SPECIAL TELEGRAMS

Waikato Times, Volume I, Issue 28, 4 July 1872, Page 2

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS

TO THE "WAIKATO TIMES." AUCKLAND. 3rd July, 6 p.m. Another person, named George Seymour, a waiter at the Thames Dining-rooms, has just been talc en to the hospital infected with small-pox. The cab in which he waa conveyed has been ordered by the Mayor to be taken off the stand. It is proposed to pull down the dining-rooms. The 'Tower Hill' has arrived from Warnambool with a cargo of potatoes. A meeting was held this afternoon for the purpose of forming a Company for the prosecution of a pearl fishery. Five hundred shares of ten pounds each is the • proposed capital. Langton has been sentenced to six years' penal servitude. A fire occurred at Greymouth last night. Four houses were destroyed; loss, .£7OO. The Governor arrived at Napier to-day. Tokatea crushing for the month yielded 1,376 ounces. TELEGRAPHIC From the Dally Southern. Cross. —. —t —-— WELLINGTON. Monday. The contract for the first eight miles of the Hutt railway has been signed by Mr. Brogden. The price, including the estimated cost of rolling-stock, is just within the Parliamentary limit of £5,000 per mile. In the Supreme Court to-day the Grand Jury ignored the bill against Alfred Knocks, charged with inciting to commit murder at Otaki. The case arose out of the alleged formation of a band of highwaymen. There were only two other unimportant criminal cases on the calendar. Arrived : ' Grace Darling,' from Adelaide, with flour. HOKITIKA. Monday. Cassius Claim, Ross, yielded 1560z. gold last week. It has averaged 160oz. per week lately. NAPIER. Monday. The representatives of the Arawas and one East Coast tribe are at Taupo on their way to attend a meeting which is to be held at Pakowhai to discuss the land and other questions. CHRISTCHURCH. Monday. A coroner's inquest was held upon the late Dr. Pearson, of Akaroa, who was found dead in the bush stark naked. A verdict of Death from exposure whilst temporarily insane, was returned. The Criminal Sessions of the Supreme Court have opened. The calendar is lengthy, but the offences are not very serious.

From the New Zealand Herald. WELLINGTON. Tuesday. One of the Armed Constabulary attending on Kaye, at Soame's Island has been attacked by small-pox. Dr. Bulmer has been sent to attend him. Kaye is convalescent. Carruthers (Engineer-in-Chief) officially estimates the railway traffic between Wellington and the Hutt at £5750 a year, on the j basis of the present traffic; and the working j expenses of the line, including renewals, at; £5,500. _ j It is rumoured that proposals are likely to j be made for the construction of a line from : Gieymouth, through the Reeffcon district to : connect with the Canterbury Great Northern j line. I

The Rev. J. Forest lias been appointed to administer to the Catholic doicese of Wellington, and has been presented by his congregation with a parse of 75 sovereigns and a watch by the pupils of St. Mary's School. Mr. Friberg, Scandinavian Immigration Agent, returns per ship Hodwigv Ho has been unsuccessful, owing to the Swedish Legislature having enacted that all emigration agents must deposit £5000, to beforfcited should hopes held out to emigrants not bo fulfilled. DUNEDIN. The verdict on the fire at McLeod and Go's, was, that there was no evidence to show how it originated. The " Times " suggests that the Otago and Canterbury cricketers should unite in asking the Melbourne Committee to make arrangements to enable the All-England Eleven to visit New Zealand. NAPIER. Matene, son of Tlapuku, and two other natives, pleaded guilty to boing participators in the riot at Clive, and were fined £5. The Napier arrived from Poverty Bay. She brings the intelligence that a servant of Captain Porter, named Sugar, has been committed for trial, for assaulting Mrs Hardy and a female servant, with intent to kill. Mrs Hardy is recovering. TAURANGA. Monday. The Southern Cross arrived on Sunday, at 4 p.m., and sailed for Opotiki to-day, at 5 p.m. Thick weather, with strong westerly gale.