NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1537, 21 January 1879, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

[]?BB PBEBB AGENCY.] Wellington, January 20Mr. D. M. Luckie, the newly appointed commissioner of annuities, entered upon his new duties yesterday. The last of the quarantined immigrants at Soame3 Island are to be released to-day. Mr John Martin is cutting up the estate lately owned by Mr Waterhouse, and will offer about 40,000 acres in small farm sections by July next. The estate is very much overrun with rabbits. The land will be sold on deferred payments. Subsequently to the reporters being excluded from the Titanic Iron and Steel Co 'a meeting, the secretary informed the Press of the gist of the business done,, namely, that the special shares (2000) bo paid up in full, and that the nominal capital be .£50,000 ; that until the declaration of a dividend by the company, all special shares be entitled to interest at the rate of nine per cent, per annum on the amount paid in ; directors to have power to cancel the whole or any nortion of said special shares by paying the holder thereof the amount paid by him to the company. Another meeting will bo called in three months to confirm the above resolutions. The young lad, Bacon, who etole a bundle of notes to the amount of .£265 from the Anchor Line Office, was brought up before the Magistrate this morning and fully committed for trial at the next Criminal Sessions. Bail was allowed, the boy's father in .£2OO, and two sureties in .£IOO each.

Auckland, January 21. The valuation of the city of Auckland for 1879 amounts to .£155,047, as compared with ■£140,513 for 1878. Several properties are exempt by Acts of last session, or the increase would have been much larger. Pour tradesmen were fined at the Police Court this morning for having unstamped weights and measures in their possession. The " Herald" to-day says :—" We are authorised by the Native Minister to state that a telegram purporting to give the terms agreed on by Eewi and the Government is absolutely without foundation, and false in every possible respect. Rewi has never asked for, nor would the Government accede to such terms."