FRIDAY.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XII, Issue 13, 18 July 1884, Page 11

FRIDAY.

At a meeting of the North Creek Mining Company held at Christchurch last evenins it was reported that a trial crushing of 70lb of stone from the Upper Wilberforce reefs, made at Wellington, had realised at the rate of s}oz. of pure gold to the ton. The directors were empowered to raise the necessary capital for working the reef A telegram from Ohinemutu on Wednesday morning says that Constable Abrahams arrested a Native named Mehana, a lunatic, for having murdere I a Native woman named Te Tnkemata at Te Nga yesterday afternoon. The body was afterwards buried, but the constable had it exbumed, and an inquest will be held. Tha murderer had been at one time in the asylum. On being questioned, the reason he gives is that a spirit told him to kill the womanf S ' e P?, are being taken at Naseby to form a company to work the Bough Kidge reefs. It is cause of wouder that these reefs have not been worked, as scores are lying exposed. In the House of Lords on Wednesday night the Bill for the reform of the franchise was, on the motion for the second reading rejected by 205 to 146. °' The latest accounts to hand from Marseilles show that the cholera is increasing m that district, three deaths from the disease havinc occurred at Axe, a town 1C miles off. Arrests have been made at Trieste of persons who it is alleged attempted to injmc the Emperor of Austria during a recent railway journey. ° J Intelligence is to hand from Korosko and Wady Haifa that the fortifications at those places are proceeding vigorously "in view of a possible advance of the rebels. The Pali Mall Gazette states that a se=ret treaty has been entered into between France and Portugal.