LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 261, 3 November 1874, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

IIf^ERPROVINCIAL.

&&-pf+y.. Wellington, Monday. TlM^jraluation of City property for the present ye*r. givet the tafcaiie value at £127,261, aa agai st £47,826 of last year's. Two tectUms of the reclaimed ln»d were ■oUE&Hj&y for £600. -showing a profit of over £300. *4!}Jhe.. sections were only leasehold, and measure eighty-fire feet by thirty-fire feet each. In preparing the assessment roll for the City, only'sw untenanted houses were found hy the City Valuator,' while ninety houses were in course of erection. :•.. ' Tuesday. Mr George Donne is the successful tenderer for advertising on tbe following railway lines: — AucU*nd to M rcer; Nelson to Foxbill; Picton to Blenbiein; Brunner to Greymouih. Xhsf VlcUJhan Insurance Company refuse ULpay £1000 for which tbe steamer Paterson waa.iaaarod^in. that, office. The South BrWahj New^Zealand, and National have paid t&ir tosses, £4000 in all. ' Christohuboh, Monday. ,Tbe imbiber of general entries and acceptance, for, the Metropolitan races are as follows:— For tbe Derby, eleven; for the Jockey Club Handicap, seven; Railway Plate,. two. Second day.— Maiden Plate. •svetfi^Catiferbary Cup, seven; Lottery P&fe, eight; Grand Stand Handicap, eight. Third day,— Hurdle race, two; Chri-tchurch *F|a£>. nine; and the Metropolitan Handicap Stakes, seven. V ' ' Lttt-lton, Monday. °!_e ship Duke of Edinburgh h>is arrived, beiog 99 flays from. London. She briDgs 275 lm_igrsi_ts.i live bitths and three deaths (infants) occurred during the passage. Donedet, Monday. Mr Bathgate h« s reserved his decision in tha case* of the publicans charged before him witti having two bars in their houses. He convicted Lyons, who was charged with permitting, singing and daocingin his licensed Twoshopi In Palmerßton were burned down on Thursday morning. One belonged to Johnson a storekeeper, and the other to Bowman, a shoemaker. There was no in■_Qjnge i on either -Jw.,- , ".-., ■', Port Chalmers, Monday. "The.TJ.S.A.B. Swatara arrived here from the Chatham Islands last night, having locfftdjtise party: for observation there She reports .the received longitude of ihe island to;he,'eorrect. Tbe trip back occupied 60 hour* „ Auckland, Monday. rThe.iniuest on the late fire in Wakefleld■tgfe&wan again adjourned Afterwards, 3 individuals, Semsley, Woodward, aud Muilkr, were arrested by the police on a charge of arson;