TELEGRAMS.

Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1203, 4 December 1882, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(from our own correspondent.) Dunbdin, December 1. The Resident Magistrate's Court House at Balclutha is stated to have been densely packed on Wednesday with attendants. A yonng man named McNeil was charged by Miss Chereside with having shot at her with intent to kill. It was expected that the evidence taken would have revealed some very interesting features, but the case was withdrawn without any evidence being taken, and what was better, the respective parties acting under, their counsel's advice, adjourned to the nearest Registrar's office, and were made one before they were 20 minutes out of the Court. At the Balclutha police court on Wednesday William Wilson was committed for trial atDunedin for indecently assaulting Mrs Trada at Waelepa. From the evidence of the prosecutrix it appeared that the accused called at her residence and asked for some food. She supplied him with soup, and after he had partaken thereof he attempted to throw her down, but she escaped and soon afterwards informed her husband of what had happened. He followed the accused and overtook him some distance on the road. George Fraser, ofPueruar, has been charged at \Balolath» with arson, and was admitted to bail, himself in £600 and two sureties of £150 each. The accused's store was burned down on the 12th ult, and the jury returned a verdict of arson againßt some person unknown.

At '2 this morning a fire broke out at she Milton Pottery, and by 3 the greater part of the works were destroyed* , Auckland 1. Mr Edwin Smith, chief of the United States Transit of Venus Party here, has recovered from his severe indisposition. \rrangements for observing, the transit are well forward and neatly all completed. December 2. Iv the Auckland papers Slade, the wrestler, challenges any man in the Colony to a wrestling matcßfor £200>. side. The temperature is exceptionally mgn in the district at present, and rain is much wanted in the back country*. In some parts there has been no rain since August. Fwmhng, LSuspicious circumstances are transpiring re the burning of the Cheltinham sawmills, and the New Zealand Insurance Co. offer a reward of £60. Detective Benjaraen is now on the round. CHBISTCBtmCB, 1. A child named Amy Richards, aged 2$ years, residing at Woo^end, has been missing since Tuesday', imder somewhat suspicious circumstances. A large party was out all the day, but up to a late hour had no tidings further than finding her hit, which had something on it resembling blood. It was handed to Professor Bickerton for microscopic examination. Two of her sis+era were with the. child on Tuesday, and lift her with her father, who returned homo without her, and appeared unconcerned when questioned as to her whereabouts. He, however, assisted in the search for her on Tuesday and to-day. WsCLTWaTOW, 1. Hall, the comedian, las issued a writ against his late partner, . Willmott, who left yesterday with a company on a tour to the West Coast towns, including Reefton, for false imprisonment and wrongful arrest. - In consequence of the number of persons lately absconding from the colony by the Frisco mail bo*ts, special prevention- arrangements aw being made by the detective department