TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 5760, 15 September 1879, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(PEK PBESS AGENCY.) Gkahamstowk, Saturday. The gold from the Wairarapa lost one dwt. in melting. Its assay value is £2 18s. per ounce, or rather higher than the average value of Thames gold. Williams is satisfied. Auckland, Saturday. A Compensation Court was held in the Supreme Court to-day before Justice Gillies, Messrs. Buchanan and Ecrington being the assessors. The case before the Court was that of Thomas Young and the Public Works Department, for an alleged loss to plaintiff in consequence of taking portion of bis land for the purpose of the Puuui railway. The Court, after hearing the evidence, awarded £l7O compensation and costs, £23. The first general meeting of the Bay of Islands Steam Navigation Company was held at Kawakawa last evening. The directors’ report showed the trsde to be improving, and a dividend was declared of 10 per cent, for six mouths, equal to ‘2O per cent, per annum and £3B carried to the reserve fund. A Portugese named Balotno, who had been working as a miner, was arrested to-day on a charge of indecent assault.

Dunedin, Saturday. j The Otago D tV'J Times urges the desirable- j resaw forming a coalition Ministry under Mr. j '■'a-ai.iuw.-, such Ministry to include Messrs. Gi-b.irne, Montgomery, Hall. BaUance, and WakciieH Tiis Tims says that painful rumors are in circulati m ns to the defalcations by a solicitor, till this week coanectol with a city firm, whose liabilities are £7oOX and asset* very small, t.’layton intends attempting the feat of walking 110 mi es in 21 consecutive hours in the Garri on Hall. A school for wrestling, under the patronage of tl.%* President and several members of the Caledonian Soeie'y, is to be started by Messrs. Tiffin, Allau, and Hudson. Christ* hcrch, Saturday. Three footballers, implicated in disturbing Councillor Cass's domestic privacy, were brought up yesterday. Two were fined £1 each, the other being let off. This afternoon, Constable Neal arrested a man In Lyttelton who gave his name as John Cunningham. He is suspected to be identical with Martin Cunningham, who is supposed to have murdered a mau named Hugh Hannah, at Lake Ohau, in November, 1575. The man arrested arrived early in the morning, from the Hnraut, end is by calling a sailor. The newly-elected City Council, under the ward system, will hold their first meeting oa Monday evening. Only two members (Councillors Ayers and Gapes) of the old council have been re-elected. It is currently reported, on goad authority here, that Mr. Conyers has received positive instructions to remove at once to Dunedin. The various orders of Odd Fellows under the American constitution have appointed a reception committee to meet the Grand Master, Bro. It. S. Wheeler, aud the Grand Lodge delegates, ou Monday, who come here for the Grand Lodge session. A banquet will be given on Wednesday evening, aud an address of welcome will be presented on the opening of the Grand Lodge.