TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 4862, 21 October 1876, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(PER PRESS AGENCY.)' Auckland, Friday. At the Bank of New Zealand half-yearly meeting to-day, the report showed the net profit, after allowing for bad debts,' to be £54,300. Other receipts made the total for division £63,000. A dividend of fifteen per cent, was declared. Interest to the amount of £1942 is reserved for the Fiji Bank shareholders, and a balance of £B6OO has been carried forward. . ■ Naples, Friday. ! The annual show of the Hawke’s Bay Agricultural and Pastoral Society was held at Hastings yesterday and to-day, and was a great success. Yesterday tho show was exclusively of sheep, the exhibits of which showed a great improvement upon former 'years. Some of . them indeed could not have been excelled throughout the colonies,' There' ,was not a/large attendance yesterday, the ‘price of admission, having, been purposely fixed: at five shillings, and thosepresent were therefore

mostly' persons interested in the exhibits, or connected with the sheep-breeding interest. To-day the admission was Is., and the attendance was very large. The day was kept as a holiday in Napier, and the town was quite deserted. The show included horses, cattle, farm and dairy produce, and a flower-show. A sheep-shearing competition attracted much interest. There was rain in the afternoon, but not heavy.

Patea, Friday. Entries for Patea District Handicap ; Fojily, . aged ; Firetail, aged; „ Cornelia, syrs.; Iniquity, syrs.; Treason, 4yrs.; Satellite, 6yra.; Sailor, 4yrs.; Patrick, 3yrs.; Flora McDonald, 4 years ; Cripplegate, 3yrs. , , Hokitika, Friday. At an influential meeting of merchants' held last night the following resolutions were carried unanimously That it is desirable the lighthouse at Hokitika, being the first port of call for intercolonial steamers,' be completed as soon as possible ; second, regret opposition ex- ; pressed to lighthouse, as it was a want long i felt by the shipping interest on the Coast; third, the Mayer be requested to sent the resolutions to the Government, Superintendent, and 1 members for the district. ~ ■ (i: /- 'a Christchurch, Friday. A man named , Kiely obtained a verdict in the : Supreme Court to-day for £l5O, for assault and : illegal detention. Kiely was travelling on the ; railway, and shortly after, the tickets had been : collected the, guard . returned, saying that the 1 ticket given by Kiely was not for the full distance, and demanded the balance of the fare. Kiely denied that the ticket was his, where-, .upon he was forcibly removed to the guard's van, but set at liberty without comment when the train arrived at Christchurch. The Provincial Solicitor gave notice that he would 'move for the verdict to be set aside on the ground of a legal informality in the plaintiff’s 'declaration.. .• , ; , A man named Knibbs has been committed for trial for stealing letters from a private letter box at the General Post Office, also for having coining apparatus in his possession. Dunedin, Friday. C. W. Ireland, a son of the Melbourne barrister, .was sworn in a solicitor of the Supreme Court of New Zealand. Sims, 8.N., swam across the bay yesterday for £5. It took him an hour and twenty minutes. , A fine reef of antimony has been discovered six miles from Outram

Simonsena open on Monday in “ Nonna.” The Harbor Board carried a resolution that it is advisable members should ,be returned by electors of the province, who should vote by proxy. It has been decided by the Education Board that pupil teachers of the Normal School shall attend lectures on physiology. . i The Guardian says:—“Earl CarriAfvons reply has given a different aspect to the tjvkestion of abolition, and will cause deep regret to those who have earnestly striven against the triumph of centralism. The despatch is a heavy blow to the hopes of the federalists, and we fear a fatal one. That deep dissatisfaction and unrest will supervene for years is a prospect that we cannot shut out from our eyes, nor do we see what Will allay it, or give any hope of stayingthe ruinous reign of bureaucracy, but removal of the seat of Government from Wellington, and to that the; efforts of the country must be now directed.” - - :