BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Evening Star, Issue 4112, 2 May 1876, Page 3

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Wellington, May 1. The plasterers, who have been out on strike some time, held a conference with contractors, and resolved amongst themselves to resume work at the old rate, 11s per day.

May 2. Tbe annual general meeting of the Titanic Steel and Iron Company was held last night. Considerable discussion ensued, a portion of it being -of a rather personal and animated character. The chairman proposed, out of consideration for the interests of the Dunedin shareholders, that the meeting should be adjourned for a month so as to allow shareholders resident in other parts of the Colony to be present. An amendment was proposed that the business be proceeded with at once. Mr Chew said the directors and shareholders had been misled from tbe first, and he believed the longer the company was carried on the worse it would be for the shareholders. The Chairman said it was remark able how differently Mr Chow spoke when asjjnanager he was drawing L3OO a-year

from the shareholders. The original resolution was carried, and the meeting adjourned for a month,

Oeeyivioutit, May 1. The Wealth of Nations Company, llcefton, for seven weeks’ crushing, got 7350z. (idwts. of retorted gold. A dividend has been declared of 3s per scrip.

Auckland, May 1. The new assessment of the city property amounts to L 137,000, shoving an increase in value of L 12,000 over that of last year. A boy named King, eleven years old, has been sent to tho training-ship for three years for indecent assault.

Chsktchckce, May 2. _My W. M. Haskell has resigned the Provincial Secretaryship, in order to accept the appointment of Registrar of the New Zealand University, the salaxy attached to which is L4OO a year. The first season for cock-pheasa?it shooting commenced yesterday, when good sport was obtained, though the birds are not so numerous as was generally expected.

{From our own Correspondent.) Napiek, May 1. It is rumored that Mr Brookfield, Crown Prosecutor of Auckland, will bo appointed Resilient Magistrate in the room of Mr Sealy, the latter retiring on pension. Mr Brookfield will also be. appointed Distinct Judge. The proposed change will not take place until after the meeting of Parliament. A telegram from Taurauga says that an information has been laid by a man named Joseph Highley against Captain Reid himself, on the ground that through his agent, Major Pitt, he gave certain monies to Horsingati, in order to induce him to procure votes for Captain Reid during ,the East Coast election. An affidavit has likewise been ’sworn to by ST, I W. Henshaw, to the efiect that Major Pitt was Captain Reid’s accredited agent.