YESTERDAYS TELEGRAMS

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 946, 6 July 1877, Page 2

YESTERDAYS TELEGRAMS

* INTERPROVINCIAL. [pee peess agency.] Auckland, July 5. The members of the Presbytery have adopted a petition to the Assembly embodying the permissive licensing principle. The three men charged with rape on an old woman were acquitted, the evidence of the prosecutrix being unsupported, and the evidence for the defence showing her to be intemperate, with a bad memory. When discharged, Hugh McKenzie, one of the accused, knelt in the dock and publicly thanked God for his deliverance. Mr Cox, M.H.R., has addressed his constituents at Awamutu, Waikato. A vote of want of confidence was passed by a large majority. The Rev. Mr Monro has been inducted to the charge of St. Luke’s Presbyterian Church. Wellington, July 5. Sir Francis Dillon Bell has been called to a seat in the Legislative Council. Charles Grey, confectioner, formerly in business at Dunedin and Auckland, has been found guilty of fraudulent insolvency by not giving up all his property to the trustee of his estate. He will probably be sentenced tomorrow.

Mr Munro, Mayor of Westport, has to-day concluded arrangements with the Government as to the leases of the town sections at Westport, forming part of the Colliery Reserve, and in reference to which a Royal Commission reported last year. The following are the terras :—Leases to be issued for twentyone years from the Ist instant. Rents for first seven years £5, 50s, and 20s per section, according to position. Second seven years, one-third more ; third seven years, double the rate for the first term. Arrears of rent to the 30th ultimo calculated on the basis approved by Mr Curtis, ex-Superintendent of Nelson. These arrangements entirely upset the recommendations of the Royal Commission.

Dunedin, July 5. Mr Montagu Pym to-day sold by auction the drill-shed reserve leases for a rental of £585 per annum, the total quantity of ground being less than one-sixth of an acre. Tills is said to be the highest price for land ever obtained in the colony. The Harbor Board this afternoon resolved that the Wharves and Quay Reserves, concerning which the Assembly decided in favor of the Board last year, should be given back to the City Council. [from a correspondent of the press.] Timaeh, July 5. Mr Stafford is to address his constituents here on Wednesday evening next. Dunedin, July 5. The women charged with child desertion ■were acquitted, the Bench being divided. The Drill-shed reserve was sold by auction, producing £SBB a year from a quarter acre, which represents at current interest a pur-chase-value equivalent to £20,000 per acre. Mr Proudfoot is the principal purchaser.