TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 5031, 9 May 1877, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(per pkess agency.) Auckland, Tuesday. Great dissatisfaction is expressed here at rise of flour by the millers. Southern, £lB ; superfine (Auckland), £22. The Sash and Door Company have called a meeting to increase the capital by the issue of thirty thousand (sic.) shares, nominally of £5. The city accounts, presented to-day, showed receipts for the first three months of the year to be £5540 ; licenses yielding £479, with £2627 for rates ; endowment, £1143 ; office expenditure, £717; on streets and footways, £1248. £2439 from the loan has been expended on the same object ; silt basins, £156 ; fire brigades, £ll2. The balance in the bank on ordinary account is £2366 ; on account of loan, £7200. Total city indebtedness, including waterworks loan, £169,504 ; assets, £243,479. Bread is fivepence the 21b. loaf, and the dissatisfaction is so great that a co-operative flour importing and baking company is threatened to be started. The bakers whosigned the agreement to raise the price have called a meeting for this evening. Taupo, Tuesday. Messrs. Mair and Booth arrived here last night to pay money to certain Raukawa natives, who are selling their Otaki lands to the Government. The natives are anxiously preparing for the Land Court, which is expected to Bit here shortly. New Plymouth, Tuesday. Major Atkinson, who has been waiting for an opportunity to get away to meet the whole of his colleagues at Wellington, could not get off to the Stella owing to the rough sea. He will remain here till the Stella returns. Very stormy weather. At the Supreme Court criminal sittings only one person was brought up for trial. C E. Meredith, late clerk to the Resident Magistrate's Court at Carlyle and Hawera, was found guilty of embezzlement, and sentenced to two years' imprisonment. The Stella is off the roadstead. Sea rough. The Taranaki passed on without communicating. A shock of earthquake was felt here at 7.20 this morning. Kumaka, Tuesday. A fire broke out at Tuball's general Btore last night. The store was entirely destroyed,

with two private houses adjoinin". The fire was prevented from spreading to the adjacent buildings by the exertions of the inhabitants. Several late members of the Greymouth and Hokitika Brigades rendered valuable assistance, there being no local brigade. Tuball is the solo sufferer, and his loss is estimated at over £2OOO. He is insured in the South British for £1250.

CHKisrcHUiiCH, Tuesday. At the Akaroa Magistrate's Court on Friday a most barefaced case cf perjury occurred. T. Adams was sued by H. G. Watkins for an account of £79 for jewellery, &c, supplied to his wife and adopted daughter. Both the latter swore distinctly they had never bought any of the goods ; Miss Hendersen.", the adopted daughter, asserting that they "hac'f been given her by a Mr. Delamaine, to whom she was formally engaged. Watkins produced several witnesses, who proved to the contrary. Ultimately Mr. Williams, counsel for defendant, said it was no use to call further evidence, as there was sufficient to show that the statements made by Mrs. Adams and by Miss Henderson were false. If the Bench would say no information would be laid for perjury, they should be re-called and would retract all they had sworn to. The Bench declined to give such assurance. Criminal proceedings have since been instituted against both the females. Ddnedi.v, Tuesday. Much dissatisfaction was expressed yesterday at the manner in which the postal arrangements iu connection with the arrival and despatch of the English and Australian mails are carried out. The inward mails were not delivered till after the box for the outward mail had been closed. The result was that, with few exceptions, merchants were unable to reply to letters received by the Eingarooma.

A rule nisi for a new trial has been granted in the case Russell v. Smythies, on the ground of misdirection by the Judge. Mrs. Scott-Siddous opened to a large audience last night.