BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Evening Star, Issue 4124, 16 May 1876, Page 3

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Auckland, May 15, At the ‘ Daily Southern Cross ’ Company meeting the report showed that the business appearing on the books left a balance of L 554 over expenditure. The Bank overdraft was L 282. IN o dividend was declared.

At the meeting of the Fiji Banking Company the shareholders expressed the opinion that the terms offered by the Bank of In' ew Zealand to buy at par were to the advantage of the purchaser. It was resolved that the company be wound up, but that the directors should endeavor to get the Bank of New Zealand to increase the purchase money by allowing interest on the capital. The City Council has given the Mayor power to draft a measure for the approaching Parliament to enable the Corporation to erect slaughter houses. The Mayor said it was proposed to introduce a Bill for the Colony having this and other objects in view.

Wellington, May 15. Dr Knight retires on his pension, and Under-Secretary Cooper succeeds him as Commissioner of Audit. Considerable speculation exists as to who is to be Undersecretary. The Government say they have not yet made any selection, but a good many people expect that Mr Gisborne is likely to return to his old office, as it is understood ihat he has abandoned the idea of going Home.

Messrs Bates and Howard have leased the Theatre Royal for six months from the end of Simonsen’s opera season. Morris Lyon Marks, draper, has filed a declaration of insolvency.

May 16. The promotei’s of the Rangitoto Silver Mining Company now here have been very successful in disposing of the shares allotted to Wellington.

Christchurch, May 16. Simonsen’s Opera Company performed Offenbach’s opera bouffe, “La Perichole,” last night for the first time in New Zealand. It was a great hit.

Hokitika, May 1(5, Mr Marton has returned from inspecting the Mount Kangitoto silver mine. He states that there is a well-defined lode of argentiferous galena and pyrites about three feet in width, and widening as it goes into both sides of the hill.

{From our own Correspondent.) Lawrence, May 16. The land fever is still unabated. A large number of applications were lodged for the block opened under the agricultural lease system in the Crookston district yesterday. A flood in the Molyneux has done a large amount of damage to miners’ property. Owing to the alteration in the coaches’ time letters do not arrive here from Dunedin until 5 p.m.