YESTERDAY'S TELEGRAMS

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 997, 5 September 1877, Page 2

YESTERDAY'S TELEGRAMS

(by submarine cable, per press agency.) Heavy Commercial Failure. Great Fire. The Metropolitan Cup. Sydney, September 4. Arrived —Rotorua and Hero. Messrs Clarke, Hodgson, and Co., of Brisbane, have suspended payment. Liabilities, £90,000. A great fire occurred at the Beehive store, Grafton, last night. The damage is estimated at over £SOOO. The following horses have been scratched for the Metropolitan race :— Coventry, Lo nisiPuna, Waxy, Eishernian, Glengarry, Black liable, Lean, Rook wood, Capati, Charity. Laertes, Kingfisher, Moira. Randwick Races. Maiden Stakes.—Woodlands, 1 (won easily) ; Ingomar, 2 ; Crusader, 3. Selling Plate—Wamba, 1 ; Bowstring, 2 ; Viscount, 3. Metropolitan —Amendment, 1; Painter, 2; Timothy, 3. Raxdavick Stakes Ra»Bomio, 3.

INTERPROYINCIAL. Auckland, September 4. Great interest was felt here in the race between the old Sydney trading steamer Hero and the Union Company’s Rotorua. There was a large amount of. betting. The steamers left Auckland within a quarter of an hour of each other. A cable message to the agents state that the Hero got in first. The Rotorua knocked two blades off her propeller. Morris Hyman, partner in a wholesale business firm, was remanded on a charge of forging a name to eight transfers of shares. Napier, Sept ember 4. Mr E. Miller reports the sale of Messrs Cable and Drummond’s station at Wairoa to Mr George G. Stead, of Christchurch, It consists of 9000 acres freehold and 14,000 leasehold, and includes 8000 sheep, with some horses and cattle. A large meeting of ladies was held to-day and passed resolutions establishing a Ladies’ Benevolent Society. The matter has been taken up very heartily. Oamaru, September 4.

At the Resident Magistrate’s Court to-day John Chalker was convicted of having in his possession a still and other apparatus suitable for distilling purposes, and was sentenced to eight months’ imprisonment. The plant was discovered by the police and the sub-collector of customs in Chalker’s House, situated on a farm leased by him at Inch Aimer from the Hon. M. Holmes. Mr O’Meagher defended him, and gave notice of appeal on the ground that the Magistrate suggested and allowed evidence lo be adduced to prove Chalker’s occupation of the house after Mr Calmer, the prosecuting counsel, had closed his case. [FKO3I the correspondents of the press.] Dunedin, September 4. A proposed sweeping reduction of pay in the gaol here is likely to lead to the resignation of all the old efficient officers, many of whom have seen nearly twenty years’ service. The “ Star ” asks the House to consider their laborious hours, which are longer than those of any other brand i of the service. Another section of the Olutha-Invercargill line is to be ready for opening on the Ist of October.