A SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCE.

Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2744, 2 December 1871, Page 3

A SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCE.

{From the Kcenimj Post.) There was considerable animation on ’Change yesterday in Tookey stock, which rose from L3O to L4O during the day, and closed with an ’upward tendency. A number of well-known sp--dilators chartered the steamer 'Coiuerang, and left Auckland last evening, the destination being, it is reported, Sydney, to purchase Tookey stock. At one o’clock yesterday, Greville’s Telegram Company dispatched a message announcing the rise in the price of shares overland to Tauranga, and this will probably be in time to catcb the Claud Hamilton leaving the Bluff for Melbourne. Should it do so. the message will of course bo forwarded by the firm in Melbourne to their subscribers at Sydney and Ballarat, immediately upon receipt. If it' is therefore correct that the Comerang has gone on the mission stated, (hose interested will watch the result anxiously.— Cross, 2ls£. The Southern Cross of 22nd November, pematks On ’Change, yesterday, Tookey shares maintained the high figure they had reached the day previous. There arc, we are informed, a considerable number of share® owned by Auckland capitalists under offer in the Australian market, and it was as much to withdraw these as to take advantage of early information to purchase at low rates, that the Comerang was chartered, on Monday, to proceed to Sydney. It is stated that the Royal Alfred also was chartered, to convey a private telegram to the Tauranga station, for the purpo.-e of catching the Claud Hamilton at the Bluff, Oi e difficulty, however, stancs in the way of privacy and safety in such telegrams, unless placed in the hands of a private agent, as the New Zealand department -will not receive telegrams for transmission to any Australian town except through post, there being no arrangement between the telegraph departments of this and the neighboring Colonies, as Greville’s Telegram Company are the only accredited telegraphic agents in New Zealand for the whole of the Australian Goyevninents. With, regard tq the telegram sent' to the- Thames by Greville and Co., for transmission overland, last night’s Eneniuy Star states:—“We learn that some gentleman of local enterprise offered, on his own hook, L2O to the Greville’s messenger, to delay his journey. The message has nevertheless proceeded.” We are requested by Greville’s manager to state that the message above alluded to as having been sent to Tauranga, never reached him. The first intimation of the rise in Tnokeys was received in a telegram dated 23rd, Auckland via Nelson, by the s.s Wellington, and which arrived hereon Saturday morning. Yesterday another telegram, date! 22nd, Auckland, was received via Wanganui. This telegram announced the rise in Tookeys and the sailing of the Comerang. It appears, therefore, that there has been some foul play in the matter, and we are authorised to say that it will be thoroughly sifted. Greville’s manager has to-day forwarded to bis Auckland a'gent the following telegramNo telegram, re Tookeys reached me via Tauran:a. Make rigid enquiry lest ti ickery practised. Wi l criminally prosecute any party or parties concerned in wilfully burking our telegrams.”