YESTERDAY'S TELEGRAMS

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 925, 12 June 1877, Page 2

YESTERDAY'S TELEGRAMS

[by submarine cable, per press agency.]

EUROPEAN

Improvement in the Wool Market,

The Wheat Market Bull. London, June 13. The passage of the Danube is expected to be made at Nicopoli. The main Turkish army in Asia is encamped at Hassan Kaleh.

The wool market is improved in tone. French buyers arc again competing. The home demand is weak. The prices for greasy and medium are equal to the March rates. Cross-bred fleece is Id lower. The prices for scoured are somewhat irregular. Wheat is dull. Now Zealand at G3s. Arrived —AVaitara and Avalanche.

AUSTRALIAN. Sydney, June II Arrived —Rotorua and Arawata. Flour is 10s lower. The market is dull.

A proposal has been received from the Submarine Telegraph Company to lay a cable from Gaffe to Australia.

INTERPROY IN CIAL,

[pee press agency.] Auckland, June 11

Captain Pa Hunt, of the three-masted schooner Neva, from Dunedin, while at Hokianga, met with a severe accident while assisting to load timber in the hold. The timber was being lowered in slings, when the gear snapped. His leg was broken, and his chest seriously injured. Wellington, Juno 11.

The City Council passed a resolution to-day by 7 to 3 that Mr Climic, C.E., should be appointed the engineer to carry out the drainage scheme, and Mr Blackett consulting engineer. If Mr Blackett is not available then that Mr Napier Bell be requested to act. The committee of the whole Council to meet Mr Climie and discuss terms. The motion re dismissal of officials was further postponed 1 ill a special meeting next. Monday. Mr Travers, on hehall ol the citizens, presented an address and a purse of 175 sovereigns to Michael Monaghan, late senior sergeant in the police force here. There was a large attendance of merchants and other leading citizens at the presentation. Blenheim, June 11.

At the Supreme Court to day, before the Chief Justice, the Grand Jury made a presentment for sittings of the District Court. The Judge said he would forward it to the Minister of Justice. Surah Ramsay, for forgery at Tvaikoura, pleaded guilty. The Grand Jury ignored the bill against William Mackintosh for rickburning. lie will be sent to W ellimdun Lunatic Asylum, whence he is alleged In have escaped. Georgc> 1C Jls, of Xaikoura, was aetiuilled on (lie ehai'ge of cattle stealing. The Crown abandoned the second charge as hopeless. The Borough Council will send a delegate to the Municipal Conference. Mr Cotterell and Isabella Carandini close a very successful season io-uight. Reki'tox, June 11.

The Hopeful Mining Company cleaned up on Saturday, after about a fortnight’s crushing, (j 24 ounces of melted gold. A dividend of 6s has been declared. Dunedin, June 11.

The annual meeting of the Chamber of Commerce was held to-day. The Chairman remarked on one or two subjects mentioned in the report, referring especially to railway communication and the gap between Balclutha

and Clint on. Some of their members thought, the line could be commenced and finished within six months, and the best thing to do would be to bring all their influence to bear on their representatives in the Assembly, so that the latter might call upon the Government to fill up the gap with all possible speed. The Chamber was undoubtedly at present in a sickly state, but there was no reason that it should be so, and if- could be made a power for good if its members chose to exert themselves in the proper direction, and he hoped the state of almost death, but certainly of somnolence, would soon be done away with. Dunedin merchants should not be satisfied with the interprovincial trade, and that day was not far off when they woidd extend their ramifications to neighboring groups of islands, instead of their allowing, as now, New Caledonia to send its orders to Melbourne. The balancesheet, showing an indebtedness of £65 17s lOd to the treasurer, was adopted, the chairman characterising it as a disgrace to themselves.

T 1 le City Council to-day approved of the recommendation of the finance committee lo exchange £12,000 and the cattle market reserve, being nine and a half acres of the town belt, for the site and building of the Dunedin General Hospital. Two additional plans have been received for the Dunedin Town Hall.

Invercargill, June 11

In the Supreme Court to-day the Grand Jury found true bills against John Monaghan charged with murder; Charles Caldcrwood, attempted murder; Charles Wells, wife stabbing; John Ritchie, Itabbing; John Burns, cat tle stealing ; Frederick Middleton, burglary. Middleton was found guilty and remanded for sentence. Ritchie and Wells were acquitted by the petty jury. MacLachlan, a witness in Ritchie’s case, did not appear when called on, and the Judge ordered his recognizances, £SO, to be estreated. The Grand Jury made a presentment as to the inadequacy of the accommodation for the sitting of the Court here, and regretted that a similar presentment made before by previous juries had not been recognised. The Judge concurred, and promised to forward it to the proper authority. Monaghan and Caldcrwood are to bo tried to-morrow.

