LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 158, 6 July 1877, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[press agency.] INTEE PROVINCIAL. Auckland, Thursday. The Rev. Mr Monro has been inducted to St. Luke's Presbyterian Church. The members of the Presbytery have adopted a petition to the Assembly embodying the permissive licensing principle. The three men charged with rape on an old woman were acquitted, the evidence of the prosecutrix bein» unsupported, and the evidence for the defence showing her to be intemperate and with a bad memory. When discharged, Hugh M'Kenzie, one of the accused, knelt down in the dock and publicly thanked God for his deliverance. Mr Cos, M.H.R., addressed his constitu- j ents at Awamatu, Waikato, when a vote of want of confidence was passea by a Jaree j majority. * I Wellington, Thursday. ' Sir Dillon Bell has been called to a seat in the Legislative Council. The Harbor Board this afternoon resolved that the Wharves and Quay Keserves, -concerning which the Assembly decided in favor of the Board last year, should be given back to the City Council. „ _ Friday. Mr Thomas reports Adelaide flour at £19 to £20 ; oats, 3s 9d to 4s ; brau, Is to Is 2d ; wheat, chick, 4s 3d ; hams, in cloth, lOd ; bacon, B£d ; cheese, 7fd ; maize, 4s 3d to 4s 6d ; pollard, £7 10s ; potatoes, £3 15s. The Government have been advised by a San Francisco telegram that the City of Sydney with the English mails to 3 1st May, left San Francisco for Auckland on June 20, the contract date. She will consequently be due at Auckland on Saturday, the 14th instant Charles Grey, confectioner, was this morning sentenced to two months' imprisonment without hard labor for fraudulent insolvency. Thomas Carey Brown, Civil Engineer, lately in the Public Worka Department and Engineer on the Hutt line hung himself this morning with j, silk handkerchief from a fence rail, three feet high, near Johnsonville. In the Supreme Court, the Ocean Mail perjury case was decided this afternoon. Alexander Coleman, the second mate, and W. Morrison were both found guilty. Sentence will be pronounced on Wednesday nest. Christchurch, Thursday. In the Supreme Court to-day, Margaret Henderson, charged with perjury, was acquitted. This concluded the criminal business. AsHßtraTOtf, Wednesday. At Mr Mabin's opening sale to-day, 15,000 bushels of oats realised 4s per bushel nett cash. Timaru, Friday. The Hon E. W. Stafford is to arrive here on Monday to take part in the Municipal festivities on the occasion of opening the new Town Hall, and is to address the electors on Wednesday evening. Firms and dealers in this district are reverting to drays, the railway tariff proving prohibitory. . Oahabu, Thursday. There is no change in the grain and breadstuffs market. Wheat maintains last quotations, viz., 7s for best milling; oats, 3s 5d to 3s 8d; barley, nothing doing. Prices of breadstuffs, f .0.b., flour, £19 to £20; oatmeal, £20; pearl barley, £22; bran, £9; potatoes, 45s to 50a. . ; DcTNEDra, Thursday. Mr Montagu Pym to-day sold by auction the Drill Shed Reserve leases for a rental of £585 per annum, the total ground being less than one sixth of an acre. Thisus said to be the highest price land ever fetched in the colony. '