SOUTHERN TELEGRAMS.

Thames Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 1884, 2 November 1874, Page 3

SOUTHERN TELEGRAMS.

(Per Anglo-Australian Telegraph Press Ageucy.) Wellington, Saturday, 5.1 p.m. Shares in the New Zealand Times are offered at 7s discount, 15s paid up.—A line of Hennessy's bulk brandy; : has been quitted at 93 8d per case. It is freely offered at 50s to 54s duty paid —A preliminary prospectus is in circulation of a joint stock company for the purchase* of the Thornton foreshore, which the con. tractor is now engaged in reclaiming. Lyttelton, Saturday, 5.1 p.m. Cleared: The barquentine ' Prince Alfred,' for Auckland, with four tanks malt, 53 cases hams and bacon, 19 cases meats, 500 sacks wheat, 25 sacks sharps, 250 sacks malt, and 14 tons flour. Eunedin, Saturday, 5.1 p.m. Papapa is being backed heavily for the Melbourne Cup.—ln banco, Judge Chapman has given an important decision re G. M. Bell and Wentworth, who in June lodged applications with the Southland Land Board for land at 20s per acre, the day before the proclamation increasing tho price of the land to £3 an acre was gazetted. The Judge holds that they are entitled to the land, but leave to appeal against the judgment has been granted. If the decision is upheld, it means a loss of £20,000 to the province. -Henry Bedford, the celebrated Yictorian pedestrian, was charged at the Magistrate's Court 10-day with forgery at Sandhurst, and remanded to Victoria.—An unusually large number of deaths have been registered this month -large proportion from measles and bronchitis.