TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4317, 21 January 1875, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

[Press Telegraph Agency.] Auckland, Wednesday. At the Union Sash and Door Company’s half-yearly meeting a satisfactory report was read, announcing a dividend of 10 per cent. The Government gaol inquiry has closed. The result is favorable to the gaol management. The Luna has returned from the North, with Sir Donald McLean. A special steamer has been chartered to convey the colonial representatives to the Thames on Friday, immediately after the arrival of the Wellington from the South. New Plymouth, Wednesday. Mr. Jack, engineer for the Steel Works, has arrived to erect the blast furnace. The schooner Clio, in going into the Waitara, struck on the spit where the Paterson lies. No damage was done. The vessel will be got oft with the evening tide. The election of members of the Harbor Board takes place to-day. Carrington, Atkinson, Standish, Chilman, Brown, and Syme have been nominated by the Government. ; Messrs. Wells, Connel, and Andrews are also proposed, Greytown, Wednesday. The IVairarapa Standard severely criticises the procedure in the hearing of the -case Regina v. Alice McCartney, alias Miller, on a charge of concealment of birth ; also the action of Mr. Wardell in taking the case to Featherston, whereby his own convenience might be served but not that of the witnesses and doctor. It also says :—“ Occurrences of this kind are becoming too frequent to be agreeableand says “ the Minister of Justice ought at once to officially inform him (Mr. Wardell) that he has no right, and can in no way be justified, in making the public convenience subservient to his own.'], Napier, Wednesday. Sections of land at Woodville, in the Seventy-mile Bush, fetched good prices. Some of the best sections brought from £3OO to £4OO per acre. Most of the purchasers were local men, but Mr. Wilson, from Wellington, purchased several sections for West Coast clients. The rural sections on Taupo-road were all sold at the upset price of 10s. per acre. Mr. Macdougall purchased 1958 acres of rural sections in Pohui Bush. Nos. 105 and 106 were sold to S. Firth at the upset price of 40s. per acre. Ten sections of Awatotara, near Tareha Bridge, were bought by Mr. Ben Smith at the upset price of 20s. per acre. No sections on Gough Island were sold.

The Hiberuicon troupe are drawing crowded houses here. William Miles and Alexander Cameron have been committed for trial at the next Supreme Court sittings for stealing a piece of greenstone, valued at £l5O, the property of J. Gotty, of Palmerston. The prisoners stole the stone from a cart at the Spit, and buried it in the sand on the beach. The Inspector of Police obtained a slight clue, and followed it up very cleverly. The District Court sat yesterday for the last time. The Court will be abolished altogether at the end of the month. The City Council meets next Wednesday to elect a Mayor. Dunedin, Wednesday. There has been a great falling off in the yield of gold in Otago. The escort for 1873 brought down 145,0240z5. against 114,2140 z«. for 1874. By the Suez mail were despatched from here 2771 letters and 5205 papers, and via San Francisco 3886 letters and 5400 hewsnapers.