TELEGRAMS.

Globe, Volume I, Issue 11, 12 June 1874, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(Per" Ahjlo-Australian Press Telegraph Agency.) Auckland, Jane 11.

Sales : Caledonian, £lO 5s ; City of London, 26s ;Bird in the Hand, 30s 6d ; Queen of May, 13s. Buyers : Bank New Zealand, £l7-l6s; Caledonians, £lO 2s 6d ; Whan, Mi Iff 6d £3 ss. Sellers : National Insurance, 30s 6d. Naysor's Settler's Hotel. Wangarei, has been burned. Tt was insured for £SOO in the fioyalfand £3OO in the Imperial. Gbahamstown, June 11.

The drainage of mines agitations are on again. The Pumping Association is suing in Warden's Court for contributions from mines alleged to be benefitted- The first case called was against the City of London. The Pumping Association claims ,that their works drain the whole flat as well as'the hills. The Bright Smile Company claim a contribution from the claims joining it, and contend that they only drain the Waiokaraka mines. The consequence Js ftihatLthe; Association and Bright Smile are both claiming contributions from the same mines. Nearly all the legal talent in Auckland and the Thames are engaged on these casts.-: ■■;'.'■ " T -.l ' *'' '<■'■

DUNEBIN, June 11.

• A large fire has occurred in Stafford street, being, the most destructive for years past. It started in Mr G. F. Eeid's store. The origin is unknown. The goods of the MosI giel Woollen: Factory were on the same prej mises. The insurance oh the Mosgiel factory goods, is:£2ooo in the New Zealand Company, and £IOOO in the Standard. Mr Reid's insurance, is £SOOO, in the New Zealand, £IOOO 'in the' South' British, and £IOOO in the Standard. There was great excitement. The brigade worked well. Numbers of buildings 1 were threatened with destruction.

Twenty thousand of the New Colonial Bank-shares have been placed in Orago and Southland alone. ' j J Port Chalmers, June 11."

Sailed—Phoebe for Lyttelton at 4 p.m. Two more children have died on board the Atrato, and were buried in the quarantine cemetery.

THIS DATS TELEGRAMS,

Wellington, June 12,

The Albion only arrived at five this morning, the weather having been thick and stormy. It was too rough for her to come alongside the wharf. She lost one anchor. The Opera Company are taking remarkably well. The last two nights they have had good houses, though the weather has been very inclement. The ''Times" after reviewing the circumstances of the late wrecks at Wellington, urges the necessity of a tug service, and says Wellington is the only important port in Australasia at which in the' early days of its shipping, Government did not either wholly or partially provide tug service. Flour, Oamaru, £l3 to £l3 3s 6d ; Canterbury, £l2 to £l2 10s; wheat, 3s 9d ; chick c ats, 4s 5d to 4s 7d ; pollard, 7s 6d ; bran 1» 5d per bushel ; potatoes, 90s to 100 s; salt butter, Is l£d ; cheese, 7|d ; maize, 7s to 7s 6d ; pearl barley, £22 10s. Auckland, June 12.

A diabolical attempt to burn down the fine fine block of brick buildings, called Hobson's buildings, in Shortland stieet, was discovered last night. A man was observed to strike a match and light something under a doorway and then run away. On examination there was found a quantity of paper and kerosene in a blaze. The culprit is unknown. It is believed that other fires lately were acts of incendarism. Fat cattle 21s 6d to 32s per 100. Fat sheep, 33s 4d. .Store sheep offered freely. Dairy cows, £1) to £l2 10s. Hokitika, June 12.

The lease of the Brunner coalmine at Grey has changed, hands, the Greymouth Company having bought Hughes and McCarthy's full interest in the lease, with plant, and rolling stock; also their prospecting; license, and Mount Rochefort in the Buller district.