Commercial.

Hawke's Bay Times, Issue 1616, 2 October 1874, Page 378

Commercial.

AUCKLAND. 29th September. Sharemarket.—Alexander Saunders reports sales of National Bank, £3 10/; buyers of South British, £2 10/; sellers of South British, £2 12/ ; National Insurance, £1 10/. A calculation of a simple kind has been made to show the value to the United States ot the immigration that country has received in the mere matter of money brought in by the new arrivals. It is estimated that from 1788 to 1873 there were 8,779,174 aliens landed in the United States. They brought about S6B per head. Placing it at only SSO, we have $444,000,000 as the result. During the last financial year 456,803 immigrants landed in the States. The Government estimates that each of these landed in "good order" is worth £166 13s 4d to the country. The Wellington Evening Post of a late date says:—One of the most notorious rascals in New Zealand was arrested (for about the one thousand and first time) for robbery at Greytown. The name of this worthy is John Itiely, and the following is a brief sketch of his history during the last few years:—About the middle of 1865, he was in Picton Jail waiting to be forwarded to Dunedin, where he had one arm in a sling, pretending that it was broken. He was therefore less carefully watched, and an opportunity occurring, he escaped by climbing the palisading round the jail. He next was heard of at \ Taranaki, where he started business as a painter, and appeared to get on very well with the settlers. He even was made secretary of one of the friendly societies, and generally respected. Robberies, however, became frequent occurrences in Taranaki at that time. At last suspicion fell on Kiely and a warrant was issued for liis apprehension; he, nevertheless, eluded capture, and went into the interior, where he was taken by some of Captain Page's company ; he, however, did not choose to remain a prisoner, and again made his escape, taking with him a valuable watch and other property belonging to Captain Page. He was caught a second time, cither by tho Imperial troops or the Colonial forces, and again escaped. This was during the period that the country between Wanganui and Taranaki was in a state of disturbance. He next turned up in Wanganui, and while attending a circus performance, was arrested on suspicion i/f being concerned in a burglary recently committed there. On his person was found Captain Page's watch, and sundry other articles, the proceeds of various robberies. At Wanganui, he was committed to take his trial at Wellington. While waiting there to be forwarded to Wellington, and on the night previous to the day appointed to his going on board the steamer, he again managed-to break out of jail by picking or loosening the bars oi the cell window. Soon afterwards he turned up at the Hutt, aud at once stole a cash box from Mr Chdand's shop ; the box contained a sum of money and several cheques. At last, however, he was successfully captured and kept. In the beginning of 1866, the constable on duty on the beach observed a man trying the lock of Mr Burne'g door at one o'clock in the morning, and on going towards him he dropped on the ground arid pretended he was drunk.' On the constable lifting him up, he was noticed to make a grasp at something at his side, which turned out to be a sharp dagger, and then made a violent attempt to stab tho constable ; he was overpowered and lodged in the jail, where, while awaiting trial, he attempted to escape by concealing himself in a large copper. This earned for him the privilege of wearing leg-irons. On tho Ist March, 1866, he was tried at the Supreme Court, and received ten years' penal servitude. While undergoing sentence, he with others conspired to escape, for which offence he was ordered to be flogged, forty lashes being administered, "aud well laid on." He was discharged from jail at the latter end of last year. After a temporary retirement from active life, he was arrested on warrant by Constables Byrn and Hargood, at Long Bush, thirty miles from Greytown, charged with stealing £36 from a man named King, a pedlar, while the latter was asleep in a Maori hut..