TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 4986, 16 March 1877, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

] ;r (PEfts PRESS AGENCY.) GraHamstown, Thursday. !' : The missing man Halliwell" was brought .into town last night.- He has been seventeen :days in'the bush'without food. For some days he' was demented, but is now rational i and well,- though reduced from long priva-

1 ! ■-"'-' Taupo, Thursday. ! I A great meeting of Taupo natives will take rplaceat Tapuaeharuaru on the 19th to receive rthe Hon. Dr. Pollen. Captain Mair arid the chief Pohipi are making the necessary arrangements. Te Heu Heu and other chiefs* from the upper part of the lake will attend. The Tokaua natives were anxious to have the meeting there, but this ! was overruled by , Pohipi. | i ! ' ■■ >■■ Auckland, Thursday. j ?udge Gillies rules that the word " meeting" in ; th"6 Bankruptcy Act means' more than one ifetEkm.V- Proceedings upon proxies where not more^than one creditor was present are invalid. This, applies, to several discharges granted tinder, the Act of 1875, where granted on proxies. A great number of discharged bankrupts here will have to get re-whitewashed. \ The, directors ,of the Moanatairi mine send daily telegrams to inform shareholders of progress. j The Bank of New South Wales has bought a site for new premises in Queen-Btreet, near the "Bank' of New Zealand. Extent, '4oft. frontage ; price, £l2O per foot. i William Moyle, landlord of the Wharf Hotel, was fined £2O for. Sunday trading, on the evidence'of one witness, although directly dontriadicted on'oath by'the defendant and his feei r/ : ! ' : ' : ; ;i -,- " i i r T '-: - ! The Artillbry 'Company intend to form .two batteries.. - , . ' i An' artillery corps is being formed at Onehunga. ~ . ■ , i An. address will'be. presented to Major Gordon on Wednesday. Great preparations are being made for the sports on St. Patrick's Day. . i ~,:..', '.. BlenheiMi Thursday. i The Marlborough County Council t have passed a* resolution not to adopt the full powers of the Act.

■;. Christchdhoh, Thursday. Wason has addressed his Coleridge constituents and received a vote of thanks. The Waimato. branch, line from the great southern railway will be' opened for trafflo on Monday next. Port Chalmers, Thursday.

, The barque spoken by the schooner Spunkie off the Northern coast, bound for Otago, and with cases of small-pox on board, must have been the Gloucester, showing, PLYM, now sixty-one days out from Hongkong for Otago. barque Sydney shows PLVN, hence the mistake. •■'':■'■..• .'.,.; . . ■•.. >■•."'• ':

! Dunedin, .Thursday. J The case of Pearson-v. • the. Corporation was continued to-day, and judgment .reserved. | lAtk injunction has been applied for to compel the Corporation to s remove the Pever Hospital from the town belt. r i The Davenports have accepted a challenge from Captain Barry, wliO bets £SO that he can tie them.so that they: cannot free themselves. The test will be made to-moifrow evening.

An Otago Bowing and Sailing Association has been formed in Dunedin.

THEATRE ROYAL. =.

Mrs. Scott-Siddons made 1 her first appearance at the Theatre Koyal last night to a house packed from floor to ceiling. :In our present issue.we have no room for a detailed notice of a performance which, so far as Mrs. ScottSiddons was concerned, was simply- {incomparable to anything seen here before, and indeed was felt by'all-to have Bhown* them the only personification of Shakspere's Juliet that they had ever seen, no matter how wide their experience had been., Mr., Steele, and, that admirable old actress, Mrs. Stoneham, were meet supporters of Mrs. Scott-Siddons, and the rest of the company, with fevident careful rehearsal and an honest intention to do their best, if not exactly as fit representatives of the various parts allotted "to .them|'as might be wished for, still played with a better spirit and in better style than they have for some time exhibited. The whole play went most smoothly, and Mrs. Scott-Siddons evoked the highest possible enthusiasm, and was called at the conclusion of every act.