{[FROM CORRESPONDENTS OF THE PRESS.] Timaru, July 11.

The Supreme Court to-day was opened at 10 a.m. and adjourned at 5.30 p.m. True bills were found against all the prisoners but Dugald Blue, charged with sheep stealing. His Honor, in his opening address, said that the calendar, though a long one, only contained one case (that of rape) of any great importance. William Lechner pleaded guilty to embezzling money, the property of his employers, Perry and Perry, solicitors, and was sentenced to two years. William Powell pleaded guilty to common larceny, and was sentenced to six months. John "William Fleming pleaded guilty to forgery and uttering, and was sentenced to eighteen months. John Wilson for horse stealing was sentenced to eighteen months. Edward Ryan for,’common larceny was sentenced to two years. Cornelius Toll for larceny was found guilty. Sentence was deferred till to-morrow. The libel cases will probably occupy the whole of to-morrow. Mr Joynt defends Cuming.

Dunedin, June 11

The City Council propose giving 91 acres of the Cattle Market reserve and £12,000, for the present General Hospital site and building in King street, and leasing the latter if Parliamentary sanction to exchange be obtained. On the other hand, Mr Burns, M.H.R., as member for the Taieri county, moves a series of resolutions asking Otago’s representatives in the Assembly to support a motion for the appointment of a Commission of Inquiry into the manner in which the various reserves held by the Corporation have been administered, and proposes that the trusteeship of the Town belt should vest in suburban equally with the town municipality.

The Chamber of Commerce could barely get a quorum at its annual meeting to-day. The chairman admitted that the Chamber did not have the influence it ought to have. _ The committee’s report went over a deal of old ground. Considerable reference was made to the delay in the construction of the Southern line, which was solely attributable to the Government. On Friday the Chamber meets the Otago representatives of the Assembly, lo advise what action should be taken to push on the work. Regarding the branch lines the committee pronounce in favor of the Strath Taieri route for the central interior line, a branch from Waipa to Tapanui, and a loop line from Gore to Elbow, as all are urgently needed. On the general state of trade the report speaks at length. Notwithstanding the doubts and fears with which 1876 opened, and the gloomy prognostications indulged in by the Press of the neighboring colonies, New Zealand had gone through what threatened to be a state of semi-crisis with a degree of buoyancy altogether unlooked for, and it may safely be said that the worst is over. In Dunedin there was evidence of an accumulation of stocks which have been and are being gradually reduced. This has loci to smaller importations for the past two years, but, so far from this being a sign of weakness, it may bo regarded as judicious management. There arc other influences at work tending to reduce the gross value of imports, thus: —First— Many classes of goods have gone down in price in a very marked degree. Second —Iron for railway purposes has not been required to the same extent as in 1874-75. Third —We are now manufacturing amongst ourselves a large number of articles which used formerly to swell up the sum of imports —namely, amongst others, agricultural implements, apparel, hoots and shoes, brass and copper wares, chemicals, hats and caps, and furniture. For a time, too, the interprovincial trade of the port suffered a diminution, but this is fast recovering, and will no doubt continue to grow. As Government immigration becomes smaller there will not bo the same facilities for shipments from home to the smaller ports of the colony. A striking example of this is to bo seen in the development x of the trade between the east coast of the North Island and Dunedin and Lyttelton. There can be little doubt but (hat, with increased appliances and growing confidence in the stability of commerce in Otago and other provinces, Dunedin will, through the enterprise of its merchants, continue to make steady progress, and to take its proper rank amongst the other cities of New Zealand. Returns of exports for the past year show an increase in all the more important items of production, with the exception of gold. The exports of wool have increased in quantity 10 per cent from the previous year. The exports of tallow and preserved meats arc much larger than for some years previous, and that of the various

descriptions of grain have been well maintained.

At eight o’clock last night constable Willis brought a man named Thomas Johnston to the police station in a spring cart, intending to lock him up, but as he was suffering from delirium tremens, sergeant-major Bevin ordered bis removal to the Hospital, where he died yesterday. Information was conveyed to the police last evening that Johnston had been going about Wakari Hill shouting and in a very excited state. On going to Jolinsl on’s bouse the constable found him in the ball, lying on bis back and unable to stand. Ho appeared to be suffering from drink. Ho had both bis bands on his throat and held a pocket-knife in one hand, but did not attempt any injury to himself. His detention at the police station was very short, for he was removed to the Hospital almost immediately. An inquest will bo Held, to-morrow.