Telegraphic.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume IV, Issue 328, 30 October 1875, Page 3

Telegraphic.

(fKOSI OUtt OWN OOREE9POWDENT.) Auckland, Friday evening. Messrs Barnett and Levy accepted Mr Rhodes’s tender for building the theatre block, which costs about £7,000.

Charles HigginS, alias Cheap Jack, was fined £25 for smuggling jewellery. McCleary, a settler at Paparoa, was crushed by a tree which he was felling. Tie was brought into the Tlos. pital with a leg broken and an arm wrenched off. He died an hour after operation. The Bachelors’ Ball on Wednesday was attended by 500.

Captain Logan, oJ the Hero, attacks Mr Eoynokls, Commissioner of Customs, in a letter to the Star on tho subject of tho recent fine of £l5O on the Hero.

The Kaipara ’Railway was opened on Thursday. No swells were present, and only about 150 of’the public. Mr Passmore did the necessary. Eogular trains now run between Helensville and Eiverhead. ' A little daughter of Constable McGrath fell down a well and was drowned. *

Attempted Suicide. PEH PRESS AGENCY. Auckland, Friday evening. Mr Buckland reports: Fat cattle, 35s to 37s per 1001 b ; wethers, fatted, 3Jd to 3Jd, about a shilling a head lower. A woman named Heath, an immigrant, by the British Empire, tied her child on her back and jumped from tho wharf into the harbor, but was rescued. It is believed the cause was unhappiness with tho man she is living with nominally as her husband. The child of the woman who jumped from the wharf yesterday has died. The mother is believed to be insane ; sbo lies dangerously ill. Arrived: German war steamer Gazelle. Captain Logan has written a long reply to the Commissioner of Custom’s letter regarding the fine on the steamship Here. He asks why now that the Customs Officer and Surveyor acknowledge error in measurement in consequence of which the fine was imposed, the Government do not also acknowledge the wrong done him and restore the amount ? Sailed : Mikado, for Sail Francisco, with the English mail PER PRESS AGENCY. Dunedin, Friday evening. The fourth half-yearly report of the National Insurance Company shows that the total receipts for the half-year,

including £2,000 from previous balance, amount to £42,738; the expenditure for the same period is £23,576, leaving for distribution £19,161, which is proposed to appropriate as follows :—Reserve fund £5.000 (which will then make the reserve £35,000), a dividend of 15 per cent, per annum (3,750), and carried forward to next half-year £10,411. The company is interested in the Str.atlimore to the extent of £4,800, which is not provided for in the present balance sheet.

At the Drainage Machine competition at Milton yesterday, Read and Grey took the first prize of £IOO, no second prize was awarded. The four Superintendents were present at the luncheon after the competition. Sir George Grey spoke at length against Abolition, and paid a high, tribute of praise to Air Murray, M.11.R. Sir George speaks at Clutha to-night at Thomson’s banquet. Sir George Grey delivers a lecture on Tuesday next in one of our large halls in aid of All Saints’ Church fund. He does not leave here till Wednesday on that account.

Arrival of the Hero.

[per press agency.] Auckland, Thursday. The Hero has arrived from Sydney after a very - rough passage. Heavy seas shipped end considerable damage done. The second mate was washed overboard. Capialn Lou’-n was badly bruised, and several of the crew crippled. The ship arrived in a very disabled condition. London, ! etcher 16, . Foreign exchanges money favorable, but stock market without recovery. A South Australian four per cent. Loan has been announced at a minimum of 93. New Zealand wheat is quoted at 51s to 535; Australian, 52s to 545. The moil via San Francisco is delivered in London. The land telegraph line has been interrupted sirco Monday.

The Arctic Expedition. Auckland. Thursday afternoon. The Mikado has arrived from Sydney. London. October 19. . The British Arctic Expedition arrived at Carey’s Island on July 27, and left immedi-delv for smith’s Sound. The season is described as verv open, ami there is every prospect of reaching a high latitude. Tho expedition is stated to be all well. A French note sent to Turkey protests against the latter’s default in payment of coupons. A cablegram from Sir Daniel Cooper ann winces the death of Sir Charles Cooper, Agent-General of New South Wales.