TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 4949, 1 February 1877, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(PER PRESS AGENCY.) Auckland, Wednesday. - Dr. Skae is now inspecting the Auckland Lunatic Asylum. The Waitemata County Council has resolved to bring the whole of the Counties Act into operation. New, Plymouth, Wednesday.

The Budget appeared for the last time this evening. Mr. Kenworthy, the proprietor, in his farewell article comments on the depression which has been the cause of his suspending its publication, and says;—“ The place is progressing crab-fashion; it is going backwards. Our advertising columns may be taken as an example of what is happening to this district. This proprietor, not being satisfied with a miserable existence, and' to prevent serious moneylosseshas decided to clear out.” He says : “The: Budget started suddenly, it subsides similarly;” and concludes with the remark, “ the place is not yet sufficiently advanced to support a daily paper.” Wanganui, Wednesday.

The following changes will take place in the Resident Magistrate’s Court here:—Dr. Giles .takes the appointment of Under-Secretary for Lands and Mines, and removes to Wellington ; Hardcastle, clerk of the court, Hokitika, is to -.be appointed R.M.; South is to be transferred to Hokitika; and G. W. Wdon is to be appointed clerk of the court hero, , . Blenheim, Wednesday. The estimated annual value, of the borough of Blenheim is £14,778. The, late fire and the new mode of valuation have caused great redaction. Dunedin, Wednesday. At the City-Council yesterday a charge of maltreatment was preferred against the master of the Fever and the Sanitary Committee is to investigate the matter. 1 A special meeting will be held next Tuesday to consider the new Municipal Act. Tenders are wanted for the new municipal' building at Dunedin. . Present cost, £7OOO ; eventual cost, £30,000. The Otago Education Board has received 3836 volumes, valued at £IOOO, from Great Britain, for the public and school libraries. ' The Dunedin Harmonic Society has amalgamated with the new Choral Society, which promises to be very successful. The third annual meeting of the Imperial Building Society was held last evening. The return showed a net balance of £565 15s. 7d. for the last year. Mrs. Scott-Siddons is playing to splendid houses at the Princess Theatre, and Baker and, Farron opened :to a good business at the Queen’s last night. . At the Education Board to-day Mr. Donald Reid’s resignation as a member was received. If was resolved that the Government be requested to grant ‘ free passes’ by railway to all girls and ■ boys attending the upper classes of the High and Grammar Schools, and to students attending l the Normal School for training as teachers. ~ The vital statistics in the Dunedin District for January are—Births, 183; marriages, 29; deaths, 50. ■ . • Upwards of 150 shareholders attended the half-yearly meeting of the Colonial Bank this afternoon. Mr. James Rattray, who presided, said that the bank had secured several of the -best accounts that were in New Zealand, and that with its New, Zealand proprietary the bank had a great advantage. The gross profits had increased each month, and the shareholders could therefore take their 6 per cent, dividend with a clear conscience.

The civil sittings of the Supreme Court closed to-day. '