YESTERDAY’S LATE TELEGRAMS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1529, 1 May 1885, Page 3

YESTERDAY’S LATE TELEGRAMS.

Auckland The Government has ordered 1,600 tons of Bay of Islands coal for delivery here, 1 OCO tons to be stored near Penrose railway station, and 600 in the hulks. The annual meeting of the Auckland Tobacco Company lapsed for want of a quorum., The report states that the profits on sales, though considerable, had been more than eaten up by salaries, wages, and commissions. Retrenchment in wages, etc., it was hoped, would reduce the debit balance in future. At the half-yearly meeting of the New Zealand Sugar Company Limited, a credit balance of profit and loss was carried to new account. Tho Hon James Williamson was re-elected Director.

Wellington. It is raining heavily, with every appearand of continuing over to-morrow, in which case it will seriously interfere with the races. The election of Sir James Prendergast, 8.A., and Charles Henry Herbert Cooke, M. A., to be fellows of the New Zealand University, has been approved by His Excellency. Kumara. Alexander Angus, a miner, of Greenstone, on Tuesday fell off a siding into Black Water Creek, and was drowned. Invercargill. At a meeting of the Lands Board today Mr A. Tapper requested to bo put under the mw regulations, or to be allowed to stop bis mills until they came into force, and applied to have a return made showing the amount of royalty paid per acre by the sawmillers throughout the Southland district, which he maintained would prove that he baa paid royalty on more timber than was looked upon as the' average per acre. Mr Tapper was ordered by the Board last week to pay a large snm as royalty abort accounted for. Bis application was refused, as the new regulations (to charge by the acre for the right to out timber) are 1 not yet sanctioned by the Governor.