TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

Inangahua Times, Volume IV, Issue 8, 27 April 1877, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

«t [BY ELECTRIC TELBGIUPK.] I [PBB PBE93 ASSOCIATION.] Auckland, April 26* . Walker, the trance m^t^m, from Sydney, gave a private seance to the members . of the Press last night. The subject w s i "What is trnth ?** Tbe medium proF frssed) lie was un,der tjhe control of the * spirit of the Key Djr Stewart who died in 1 1805,. He lectured discursive, pantheistic, 9 and speculative, but waa utterly deficient ' ; in anything tangible, TKp. medium sub--3 i mitted to questions, which were princi--5 pally directed to, the. elucidation, of some ? practical tesjt. Th« answers wefe general 5 acd evasive. The Press tints that the I wool? afl »»* > 9 N'lWWv' s The thirty«first half-yearly meeting of . the Bank of New Zetland was, held to- . i day, Br Canjpbejl in, the ohtir. The re* port and balance-sheet were unanimously * adopted. The. report wag as follows:— » Net profits on March 3lst, after making i ample proTision for every. deb,t considered t bad or. doubtful, for reduction of bank , premises, furnittn-e, &c, amount to ' £61,687, to wliich is to be added the amount recei?ed as premium on wares t issued to shareholders of the Eq> Bank. I ing Company &17.600, ana the balance or f undivided profit; on September 30 £8635, . making a total availably for division of f 1i87,8^2. The following appropriation of which is now recommended a dividend r at the rate of 10 per cent, £36,250 ;. boons. £5 per shar^, £1^,125 ; total for diTision, 1 £54,375; addition to roserie funi > £25,000 ; balance carried forward to next , half-year, £8447. The Bank capital now, . stands at £725,000; reserve fund, 1 £275,000; total, one million. The. divi* ' dend and bonus will be payable at the » head office, Auckland, on, Monday, April . 30th, and at receipt of advice. . WkSOAmn, April 26. t Judge Eichmond, in pasting sentence on Moffatt, said, *' If your offence were 1 to be pnnjsbed in proportion to the ' danger which it occasioned to the public, > you ought to, receive a heavy sentence > You are to be looked upon by all well , judging persons as an enemy of- both , races in this Island. On the one hand , you have been strengthening the enemy, against your fellow countrymen merciless 1 for Maori victory. You well know the 1 meaning of massacre, sparing neither sex. i On tbe other hand you have been en- .' couraging the disaffected in vain^ resistance to the advance of civilization; 1 Yon have been planning disaster ' for the European, but for tbe 1 Native you have. been, preparing utter 1 distraction. The evidence, but gives, a , glimpse of your proceedings, enough , however, to disclose their dangerous : treasonable character. It is well for you that the time is one of pronounced peace, or you could expect and deserve nothing . but the halter. lam going to pass upon, , yoit, a most inadequate sentence, but it is , the heaviest which is allowed, by the ex* , treme. leniency of the law, on this sub-. ' ject— to be sentenced to two. years' im- * prisonment with, hard, labor." > —