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At a recent meeting of the Foxton Harbor Board it was resolved that the chairman be requested to write to the Minister for Public Works, asking the Government to . report on the Paxton wharf and harbor accommodation, regarding the present as well as the future re-, quiremonts of the port. The time for the reception of tenders for the - Foxton wharf extension has been altered from tho 25th of May to Saturday, the Ist of June,

The Court of Appeal will sit at half-past ten o’clock on Friday to deliver judgments. The monthly meeting of the Education Board will bo held this morning.

Mr. Turnbull invites tenders for alterations to . the Mercantile Loan Agency's buildings, Custom-House-quay.

Two hundred shares in the Phoenix.Coldmining Company are advertised for sale at noon to-day by Messrs. Beauchamp, Campbell, 1 and Co.

Tenders ; are invited by Mr. J. R. George engineer, up to the 3rd June, for the erection and extension of the offices of the "Wellington Gas Company. The lad J. Smith, charged with burglary, was again brought before the Resident Magistrate’s Court yesterday, and further remanded until Monday next. . A'committee meeting of the Licensed Vic-' tuallers' Association took place last night, to consider the passing of the by-laws of the association. As, however, these! rules had not been printed, nothing was done in the matter.

, In our commercial columns will be found a report of Messrs. Harris Bros.’ recent land sale at Marton, Rangitikei. The auctioneers inform us that every section was disposed of, and many of them have since ! changed hands at prices in advance of those realised at the sale referred to. , .

The following figures show how rapidly tho nice of . land has increased in Manners-street ately:—ln September last Mr. Madden bought 62£t. 6in. frontage at £32 10s. per foot, and yesterday he completed a sale of the lot at £6O a foot, an increase of £27 10s. per foot in eight months.

An old resident of Wellington, named Charles : Meadows, between fifty and sixty years of age, was found dead yesterday. As Mr. Gebbie was going to his home at half-past eight o’clock in the evening, he found the unfortunate man at the foot of the steps leading up to Flagstaff Hill. The deceased was conveyed to the morgue, where a post mortem, examination will probably take place to-day. In the Court of Appeal yesterday, the Attorney-General remarked that it had not been the practice to report Crown cases reserved to the Crown Law Officers. The result was that in some instances there had been no appearance on behalf of the Crown. In future this, would be remedied, for he had given instructions that all Crown cases reserved should be reported to the Solicitor-General’s office, so that the Crown might be represented at the Appeal Court. The Choral Society’s band met last night in force, and had a very satisfactory rehearsal for the forthcoming concert, to be given to subscribers some time during next mouth. The overture and accompaniments to some of the choruses to “ Masanielio,” which is to form the main portion of the concert, were given with very great spirit; also, “Pot Pourrie” (from “ Zampa”), which is intended .to bo given at the same time. “The Octoroon” constituted the performance at the Theatre Royal last night, and was played to a very fair house. Wahnotee was taken by Mr. Walton, who on several occasions was loudly applauded. Miss Marion Willis played Zoe, the Octoroon, very effectively. Paul was very nicely played by Miss May Bell. The rest of the characters were well sustained by the other members of the company. To-night “ Dead Men’s Shoes” and “ Nan the Good for Nothing” are announced. Mr. Clark, 0.E., proceeds North by the Taupo to-day, and intends to pay a visit to the Lake country. He will land at Tauranga, and after spending some time at the Hot Lakes, will go on to Auckland. The report on the city water supply has not yet been completed, and information still required will be sent to, Auckland, from which place Mr. Clark will report to the Wellington City Council.

Coals are very scarce in Wellington at present, and yesterday afternoon an order for one ton sent to several merchants could not be executed. At last a firm was found who could give half a ton, and this was gladly accepted. It is to he hoped that some Newcastle colliers, will arrive shortly, : or great inconvenience must ensue. It will be well when we can rely upon constant supplies from our own mines at the Grey, Westport, and West Wanganui. Among the ooal-ladeu vessels overdue is the Shepherdess, with a cargo of West Wanganui coal, which comes to Mr. E. W. Mills.,

A local auctioneer at Oamaru, named Greenfield, has been fined in the sum of £SO for a breach of the Licensed Auctioneers Ordinance. Tho offence, which consisted in sell-; ing after 9 p.ra., was admitted ; but Mr. Greenfield pleaded that he had always been under the impression that it was allowable to sell up to 10 o’clock, but a copy of the Ordi*. nance had never been procurable in Oamaru. Mr. Parker, R.M., said the Ordinance‘gave him no discretionary power whatever. The penalty was set down at £SO, and he had no power either to remit or reduce it. He would, however, recommend Mr. Greenfield to draw up a memorial to the Governor praying for a remission of the fine, setting forth the facts of the case, and he (the Magistrate) would gladly forward it to the proper quarter.

