LATEST TELEGRAMS. (By Electric Telegraph.) From Our Own Correspondent. LATEST FROM AUCKLAND.

Te Aroha News, Volume I, Issue 34, 26 January 1884, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS. (By Electric Telegraph.) From Our Own Correspondent. LATEST FROM AUCKLAND.

Aucklavd, Last Night. ** The Tiiupiri Coal Company's report showed a nett profit of £2062 ; h dividend of oighteenpeneo per nhare was decl'ired. The output of the mine was 18,000 tons, being; an increase of 4000 on the previous half year. The Company has secured a lease of another 32 acres of ground, which contains a large quantity of coal. Messrs Bart* tow and Win.stone were elected directors At the Board of Education mooting today a resolution was carried improving upon school committjes the importance of •lttending the householders' meetings, and declaring the desire of the Board to encourage local self-goveanment by committees. Smith and Howes tender, £787. for the Otara school, was accept i d. The police arrested a vagrant named Henry Woods on suspicion of causing a fire at Mount Ed.-n thirf morning, which destroyed four cottages. Mulcts to-day : — Wholesale : butter, fresh, B*l ; salt, Gd to <Sii ; cheese, good local, fj£d to fid ; C.inierbury ditto, Gd to 7d ; egg*, per d >//-n, ]• : bacon and ham, provincial, Gd t-» 8d ; hiin>, 8d to 9d ; honey, in bulk. 4<\. Slur 'market— Sales : Cnledo'ii.ms, IK (Id ; I'iin.je InijiL-ri il-s, 24s (>d, 24.s ; K-lli.-t •> 2f>> ; New Corby, It? fid; seller-. 2- ; X-w Find, 14s (id to 14^ 9d ; sellers, .f>^ ; Waiorongom li, K)d; Is.

('••UnMANDI.Ii, L.ist Night. Tie Junction ll.it I, Tiki, the piopeity of K 'lly, \s«i> tot illy iK'sUoncil by iiiv l;i->t niirht l)'(\veou hcven aiul ci.i, r lit d'e.dck, nothing was -i.ived ; no in.sUi.moL'. So i'.ir <i^ its kuo;\n, fie oi'igin vi' the iirtU bhruudeil in myaterv.

DtTs'nniv, L-ist Ni^lit. 17 domestics, ex. Yietuiy, ucio en^a^ed at from per f>s to los weekly, and iivo plouglmicn at por £52 to £G0 p^r annum.

A WAITOA 13'JV WINS A &UIIOLAIIThames, Lust Night. A l.ul named Parr, a sun of Mr lieu ben Purr, has gained a scholarship, having' the sixth jilaco mi tho li-^t oi! suceosl'ul ean(litltti's. The Uouid states that the omission from the list published was accidental.

THAMES MINING NKWS. Dakwin.— The Directors have instructed the manager to proceed in tlie sinking of tlic shaft, for the purpo.se of opening tip another lovol. The present 150 feet level is considered too shallow for any important discovery, and the shaft will probably bo continued another 100 feet. Work will be commenced by wages men, the Cambria Company contributing half the cost. A small i'ootwall leader in winze produced few specimens to-day. The present winze will enter the Cambria ground before the depth of the proposed new level is reached.

New Plymouth, Last Night. Heremia te Aria, who claims to be the largest owner in the block oi land at Mokim, said to have been recently leased to Mr Joshua Jones, intends to take immediate steps to prevent the working- of the coal until the question of title has been settled. With that object he will obstruct until brought before a court of law, where the matters at issue can be settled. This is the lease said to have been disposed of by Jones to an Auckland company.