AUCKLAND.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3617, 30 July 1880, Page 2

AUCKLAND.

This day.

At the half-yearly meeting of the Taupiri Coal Mining Company the report was as follows:—•• Profit and loss account shows; a credit balance of £1,196, 6s Bd, out of which the directors recommend payment of a dividend of Is per share payable on the 15th of August. The principal work has been opening the new lower 40 feet seam, which has been done, end the solid coal is reached. In the market the coal maintains its superiority for household purposes, notwithstanding the keen competition and low prices charged for other local coals.

Alexander Martin was charged with acting as conveyancer, he not being a barrister or solicitor, at the Supreme Court. The prisoner, who was concerned in the forgery of the said deed, but had turned Queen's evidence/ pleaded guilty. He was fined £50, or one month's iiri. prisonment without hard labor.

*At the annual meeting of the Thames G.M. Company, the balance sheet shewed that the sum of £3,000 still remains at interest with, a balance of £280 in the bank. Dr Campbell was re-elected director, and Mr Buchanan auditor.