YESTERDAY'S TELEGRAMS

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 882, 23 April 1877, Page 2

YESTERDAY'S TELEGRAMS

INTERPEOYINCTAL. [Pint Piikss Agkxcy.] Agricultural Statistics of Auckland. Aucklan'd, April 21. The agricultural statistics oh' the Auckland district have just been completed. The total decrease of land under crop is 2(!00 acres, but in reality there is an increase. In previous returns runholders returned the whole of the land in natural grasses as land under crop, but in the present return such land is excluded, only cultivated grasses being included. Deducting 35,000 acres in natural grass from last year’s return, there is an actual increase of cultivated land of nearly 37,000 acres. The returns also show a very large increase under the head of land broken up but not under crop the principal increase being in the Waikato, Waipa, and Franklin districts. A summary of figures for the districts of Mongonui, Bay o f Islands, Marsden, Rodney, Waitemata, Eden, Parnell, Newton, Onehunga, Franklin, Waikato, Waipa, Thames, East Coast, Auckland City East and West gives following totals:— Number of holdings: Freehold, 3450; rented, 540“; part freehold, part rented, 105. Total

holdings, 4191. Extent of land broken up, but not under crop, 21,179:1; acres. In wheat the number of acres sown for grain, only 1055? ; gross produce, bushels, 46,9041. In oats, for green food or hay, 5814 i ; grain, 2200? ; estimate of gross produce: grain, bushels, 52,047. Barley, acres sown; grain, only 2071 ; estimated gross produce in bushels, 5124. Hay, 9601 ? acres ; estimated gross produce in tons, 11,743?. Grasses after having been broken up, including such as in hay, 18,541? acres. Grass-sown lands, not previously ploughed, including such as in hay, 159,040. Potatoes, 3938? acres; estimated gross produce, tons, 20,843. Oother crops, 3181?. Total number of acres under crop, including sown grasses, 359,670?; quantity of last year’s crop remaining on hand when the form was filled up —wheat, 161 bushels; oats, 115 bushels; barley, 262 bushels. Working Men’s Hotel. A meeting for the establishment of a Work ing Men’s Hotel has been held. About forty gentlemen, including ministers, attended, amongst whom were Mr Justice Gillies, Col. Haultain, and Mr W. Swanson. The Rev Mr Hassard gave a resume of Ids previous statement, and urged the necessity for such places of resort for working men, ■where they might be able to enjoy mutual intellectual pleasure, with all the advantages of a temperance hotel. A committee was appointed to make enquiries. It is feared that the vessel wrecked in Palliser Bay is the Kate Brain. Wellington, April 22. A. private telegram received last night from the Colonial Sugar Company, Sydney, states that first counters, counters, and yellows have advanced £1 per ton. A Wanganui man named Moffatt, who was suspected of manufacturing powder and selling it to the Natives, was brought from Upper Wanganui by a number of Natives. He was brought before the Rosichmt Magistrate at Wanganui and committed for trial on the evidence heard. The evidence, generally, went to show that he had been making large quantities of gunpowder, and in a book found on him there was an entry in his own writing to the effect that he had made 2861 pounds for the Waikato. One witness named Nott, who knew Moffatt for the last five years, said that in April last ho saw him at Upper Wanganui making six tin dishes of powder. 1 was of good quality. Next morning it was taken away—he did not know by whom, but thought by the Waikatos, who got it instead of the Wanganui Natives. It is thought that this is the reason the Wanganuis disclosed the facts and apprehended him. Riverton, April 21.

At a meeting of the Waste Lands Board today, the members in dealing with the cases of J. Mackintosh, senr., and J. Mackintosh, junr. the licensees of deferred payment sections in the Oreti Hundred, resolved—That it having boon shown to the satisfaction of the Board that the conditions in the Act, clause 54, subsection 4, as regards the words “ personally occupy the allotments ” within six months after the issue of the licenses, have not been complied with by the licensees of sections 80 and 81, Oreti Hundred, the Board hereby revokes such licenses, and resumes possession of the land therein mentioned. Port Chalmers, April 21.

The Hinemoa arrived this morning. The G-overnor landed at 10.30 a.in. He was received by the Mayor and Council, who presented an address. After visiting the graving dock, shipping, and other points of interest, his Excellency was accompanied to Dunedin by the Mayor and Council.

[from a correspondent of the press.] Timartj, April 22. At the inquest to-day on the body of the sailor who was drowned while attempting to get on board the wrecked barque Isabella Ridley, the following verdict was returned : “ That Thomas Smith was accidentally drowned on Friday, April 20th, 1877.” The deceased was twenty-five years of age, and a native of Norway.