TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5495, 6 November 1878, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(FROM a CORRESPONDENT.) Dunedin, Tuesday. The Daily Times call of £2 per share is now duo. An intimation has been made by the managing director to-day informing shareholders that interest at the rate of twelve aud a-half per cent, is being charged upon all calls n ;t paid. (FEB PRESS AGENCY.) Auckland, Tuesday. A monster claimant has arrived here from California. He says he was here 35 years ago. He claims a large amount of suburb ui property, including the city waterworks and part of the Surrey Hill estate, lb is supposed to bo an old native claim. The secretary of the Acclimatisation Society reports that 30C0 brown trout, received from Otago, are in a very bad condition, SO per cent, being of no use. *Two white swan* applied for by Taranaki were granted ; also two rooks for Mi*. Waterhouse, of Wellington. The floral service in connection with the Wesleyan Church was a great success. All the children brought bouquets to the afternoon service. The flowers were forwarded .to the hospital. Dr. Wallis contests a seat for the Edeu Council with Suiter, the brewer.

A boat capsized in the harbor aud three young men were thrown into the water, but were saved by a passing boat. Seymour George has gone to Kawau to arrange for the , arrival of Sir George Grey, who is expected there on Sunday, without calling at Auckland on his way. The Free Templars are establishing a good library. In the first two thousand guinea sweepstakes for the Melbourne Cup a Maori iu Kaipara won tbe first prize of £7OO ; tbe manager of tho clothing factory second prize. In the second two thousand guinea sweepstakes Kelly, an express driver, won the first prize of £7OO ; Miss Johnstone, of the Bay of Islands, won the second prize of £4OO. A motion of the Harbor Board to give the Bank of New Zealand notice of termination of account, for tho purpose of calling for tenders, was defeated.

A leak iu the dock prevents its being taken over from the contractors by the Harbor Board, although vessels are constantly being taken in. The matter threatens litigation. S. Bates, connected with the Telegraph Department, sustained severe injuries by falling from the roof of the Bank of Australasia into the right-of-way between that building and the premises occupied by Howdon, the jeweller. The unfortunate man fell from a height of over thirty feet, sustaining severe, injuries on the left side of his head ; he was removed insensible. Concussion of the brain is feared. The full shock of the fall was partly broken by contact with the wall on the west side. Greytown, Tuesday. The Hou. G. M. Waterhouse has forwarded a cheque for £46 to the Greytown Institute, for tbe purchase of books. This sum is a third of liis honorarium which he has always distributed in this way. He also scat £5 to the Working Men’s Club. Hokitika, Tuesday. It has been raining heavily for the past two days, aud the rivers arc again flooded. No communication by sea or by laud. , • Dunedin, Tuesday. Messrs. Kemptborne, Prosser, and Co.’s, drug business has been turned into a joint stock company, with a capital of £200,000, iu 100.000 shares of £2 each. The firm take up 25.000 shares. The subscription lists in aid of the sufferers by the recent floods are closed. The total amount collected is £2165. A company is about to be formed to establish tramway communication along the peninsula side of the harbor. At a meeting of the Council to-day Hawkins and Morris forwarded an account for one hundred guineas each for inspecting the Corporation books and reporting thereon. Specifications were submitted for saltwater baths at the Ocean Beach. A yeung lady named Dunbar, resident at Palmerston, sustained concussion of tho brain through jumping off a train while it was iu motion.