TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Globe, Volume V, Issue 575, 22 April 1876, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

{Per Press Agency.') LATEST FROM AUSTRALIA. ♦ [By Submarine Cable, | Sydney, April 22. Sales of New Zealand wheat at 5s Id. ALL AGED STAKES. Brisies ... 1 Kingsborough 2 Valetta colt 3 Melbourne, April 22. The s.s. Alhambra has had to be decked, having a hole through one of her plates No steamer leaves till Monday. INTERPROVINCIAL. Auckland, April 21. The half-yearly meeting of the Bank of New Zealand was held to-day. The report showed a net profit on the 31st March of £58,440 12a 6d, giving, with premium on the new shares and balance from last quarter, £125,598 10s 8d available for division. Out of this a dividend of 10 per cent and a bonus of five per cent were declared. The sum of £70,000 was carried to reserve fund, and £6,848 ICs 8d carried over. The dividend and bonus are payable at the head office on Monday, the 24th of April, and at the branches on the receipt of advice. The report and balance sheet were unanimously adopted. A resolution was proposed altering the deed of settlement so as to admit of an urdimited extension of the reserve fund, and this was confirmed at a Special meeting held after the ordinary meeting. The Governor arrived from the Thames this morning, and visited the Commodore on board the Pearl. The yards were manned and a salute fired. Grahamsto'WN, April 21. Eleven fresh cases of scarlet fever are reported to-day. A special meeting of the Borough Board was held, and a resolution arrived at requesting the school com mitten of Ranwerangi district to close their boys’ school for two weeks, two assistant teachers iu tbe school having been down with scarlet fever since the Easter holidays commenced, and the master and mistress of the same school are residing in the same house with one of the patients. The Governor was well received both by the Europeans and natives at Ohinemuri, and an address presented by the hitter. Dr Pollen has been invited to a public dinner at the Thames, and the Mayor and MrW.Rowe, M.H.R , ha ve been depute d to convey the invitation, and request the Doctor to name the day. Napier, April 21. The congregation of St Paul’s Presbyterian Church has resolved to spend £SOO in the; purchase of an organ and repairing and decorating the building. Wellington, April 21. The directors of the Public Hall Company have refused to lease tbe theatre to Mr Bales at a £IOOO per year, paid quarterly, in advance. Over eighty persons left by the Albion today, cn routeiov the Palmer diggings. The plasterers employicl on the new Government Buildings have decided to hold out until they get I2s per day.

Nelson, April 21. The Fernglen, with immigrants, has arrived at the outer anchorage, and reports all well. Dunedin, April 21. At a meeting of the Council of the Acclimatisation Society it was agreed to request the Superintendent to proclaim a district at Palmerston open for coursing hares during May, June, and July; licence fee, 50s. It was also resolved to request the Superintendent to procure an amendment in the Protection of Animals Act extending the season for killing hares to six months, including March and August. It was agreed to request the Superintendent to proclaim June and July the open season for killing cock pheasants; the licence to be 30s; the same district aslastjcar. It was also determined to endeavor to obtain a provision in the Protection of Animals Act imposing a gun licence of JBI. It was stated that pheasants and hares are numerous. In the case against John Thomas for assaulting Mr John Burns, the city inspector, after a long hearing, the Bench discharged the prisoner. lima de Murska is ill with a sore throat, and cannot appear. It is stated that Mr W. J. M. Larnach tendered £6500 in gold as a deposit for land yesterday, but it was refused as one day too late. This land matter is creating intense excitement. The Daily 'limes, referring to the land gazetted for sale, says—“ The Executive procured by stratagem that the runholders should be the sole applicants for the cancelled blocks, Nothing can excuse this. The intention of the law is that a fair opportunity be given to all to buy. This has not been done. The fact, if it be one, of receiving the applications before, and of the publishing of the Gazette after, office hours would be at once unworthy of a public body, and injurious to the public interest. If the Executive had acted more openly, very little would or could have been said to the proposal to sell purely pastoral land.”