Telegraphic.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3342, 23 October 1889, Page 2

Telegraphic.

The Purchase oi EotoruaAuckland, October 22, Tho purchase money from the sale of the Hotorua township lias been set aside by the Natives, and in most cases banked. The town is most orderly and quiet. The Price of Meat. Auckland, October 22. Some dissatisfaction has existed fors some time between the local retail butchers and tho New Zealand Frozen Meat and Storage Company as to the price of meat. At a meeting of butchers, it was agreed that the prices were too high, and negotiations are to bo undertaken between the parties,

MINING. Auckland, October 22. A prospector's claim of sixty acres at the Puhipulii silver hold was taken up to-day by E. Smith on behalf of tho company, There have already been several applications for other claims. Mr Gordon, mining inspector, returned from Puhipulii to-day. He says he is much pleased with (lie appearance of the reofs, which are well defined and open up over a radius of five miles.

Jubilee Carnival Auckland, October 22. The total sum promised and given in money and trophies on behalf ol the Jubilee carnival already amounts to £BG4. A committee has now been appointed to canvass.

Ininiipuig a Patent. Auckland, October 22, Willi regard to the cable message rom Melbourne in reference to Pond's butter boxes, Mr Pond, of the firm of Pond and Go,, the proprietors of the patent, says be lias had no communication at all with Mr Dow, Minister of Agriculture, upon the subject. Mr Pond considers that if tho Government of Victoria take advantage of tho invention in the way stated, such a stop will be unjust,us a Government should not commit an act for which he could get an injunction in the case ol a private individual.

New Plymouth. Harbour. New Plymouth, Wednesday, At a meeting of tlio Harbor Board tp-day, a report on tlio New Plymouth Harbour, signed by Sir John Coode and Mr J. Blaokott, was read, Sir John Coode thinks tlmt tlio sand has not been drifting and that some of the differences which have been attributed to the deposit ol sand are due to discrepancies in soundings which are to some extent inevitable when fixing the position of isolated depths over such a large area as that of original surveys, and therefore recommend the sand to be dredged out by a hopper dredge, similar to those extensively used in Holland and some of the French ports. A plant, he says, could be placed at new Plymouth, ready for work for about 111,000, and the cost of working would bo about 14,500 a year. Coode recommends the employment of this dredge, qs he is spre that gatisfjiqtoiiy results pan he confidently looked for, This would bo the means of affording accommodation for vessels that trade in New Zealand.