TELEGRAPHIC.

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 960, 24 July 1877, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

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A a ckland Uiiemploy ed. Auckland, July 24. At a meeting of Meyers’ creditors the estate was vested in Mr Macfarlanc as trustee. The Union Sash and Door Company has declared a dividend of 25 per cent. The ship Yosemite, from London, lias brought an iron steamer in sections for the North Shore Terry Company, A deputation, representing three hundred unemployed, is about to wait upon the Mayor for work. A Maori woman has been apprehended, carrying a dead child in a bundle under her arm. it is supposed that she killed it accidentally in a lit of drunkenness. Reclamation Works at Wellington. Wellington, July 24. At a large meeting of ratepayers last night the desirableness of carrying out the Te Aro reclamation scheme and raising £100,00(1 for the purpose was carried by a large majority. The Wellington Working Men’s Club was formally opened last night. Grahamstown, July 24. Last night the Thames Valley Railway Committee adopted a petition to the House, praying for the construction of a railway between the Thames and the Waikato. Dunedin, July 24. The jury in the ease Pritchard v. Corporation of Dunedin, an action for £6OOO damages sustained by reason of the negligent formation of Canongate street, were locked up last night, and discharged this morning, as they could not agree upon a verdict. Port Chalmers, July 24. Arrived—Ethol, from Ivaipara ; Taranaki, ship, with 39 passengers and 2000 tons cargo (500 of which are water-pipes for Wellington), eighty-two days out from Glasgow, and seventy-nine from land to land. She had poor trades, but good westerlies. Was in company with the ship Eck, for four days on the equator, from London to Melbourne.