TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 10012, 18 July 1879, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

WELLINGTON. July 17. Foxtnn has liecn declared a warehousoing port, and for the importation <;f in!).- 1 '. The Hon. .James William Thomson and Hon. Hone TSTaho have been sworn in as numbers of the Executive Council of New Zealand. The resignation of the Hon. Mr, Swan.sou as member of the Executive Council is gazetted. The native prisoners who were sent to Wellington from Opunake, without having been committed for trial, were tukeu before Mr. T. A. Mansrord, R. *l. ; to-day. The total number of prison*. :v was 14. Mr. Bell, Crown Prosecutor, appeared to prosecute, and 31 r. Gully defended. Five of them were charged with entering upon pi'>UL.'hitr_' land the property of ({or .Man-s:y. 'i'liev were fully pomir,;rr v '.d to sraii'.i their trial ao the next Criminal Siifinus of the Supreme Court, to be held in Wellington. Three of the above iive, with the remainder of the prisoners, were :hen charged with injuring the property of William 13aylcy. Serjeants Duncan ai d Taylor and Constable King gave evidence to the effect that they saw the natives working at the fence with hatchets, axes, and spades. Prisoners, through their counsel, reserved their defence, and were committed for trial. The natives arc a liiiG-lcukiiig lot ? and arc principally young me. They do not appear to mind being in custody. CHRISTCHURCH. July 17. It is stated on good authority that one firm will make LIOO,OOO clear profit if the depression in the English harvest continues. They have a million bushels afloat. Cable advices have been received of the sale in London by the National Bank of the Lyttelton iiarbor Board loan of L' 200,000, bearing G per cent, interest, at an average price of LlO2 7s lOd. The Cnristchurch District Drainage Board loan of LIOO.OOO, also bearing 6 per cent, interest, had been sold a few days previously at LIOG by the Bank of Sew Zealand. AUCKLAND. July 17. The Thames Harbor Board have at last, after year 3 of agitation, got the title to Thames foreshore yesterday, comprising G2O acres. The present rentals are LGOO a year. The cost to the Government extinguising the title was L 3500. The Inspectors of Sheep in the Waikato Disti'ict report that there are GO,OOO sheep in the district, and that the largest flock of a single person is in Raglan, and is 12,000. * The Board of Education refuses the terms of the City Council re improvement. The commissioners of the trust will petition Parliament, asking that no action be taken with reference to the trust, detrimental to the interests of education. NEW PLYMOUTH. July 17. A public meeting, convened by the Mayor for the purpose of giving expression to the public feeling in Taranaki towards the Volunteers of other Provinces who have offered themselves for active service, and other matters connected with the present state of affairs, was held last evening at the Freemasons' Hall. -An attempt was made by Mr. Hulke to turn it into a political meeting, but the majority declined to have anything introduced but what they had been called together for,

and, on a motion by Mr. Hulke for an adjournment of the meeting being lost, that gentleman and a few others who thought as he did left the room. Mr. D. Atkinson then moved—That this meeting desires to express its hearty thanks to the Volunteers throughout the Colony who have so gallantly offered their services on the Coast. ' Mr. Vivian seconded, and it was carried unanimously. The criminal sessions of the District Court was held this morning, when 15 native prisoners were brought up for trial. The Crown Prosecutor said he had 16 indictments against the Maori prisoners for malicious injury to property. He had also to make an application that these might be adjourned for a fortnight. He was instructed to make the application in order to allow an application to be made in the Supreme Court, at Auckland, for the change of venue of these cases to Wellington. It was desirable that all the paisoners should be tried at the same time, so as to ensure a similarity of treatment in the cases. He would therefore ask that the cases be adjourned to next sitting of the Court, to be held that day fortnight. The Judge said that being the case, there was no choice in the matter, for' he Court could not go on with the cases in the teeth of the application for change of venue. The adjournment would be granted. The Court was. then adjourned until the 31st J,u*y,