LAST WIGHT'S TELEGRAMS

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1483, 16 November 1878, Page 2

LAST WIGHT'S TELEGRAMS

BY SUBMARINE CABLE. [eeutee’s telegrams to the pebss AGENCY."] AUSTRALIA. Sydney, November 15. Arrived—Easby, at Newcastle. Brandy, 9s ; Adelaide Hour, £ll 5s to £l2 j wheat, 5s Id j New Zealand, Is 4d. Adelaide, November 15. The Q-overnment intend to remove the prohibition on stock.

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS [pee press agency.] Auckland, November 15. There is a strong feeling in Auckland at the delay in proceeding with the public works during the present fine weather. A monster public meetingis projected. Probably no Auckland volunteers will go to the Rifle Association meeting in Nelson, owing to the refusal of the Government to issue regulation rifles to them, the same as those held by the southern volunteers. The Government require Aucklanders to purchase those rifles if they wish to change the weapons they have. Mr Coleman, a solicitor, was elected Mayor of Parnell. The Board of Education have received an intimation from the Minister of Education that £IB,OOO had been allotted for school buildings in this district.

Fifteen chiefs and priests arrived from the King countiy en route from Raglan to open a Hauhau chapel in Aotea district. At the Waste Lands Board meeting Mr Firth protested against the cancelling of Broomhall’a contract, saying onlj o«o tinrd of the land was fit for small settlers, the remaiua™ being hills or swamps, requiring a considerable outlay capital. Two applications for land for special settlement—one from Australia from a number of Germans—were submitted to the Land Board. In both cases replies were sent that the Board had no power to set apart land for such purposes. The New Zealand Lead and Galvanised Iron Works Company is to be wound up. George Darrell is about to bring over to New Zealand a new dramatic company, including Messrs Wybert, Heeve, and Sam Every. Dr. Wallis, M H.R., was welcomed Rick from Wellington by the Newton Kirk congregation by a soiree.

Richard Hobbs. M.H.R., has been elected for Manukau county, Mangatawhiri riding. Monuments have been erected in Mangerc cemetery in memory of two well known Waikato chiefs, Hori Kcrei Kati and Epiba TcTuku. Iho natives will boar half the cost. Grahamstown, November 15. The King’s Prime Minister writes fi'om Ohinemuri to the Thames County Council, asking them not to proceed with the road works through Tukumoki and other land for the present. The Government have amalgamated the ofixcc of Mining Inspector with that of Goldfields Surveyor, now held by Mr J. M. McLaren, thus saving £3OO a year. ... Wellington, November 15.

The District Court opened for the first time to-day in the old Provincial Council chambers. Owing to the bad accommodation at the R.M. Court”, it is thought that the Court will also be held in the same chamber as the District Court until such time as the new Courthouse is built. The Hinemoa with the Governor arrived from Lyttelton. At the preliminary inquiry into the loss of the CavloiU at the Heads, it was elicited fro-n the master that the immediate cause of the wreck was that the ves-el mis ed stays wh le be tting into the Heads. A good deal cf the rigging has been saved, but the vessel wid never be got off. The Chamber of Commerce are in communication with the Premier regarding the establishment of a Sailors’ Home fur Wellington. 'J hr c hundted acres of the Ckotuku Block sold tor .£2875, nearly 300 per cent, above the unset price. _ , „ . . , For the last two days the Court of Appeal has been occupied in hearing arguments in the ease Mon in and another v. Ki-sling. It is an Auckland case, and i J of gem ral importance Horn tho fact that it raises the whole q c tiou ot the relationship between p ineipals un ', V. was alleged tU4 abmt Ith June, 1877. p amtifta vctai»«4 «»| ,lc V' cli defendant, fov coouas*

aion or reward, to purchase for them a certain piece or parcel of land situate in the Piako district, in the colony of New Zealand, and known as Maunvfttepare block, ihe said defendant accepted the retainer, and purchased the land as an agent for and on behalf of the plaintiffs, who have always been and are still, willing and offered to pay defendant the purchase-money of land, and a reasonable sum, too, for his commission for purchasing the same ; that said defendant, in breach of his duty as the said agent, has obtained a conveyance of the said land in his own name, and claims the said land as his own property, and refuses to acknowledge the plaintiffs' right to the same, and contends that to entitle the plaintiffs to the relief a-ked for the facts relied upon by p.aintiffs must, in accordance with the provisions of the section of the Statute of Frauds, be manifested and proved by some writing signed by defendant, and as it is not alleged in the declaration that there is such a writing, it must be taken that therj is no such writing. The Court has reserved judgBlenheim, November 15. A. M. Normanhy, tailor, charged at the R. M. Court with perjury in his statement regarding his bankruptcy, was remanded to Monday. Gbeymouth, November 10. The Greymouth t’oal Company’s mine and plant was sold to-day at auction, by W. B. Moss, for the sum of £II,BOO. J. A. Mackenzie, of Dunedin, is the purchaser. Timaeu, November 15. _ A sad and fatal accident occurral at 11.30 this morning. The roof blew off a house near Ormsby’s flour mill, taking a chimney with it. The fall of the la ter caused the instantaneous death of an infant seven months old, and Mrs Drew diet! about ten minutes afterwards. Drew is a most respectable man, head miller at the mill in question. Great sympathy is felt at his sudden bereavement. , Dunedin, November 15. The committee formed some months ago to compel the removal of the fever hospital from the town belt, held their final meeting this week, the object for which they were appointed having been effected.