TELEGRAPHIC

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2247, 11 May 1881, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC

I NEW ZEALAND.

AUCKLAND, May 10. Municipal Solidity. The Auckland Corporation accounts for tho half-year show that the city funds are in a satisfactory state. Tho total liabilities arc £237,000, and the assets are valued at £278,000. The arrears of rates amount to £3152. A Labor of LoveThe police are making a tour of inspection among the workshops where female labour ia employed. Bereavement. Mrs Newton, who was killed at Adelaide on tho Orient steamer Potosi, was coming to Auckland with her two children to join her husband, who is an engineer resident at Gisborno. WELLINGTON, May 10. Neat Mercantile Point. At the Magistrate's Court this afternoon, Wm. Ernest Greatrex, of the firm of Greatrex and Sons, appeared to answer an information charging him with neglecting to furnish a statement of his property in the manner requirod by the Property Tax Assessment Act, 1879, within tho prescribed time. At tho outset Mr Brandon, on behalf of the defendant, asked the magistrate to decide a point which he desired to raise preparatory to the evidence being entered into, viz.—Had the defendant a right to set off all debts due by the firm in Wellington to tho firm in London, the members of that firm being the same ? After a long discussion, his Worship said that the question lias ono affecting the mercantile community, and he would take time to consider the point. The hearing of the case was adjourned until Tuesday next. Weatherwise. To-day Dr. Hector received the first telegram from Australia under the arrangement recently come to by the Meteorological Conference at Melbourne. The message, which was from the Government Astronomer of Victoria, stated that a "depression" was passing Tasmania. The inference from this statement is that a storm is approaching New Zealand, It is estimated that it takes about a day and a half for the depression to travel from Tasmania to the Bluff.