TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4336, 11 February 1875, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

[Per Press Agency.] Auckland, Wednesday The Alanukau Company has paid £3/50 dividend to five shareholders. An Auckland Iron and Steel Company is now being- formed in England. One-third of the shares are reserved for Auckland investors. William Sutton proceeds to England, per Gleulora, to bring out the plant. He writes to the Cross stating that from practical experiments he is satisfied that Auckland iron sand is equal to that of Taranaki, and can be more profitably worked owing to the cheapness of coal. Charles Madden, solicitor, has been arrested on a charge of larceny as a bailee, on warrant issued from Hamilton, Waikato. Another fall of 40s. per ton on flour is announced. Auckland superfine is quoted at £l3 10s. The Hero has sailed for Sydney. She took 5858 ounces of gold, value £24,313, of which 1556 ounces paid duty at Nelson. - At the sheep fair to-day there was a spleu. did show of rams. The best realised £3O to £45 each. Twenty rams were offered by Middleton ; they averaged over £l9 each ; several fetched over £4O. AIT the prices were vex-y good. Grahamstown, Wednesday. In the Warden’s Com-t, this morning, Richd. Stokes, carter, was fined Is. and 18s. costs foxbeing engaged in mining operations without a mixxer’s right. The defendant had been engaged in carting quartz from the Prince Imperial to the battery, and had to load his own dray. The decision of the Warden was that this employment came within the meaning of mining operations as defined by clause 3 of the Goldmining Districts Act, 1873. New Plymouth, Wednesday, A letter appears in to-day’s Herald from Dr. Dawson, in wlxich he states that he wishes to qualify the remarks in his previous letter. There was only one case of administering drugged wine to a young girl, and the alleged criminal was a comparatively new arrival. ' Napier, Wednesday. The City Council met yesterday, and appointed Mr. Cotterill solicitor at a £IOO a year, and advertised for a town clerk at £3OO. The appointment of surveyor is to stand over for the present. Specimens of moa bones have been found at Pakabu—tibia, 2ft. 2in. long, and femor about Ift. The bird must have been from Bft. to 10ft. high. Mr. Massey, scenic artist, is expected here this week, to paint new scenery for the pieces to be played by Air. and Airs. Bates. Taxjpo, Wednesday. The native meeting at Fort Galatea has just terminated. All the open lands in the neigh - bornood (excluding Troutbeck’s mu), have been acquired for the Government. The area is over a quarter of a million of acres, including extensive belts of totax-a forest. Liberal reserves for native cxxltxvatxon and x-esidence have been carefully made, and the hostile native mind, in that recently savage and disturbed district, has received its death-blow from the satisfactory and judicious manner in which the , arrangements of the Government have been t conducted on this important occasion. The i last business done by Air. Alitchell and Captain ) Alair at the meeting was the fixing a site and [ making arrangements for a school and industrxal college for the district. The natives give . the necessary lands, besides a goodly subscrip- ■ tion in money. One hundred and fifty children, it is said, will attend the school when it t is opened, besides many adults who express . anxiety to leam the mdiments of Exxropeau > knowledge. The site fixed upon is on the | Rangitaiki River, centrally placed for the , settlements in the valley, and on the borders of . the tlx-iwei-a country. 1 Wanganui, Wednesday. - The Jockey Chib has decided to give £2O j. to the second, and £lO to the third hox-se in I the Handicap. [ ' East night the Borough Council passed a rate of a shilling in the pound, and a special 3 one of sixpence. The public are dissatisfied. Air, Hutchison has called meetings for ! Friday and Saturday at Alarton and Bull’s. 1 The election promises to be e> citing. Tauranga, Wednesday, j' The Times says that the Government should 1 analyse the water of the hot springs, giving x invalids some data as to the respective cura--1 tive properties of the various xvaters of the New Zealand pools of Siloam. I Blenheim, Wednesday. 1 The Rev. Charles Clark’s lecture last niglxt J on the Tower of London was attended by a crowded audience, who were enthusiastic in 4 their applause. The lecturer quite entranced 3 his hearers, carrying them with him in his t every mood—now in bursts of laughter, and 3 then listening in hushed silence to the lecturer’s ’ pathetic descriptions. The cheers in conclusion . literally shook the building. He proceeds to t Wellington by the steamer Lyttelton to-night. r Christchurch, Wednesday. No fresh cases of sickness have occurred on k board the Rakara, and those under medical 3 treatment are progressing, most favorably. The t whole of the immigrants are now being landed. 1 The married people and single girls are at j Ripa Island, and the single men at Quail » Island. The saloon passengers remain on - board. The process of fumigating the ship 1 commenced yesterday morning, and the baggage, after being fumigated, will be landed this morning at Ripa and Quail Islands. Charles James, treasm-er of the Loyal City - Christchurch Lodge of Odd Fellows, has deJ camped with £360 of the Lodge funds. The promoters of the Female Refuge have 1 purchased two acres of laud as a site for the 1 building. The inmates will he divided into ' two classes, one of women who have been in , gaol, the other of those who have not. If the ! funds permit, accommodation will be provided for ten of the former and twenty of the > latter. P At the Alagistrate’s Court to-day Goodye^ , the cabman, given into custody by the Alayor i some days ago, for assisting to break down the * fence erected by the City Council ax-ound the cab • j stands, was fined 10s. The cabmen were taken ; aback at this, having acted under legal advice_ ; In removing the fence, the general question at 1 issue between the City Council and the cabmen is still undecided. The cabstands are still closed, and the cabs have to keep continually i on the move in the streets. At a meeting of the Bush Alission Committee to-day it was resolved to appoint a missionary . for six months, and a general superintendency committee was appointed.