NEW SOUTH WALES.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 8069, 2 June 1888, Page 2

NEW SOUTH WALES.

(Received June 1, 12.40 p.m.) Sydney, Friday. Admiral Fairfax, replying to the Commissioner of Customs relative to surveying the diinjjci ons currents in the vicinity of the Auckland Islands with a view to having tho charts amended, states that to undertake thu work would cost a large hum of money. A survey, lie mentions, lias already been made by the New Zealand Government, and uo representations liml been uuulu that tho currents westward are more (ban ordinarily dangerous, whiUi the Admiralty directions and charts iiro us perfect as JO ib possible to make them,

"y .. .' .(Roceived'Junel, &SJ)>nf4"!j|g:S''S« Tlie'Slipreme Court to-day deoideaithafi* ;if Chinamen' naturalised in- ' Viot&ia'H»iilcf }'■ '• : . ' only be held td> be- British snbjeofegorfar!^ as that colony was- concerned, and 'could? -fs not therefore ■ land itr New'Soutb^-WalesS -»5 without paying the poll-tex prescribed by> *; law." . ■'.■,'■'-■.'- ,;- I='.1 ='.: r '"j!; The Agent-General advises the Govern-^ ■'■;;■ raentithat he cannot- select a chief railway commissioner for the colony •'•at" th^i salary offered, and that a-considerable-advance on the suhi proposed to be; paid', will be necessary to secnre^the.Blrvicieajof?.-; a Batisf aetoiy man for the position. \t ! • ,;• (Received June 2,l.2o a.m.)"7'> ; ';.'> : '" I MrDruitt, manager of the Com merciaT Bank, Tinonee, who was eonyicted on; a.' cliarge of embezzlement,.^aa> beeif -sen 1 - i tenced to three years' imprisonment. ; " , • (Received Juno 2, iI.2S a.m.). •.',■,,:.' ■'• Messrs Lyttelton, Thomson: and Kinghave been elected directors or the Australian Mutual Provident Society; ?'• ;.. Adifficuity has arisen with regard to instttmg the New South Wales; exhibits, in Melbonrne, as none of the local offices will accept the risk. The Government •have cabled to the Agent-General tor -- ascertain on .what terms he could effect v an insurance at Home on £100,000 worth of goods. - -■■■'