Telegraphic.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2791, 6 January 1888, Page 2

Telegraphic.

Auckland, January 5. , - ' The New Zealand Loan and Mer- ;.. cahtile Agency Company havo re- ' ' ceived a telegram'from their London Office that their annual report has been issued. The directors recommep^ ( a dividend and bonus equal to 15 percent, as in the previous years carry- , ing forward £15,058, the amount brought' forward from the - previous . year being £8626. The abovo figures do not include profit on the Melbourne * sale of property recently reported. • • At the Police .Court to-day, -P. Lynch, Licensee of the Greyhound Hotel, was fined £lO and costs for per- - .. mitting drunkenness on his premises. The/case arose out. of the arrest yesterday by, the police of a number of stragglers (seamen) from H.M.S Nelson. The warships Nelson, Eapid, Dia- . .mond, and Calliope,.left this afternoon at 3.30f0r Wellington, whencethey. ijp.-,. will proceed to: Sydney. H.M.S. v< . Raven sailed yesterday- for the New Hebrides to relieve 11.M.5. Swinger, which is expected to come on to Auck- -' - land.' The Robinson Crusoe—.Radiance colt, purchased by Mr D. O'Brien at the New Zealand • Stud' Company's :. p sale ; yesterday for: 280 guines, was .A/ resold to-day to W. Bobbett, of the ' Thames for ' \ " / ' GisßOßNE,;January 5. , • ... The Herald has received a cable message;from.Sydney, stating that.a:. new company is to be.formed for■ the : purpose of working the . oil in this district.