INTERPROVINCIAL TELEGRAMS.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 245, 22 November 1878, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL TELEGRAMS.

[PER PRESS AGENCY.! Auckland, Nov. 21

The following were passengers from London to Lyttelton by the Piako :— Saloon — Mr A. R. Shera, J. T. Buchanan, Miss Singely, also 300 immigrants. Messrs Conyers and Lawson to-day visited the Kaipara railway to decide upon the proposed alternate routes. They met the Harbor Board on Monday to confer respecting the harbor reclamation for the Queen street railway sta-

Quantities of inferior kerosene aie being sold, and accidents are frequent.

At the annual Wesleyan meeting to-day, additional agents were recommended for Maori districts.

Grahamstown, Nov. 21

The Premier and the Minister of Public Works have been communicated with by the local authorities, asking that Messrs Conyers and Lawson be instructed to visit the Thames, to take steps to procure a survey of the Thames Valley line. The Premier says fie goes to Kawan for rest, and quiet, and hopes Mr Macandrew will attend to their request. -Wellington, Nov. 21.

Market quotations—Flour, Adelaide, £17 ; colonial, £10 los to £11 ; oats, 4s 8d ; hams, 9d ; bacon, 8d ; cheese, 7d ; potatoes, old, £3 10s ; new, £11; butter, lOd. W. Teschemaker, M.H.R., died here to-day from typh»id fever. C. T. Batkin, of the Treasury, has been appointed assistant controller and auditor, while Mr Gavin takes Mr Batkin's place as accountant of the Treasury ; Hum wood is made accountant under the Land Tax department, of which Sperry is chief commissioner. McLean, assistant-auditor, is appointed to sub-commissjonership f of., Auckland ; .Watson, Gbrerrinient auctioneer here,

appointed auh-commissioner of Otago ; \ Mackay, Commissioner of Native Reserves, appointed sub-commissioner at , Nelson. The valuation niyte?* the -'Land Tax will begin earl* .in Bee'eftiber. It is understood it *w|fi/be ready for,enforcement In January. , ■--AA .. ! Intlje App-kl (Cb'iirt the -demurrer in | the carfe i>f -f3Ct»l_fc |* mid, Macarthy was argued. Mr -anti Mr Edwards appearing for\nl&tn-tiff_; ami. the Attor-ney-General and Mr Chapman for defendant. Tlie proprietor of the Poverty Bay Herald copied Press Agency telegrams from another paper without | payment, and an action for an injunction : was commenced by plaintiffs. Defendant demurred on the ground that there was no copyright at common la,w, an,d that there was "W*;*sgfecfial statvjte restricting the rignt of publication in New Zealand. Mr Travers contended that the question of copyright did not arise, and if there was no- statute in New Zealand the common Jay? .operated,, and plaintiffs had a right lof property in these telegrams just as a- merchant had a right- of property in his merchandize. The Court took tijpe to consider.Jts decision. j£. X . . '"'. .' ; Tho Resident 30|*iStrate, in giving judgment in the case of the wreck of the City of Auckland, after quoting the Act under which the enquiry was held, stated that, as the Assessors appointed to enquire into 1 the case with him w£re not agreed, it devolved upon him to give an independent judgment. Having carefully gone over the evidence taken and considered the entries in the official and ship's logs, and having'conferred with the Assessors, he was of opinion the loss of the City of Auckland was caused by the master having laid off the position of the ship incorrectly on the chart, such error having arisen through his having inadvertently pricked his distance from longitude instead of latitude, making a variance of 14 or 15 miles, and having overrun his distance through not knowing the |rate the vessel was going, probably arising from imperfect or incorrect information on the Admiralty chart, therefore causing him to mistake Kapiti for Stephenson's Island. He was not prepared to say that he had acted in such a culpable manner as to justify tbe suspension of his certificate. There was nothing in the conduct of either of the officers of the ship requiring the slightest censure, and all the certificates would be returned.

Timaru, Nov. 21

The sea is gradually scouring the beach and reclaimed land north of the Mole. The contractors for the first part of the breakwater, have put a lot of hands on filling bags with shingle and laying them along its front to break the fore of the sea.

The fire in Geraldine bush is -still burning, and gradually approaching the township. No correct estimate can yet be made of the loss. Whitaker, Barker, Pos-fclethwaite, M'Kenzie, Martiß, and Gibson have suffered, and besides the loss of government bush, a large quantity of stacked firewood has been consumed.

The I'lmai-u Herald announces that it will shortly reduce the jprice bf the paper to twopence, and' be enlarged.