Mr. Duncan holds a large sale of landed property to-morrow, commencing at 2 o’clock. The first lot offered will be two town acres,

with a nine-roomed house erected thereon ;

after which, at half-past 2, he will sell the leases of nine dwelling-houses, for 38 years, on very easy terms; then"several valuable sections at Kilbirnie and at Neivtbwn. At 3 o’clock he will dispose of 8518 acres at'Akiteo, on most liberal terms ; following which will be sold, without reserve, 332 J acres atFitzherberton, and, by order of Captain Stafford, 163 acres in same township.

Mr. Hesford, who has been known for many years by the theatre-going portion of the New Zealand public as a painstaking and clever actor, will take his benefit on Thursday evening, under the patronage and in the presence of the district officers and _ members of the Loyal Britannia and Antipodean Lodges, 1.0.0. F., M.U. Tho; performance will commence with “Ten Nights; inMßar-room,” followed by a terpsichoreau interlude, and to conclude with “ The Spitfire.”

We (says the Hangitikd Advocate, of 27th instant) are glad to learn, on reliable authority, that the wheat and oat crops in the Sandou and Carnarvon districts have produced fully one-third more than was generally anticipated, and that the average will be from 45 to 50 bushels per acre. It is also gratifying to learn that a much greater breadth of ground will be broken up this year than last—from twice to three times as much. Not having tho full details, wo arc unable to state the relative proportions exactly, but from the information we have received wo incline to the opinion that tho land to be placed under crop this year will be nearly, if not fully, three times that of last year. With such a great increase in the pro. duoing area a proportionately greater number of harvesting machines and threshing machines will be required, and it is satisfactory to know that steps have been taken by several of the settlers to meet this increased demand for labor-saving machinery. We must congratulate the agriculturists of those districts on their present prospects, whieh certainly never looked brighter.

From meteorological observations recorded In Marton during the past week, the Advocate learns that the barometer was pretty steady after Monday, when it stood at 2973 ; the thermometer ranged low, the maximum" readings registering from 47 to 55, and tho minimum from 29 to 37- Rain, fell on four days, but only to the extant in the aggregate of "19 inch. The wind, which was moderate, was from the north in the early portion of tho week, and from the south-east during the last three days. The weather generally was fine, with frosty nights.

“ The old hippopotamus at the Zoological Gardens died on March 11. * Obaysch,’ ” the Pall Mall Gazette eays,_ “was bora in the

White Nile, in the spring of 1849, and was captured when about three days old by a party of hunters sent out by Abbas Pasha, when Viceroy of Egypt. Prom the White Nile bo was conveyed to Cairo, where ho passed the winter in a tank specially built for him within the British Agency, and arrived in London on May 25, 1850. In 1863 Iris mate Adhela was brought from Egypt; but though several infant hippos were the result of this union, only one of them lived to attain maturity—a female, born on Guy Fawkes Day, 1872, and now living in the Gardens." The Southland Times states that tho recent floods have drowned an immense number of rabbits. Their destruction will not be regarded as a calamity in localities where these animals are so plentiful to be a nuisance. Tho pheasants appear to have developed a new taste. Wo (N.Z. Herald) ate credibly informed, by more than one suffering ‘ agricul. turist, that recently they have been repeatedly seen to scratch up, pick to pieces, and eat both potatoes and maugolds'soou after planting.

The Southland Times states that the youth known as the “ Australian Blondin ” has taken up his residence in the WaiHwi Bush, -where ho has been practising very hard since his-last appearance in public, with a view to future performances. “It has transpired,” the Sydney Evening News says, - “ that the contractors for the Great Southern railway from Cbotatuundra to -Wagga Wagga, having failed to complete their contract for the construction of the Hue to the latter place by the 31st December last, aro now incurring heavy penalties, which the Government are strictly enforcing. -Messrs." Amos Brothers are to be sympathised with to some extent, for they have had to encounter very serious unforeseen difficulties in obtaining labor and material. On the other hand, it is asserted that the Government are also losing the interest on the large amount of money already advanced for the construction of the line, which is of course yielding no return, nor can it until opened. The fines if the line is not- opened before October will, at the fixed rate of £2OO per week, amount to over £7OOO. The contractor, Mr. Wakeford (of the Great Northern line to -Tamworth) is in a similar predicament. His contract was to have been completed In September last, and there is little prospect of its being opened before August, so that the fines will amount to about £IO,OOO in his case. Mr. Wakeford has also had-to encounter great difficulties. The strong, complaints made in Parliament against the delays which have occurred in every instance, excepting one, in completing railway contracts in New Sonth Wales, have no doubt determined Mr. Sutherland and his predecessor, Mr. Lackey, to enforce the penalties.”

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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5357, 29 May 1878, Page 2

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Untitled New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5357, 29 May 1878, Page 2

Untitled New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5357, 29 May 1878, Page 2

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