Assembly praying for additional representation for the Thames. The petition is about a chain in length, and ontains nearly 2,000 signatures. Gbahamstown, July 6. The ' Advertiser' gives the gold returns for the, month at 10, 6320z, being an increase of i 3,2230z on last month. The Manukau Company has lodged the first instalment from the specimen crushing, amounting to 5590z. Napier, July 6 The Provincial Council was prorogued on Saturday night. It passed the Representation Bill, increasing the number of members to twenty, and dividing the town of Napier into five divisions, with six members. It also passed the Appropriation Bill, appropriating L 93.012. The Criminal Session of the Supreme Court opened to-day. There was a light calendar. The operative masons have struck work because of the reduction of wages from 12s to lls per day. Grahamstown, July 7. The Vulcan G. M. Co.'s battery and mine, with all appliances, were sold under a distress ■ warrant to-day for Ll2O. The plant cost about L 3.000. Christohurch, July 7. At the Supreme Court, the Judge, in his charge to the jury, referred to the desirability of legislative action being taken in making the inmates of an inebriate ward in a lunatic asylum work, as being more conducive to the restoration of bodily and mental vigor thar idling about. John Wilmshurst, surgeon-superintendent of the ship Isles of the South, for larceny as a bailee of medical comforts, was sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment ; and William Wood, for forgerj and uttering, to five years'. An indictment against Robert Quick, alias Patrick Quin, of manslaughter, was thrown out. Qver 2,000 shares in the Colonial Bank were applied for here during yesterday. The members of the Kaiapoi Public Library have decided, by thirty-eight to thirty seven . votes, to open the public library and readmgroom from five to seven on Sunday afternoons. The Christchurch City Council decided last night to apply to the General Assembly for a Bill for the endowment of the city with the proceeds of the Dog Tax, and Auctioneers' and Publicans' Licenses collected within the boundary of the City. Auckland, July 7. At the Supreme Court criminal sittings, George Smyth, fqr larceny as a bailee, was sen : tenced to twelve months' imprisonment. The Grand Jury, after twelve hours' deliberation, returned a true bill against Alexander, Brown, for incendiarism.' John Hawkins, convicted of specimen stealing at lastf 'session of the Supreme ■ Court, whose case was submitted to the Court - of Appeal for settlement of certain points of law reserved, was brought up for judgment. The verdict was fully affirmed by the higher Court. The prisoner was sentenced to eight years' penal servitude. John Judge, for an unnatural offence, was sentenced to five years.Henry Arnutt DigHy, for larceny, to three years' hard labor; Henry^Brody, for housebreaking, twelve months ; Edward Jones, for . embezzlement, two years ; Felix Seymour, formerly clerk to Fraser and Tinne, five years ; ■ Charles Weathered], naliciens injury to pro r . ferty, six months; Heta, a Maori, for horsestealing at Hikuti, two years' penal servitude ; William John Stone, for a nameless offence, five years 1 penal servitude. Wellington, July 8. . Tht schooner Dauntless has arrived from N»w ; Caledonia, and reports that the schooner Mary - Stewart is a total wreck at New Hebrides. The crew were picked, up in an open boat at sea and taken to Noumea. ■ l Admiral Ribout has arrived ; at Noumea from France to inquire into the escape of Rochefort. AH the Communists will be removed to the Island of Pines and another island, to be Selected. . - - * , Bateraan has been sent to France to fulfil his term of imprisonment. The cpnvict excutioner was murdered by one of the convicts on June 20, and the murderer was afterwards gnillotin d. Duels are very prevalent ; three took place on June 2fi ; one being: between St. Devarenne and Guiltemairc,'of the Gens-d'armes," on which the latter was lolled. Permission was given them to .fight by tbe Governor, who attended the , funeral, and addressed the soldiers upon the duty of upholding their honor, even at the cost eflife. J . . / . QUEENSTOWN, July 8. The news is confrmed that Grace's party has got payable ground at the Shotover Company's r claim near, the encroachment upon Eager's . daim. The Arrow United Company has also got.,capita]. prospects.' , >> The miners are indifferent about the Gold Duty Repeal Ordinance. . „ j Auckland, July 8. ; The schooner Papua has arrived from Raro- ■ tenga. Her master reports the total wreck of the schooner Tamner at the Islands. > ' The schooner Herald has arrived from Fiji^ - ■ and brings newß to Juiie -28,'. but it is unimportant. ■ The , Government troops -achieved . another victory over -the mountaineers of Viti Levu. . Eighty of the.enemy were killed. , , ' . Wellington, July 9.. Five publicans were fined L 5 each this.morn- ' ing for selling liquor on Sunday. , -■ , The '.PMtV assertion that Mr Tbos. Bussell is likely to be called to the Council, as 8/ • reward for his services: in oomnectiom with the snail services; Js correct.! but the: giving him the portfolio of the Postmsster General i* proJblematicaL < > .....■.■■,-'

_ LttsP»wo», July 0. The state ef the Northampton's immigrants at the" quarantine stations at Camp Bay and Xtipa Island is kept private. Wellington,' July 10. His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to assent to the Otago Harbor Board Ordinance, 1874. The Imprest Supply Act has been left to its operation. Areowtown, July 10. Heavy rain has fallen for many Hours, causing unusually high floods on the Arrow and" Shotover, which will Btop the claims from working for some tima. The Arrow United Company works have escaped damage at present. Chbistchuboh, July 10. At a meeting of the Board of Governors of - the Canterbury College, Mr Ingles moved, " That the Museum be opened three hours on Christmas Day and Good Friday." The motion was strongly opposed by the Church party, and was ultimately withdrawn. The Canterbury Chamber of Commerce have requested Mr Montgomery, M.H.R., t» introduce a new Insolvency Bill into the Assembly, the main, features of which are identical with the one thrown out last session. . Auckland, July 11. A man named Chas Dyer has been brought down from^Pukiri, charped with the murder of Eliza Battersea, a woman he 'was living with. Jealousy is supposed to be the cause, and they were constantly quarrelling. It is alleged, that on last Wednesday Dyer beat her in a brutal manner, then poured kerosene on her clothes, set fire to them, wrapned a sack round her, carried her to the river, and threw her in. ■ A man named named Watson seeing her there lifted her out, with Dyer's assistance. All the hair was burned off her head, the clothes j burned down to her waist, and the whole of the upper part of the body half roasted. She lingered two days in great agony until she died. Dyer alleges that she spilled the kerosene over herself, and it accidentally ignited. Dr Blackall, chief.officer of the barque Pet, has died from fracture of the skull, caused by an accident when on board his vessel.