SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

Thames Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 1808, 8 May 1874, Page 3

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

(Per Anglo-Australian Press Telegraph'Agenoy.)

' • ; Auckland,' Thursday. .George Bray and his father-in-law;, while excavating gravel at' Mount Albert, were buried by a fall of stone, and both killed.—A woman fell down a well thirty feet deep .at ,'Eane's Hotel, Ereeman's Bay. Fortunately there was little water in, nnd'sho escaped with a few bruises.— The City Council:resolved to-day ;to apply to the Provincial Council for a loan of £5,000. for .paying;!andi^'jformiiig new streets and rbonsfructing. sewers.—Sharemarket.— Sales-: National Bank, 67s 6d; National Insurance,v 325: 6d; - Thamesi £3 10s; Ruby, 9s; El Dorado, 4s ;3d; j Caledonian, £11 65.; City of London, 21s 6d; Crown Prince (contributing), 20s; Red Queen/ 2s'4d; Old ;Whau, £5 10s. BuyersAlburnia (new issue), 445; Imperial.Crownf 25 s';. Otago, 13s 6d; Ruby, .8s 3d; Lincoln Castle, '4s' 6d.;,. Sellers: Windsor Castle, 4s 6d; • Sons of Freedom, £4 10s; Queen of the Thames, 5s 6(f; Italian, 2s 3d; Golden Calf, 10s; 'Union Beach, 20s ;. Coliban, lis; Cure, lis.—ln the Provincial Council to-day Mr Sheehan, stated , that 557. nominatibns for free ' passages had been received from. the Ist of J.anuary to. the, Ist of February.—ln .reply: to Mr I)arga. ville the Provincial Government were still determined to press the claim for compensation oi). account of the Auckland and; Drury Railway.—Mr Swan'gave notice! to ask when the foreshore of the Thames: Will 'be handed bver fo the Borough 1 Council. In a discission on Mr Phillips'; motion for a grant for the purchase of a stoam , fire-engine,'. Mr Swan sai^, ? , th'e •Thames. was. as 'much entitled to one as | Auckland; The motion, after l some''disi cussio'n, was : withdrawn.—George Sey-.: mour, a 'cUrk' 1 'tb 1! • ! Tinne, was brought-up at the Police; Couffc r to-day, charged 'with embezzling various sums amounting, to £423. : After the'evidence, the ease was remanded until "Wednesday.—lt is reported : that thb mineg.on;t.he,Waio-Karaka,. which, lately; applied to,the Superintendent for ; a loan! of £25,000 to test the deep levels, have arranged for a loan to that amount from, the Loan and Mercantile Agency, on. property.at ten per cent., without pledging dividends. - ' -■ U' ■;

Alexandea,-Thursday.' \There is ;a! secret meeting going on at Euiti' amongst, all the principal chiefs. None- others. are. allowed to be present, An aukati is strictly kept at Eopua, A numbers of friendlies on their way up to visit their relatives were turned back this morning. (EBOM OUE OWN COUHEBPONDENTS.) ' , Copomandel, Thursday.; ! Tlie Union Beach have a good parcel of rich specimens. taken from the stopes to-day. ;■ Taueinga, Friday. . . Owing to severe indisposition,' Mr C. 0. Davis has been compelled to ask relief from his arduous and responsible duties.',He arrived here from 'Rotorua, yesterday.,; Mr Mitchell, surveyor, accompanied him.