YESTERDAY'S TELEGRAMS

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 954, 16 July 1877, Page 2

YESTERDAY'S TELEGRAMS

INTERPRO YINCIAL. Napier, July 14. Mr Miller reports the sale of Hallett’s Wharetoto leasehold of about 55,000 acres at a rental of £IOO, with 6000 sheep, a few horses, &c, to McDonald, of Waitaki, Canterbury, for £6500, delivery to be taken after shearing. Wellington, July 14. Owing to the number of houses now in course of construction there is a considerable demand for carpenters. There is an unusual glut of butter in the market just now, the very best being unsaleable at anything like a satisfactory figure. A new draft petition has been drawn up by the committee appointed to do so by the Conference, and on Monday next it will be laid before the Conference, with a view to its being laid before Parliament. The alterations in the Licensing Laws, which it suggests, are chiefly in the direction of placing in the hands of the people the power to decide by vote whether any new licenses, or renewals of existing licenses, shall be granted. It is aim proposed to make licensing districts very small; also, that for any breach of the licensing law the publican shall not only be fined but be liable to lose his license; that applications for licenses are to made only at annual meetings ; that written notice of an intention to apply for a licence should be given to the Resident Magistrate, and that it be also advertised twice a week for four weeks in some newspaper.

It is stated that applications for shares in the new Union Insurance Company are coming in freely. Breech-loading Snider rifles are to be distributed amongst the police at the beginning of next week.

Bluff, J uly 14. Sailed —Gazelle, Captain Giles, for the Auckland Islands, in search of the gold lost in the General Grant.