TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 5043, 23 May 1877, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(PEK PIIESS AGENCY.) Auckland, Tuesday. The Auckland bakers have determined to sell bread at fourpeuce. Te Patui will be executed at eight o’clock to-morrow. The clergymen have been assiduous.

Mercury Bay, Whaugapoua, and Tairna will petition the Government to be formed into a new county. The Harbor Board met to-day to consider the question of deepening the new dock three feet beyond the present depth. Mr. Masefield stated that the lowest depth obtained in the present dock was eight feet three inches, the highest between fifteen and sixteen feet, the average at high water thirteen feet. Mr. Erriugton, the engineer, stated he could deepen the dock for £5591, and the channel for £2115. Seven voted in favor of deepening the dock, and an equal number, including the chairman, against it. The chairman gave his casting vote against the motion. Moanataiari—Buyers, £l2 155.; sellers, £l3. The bai*que Pleiades, from Wellington to Newcastle, had a rough passage. During a heavy gale the sea broke over her, straining her seriously. A man fell overboard, but was picked up. Grahamstown, Tuesday. A private letter received here from San Francisco says they are having bad times of it there, owing to the failure of the crops in the southern portion of the State and depreciation of stocks, by which every second man will be ruined, and advises people who are making bread and butter in New Zealand to remain. Greymouth, Tuesday. The Energetic crushing for five week gave 9210z5. 7dwts. melted gold. A dividend of Gs. per scrip has been declared. Dunedin, Tuesday. The inquest on the body of Margaret Mclntyre was continued to-day. One witness swore to having seen Mrs. Reid knock her down three weeks ago on the verandah, and then drag her into the house by the hair. The inquest was adjourned till Friday. Government has informed Archdeacon Edwards that it cannot meet his views in regard' to the continuance of the services of the gaol chaplain at Dunedin. Christchurch, Tuesday. The City Council has decided to invite the co-operation of all the municipal bodies in the colony in arranging a meeting of delegates at Wellington, to discuss the reduction of municipal subsidies by the Government, and to take such action thereon as deemed most expedient. The foundation stone of the new public buildings will be laid by the Hon. E. Richardson, late Minister for Public Works, on the Queen’s Birthday. At a meeting of the shareholders of the Canterbury Spinning and Weaving Company to-day it was unanimously resolved to wind up the affair.

The Governor will be in Canterbury on the sth of June.