TELEGRAPHIC.

Auckland Star, Volume X, Issue 2926, 30 August 1879, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

BODY OF CAPT. MARKS FOUND.

(PER STAR SPECIAL WIRE.)

TAURANGA, this day.

The body of Hannibal Marks was found to-day floating between the two wharves. An inquest is being held over the body, after which deceased will be interred.

Political feeling is running very high, McDonald is gaining favor everywhere.

GRAHAMSTOWN,

this day.

MOANATAIKI CRUSHING.

The Moauatairi fortnightly crushing today of 270 tons resulted iv 3320zs of retorted gold.

CHRISTCHURCH,

Thursday.

SHEEP ACT. At the Waiau Court on Thursday Tinline Bros, were lined £400, under section 25 of the Sheep Act, for not having sheep branded with the letter S. THEATRICAL. The Pinafore Company are drawing large houses, and are well received. Chaplin and Rose Osborne open at the Gaiety on Monday.

WELLINGTON,

KASi XXX IMPORTS.

this day.

Captain I<\iircliild early yesterday morning sighted Turnbnll and Go's. May oil' Steven's Island from Singapore to Wellington eighty days out. She brings four hundred tonstof Kastern product*.

An outbreak of lire took place yesterday, which threatened at one time the destruction of Mount Cook prison. A cauldron of pitch, which was being boiled in a shoemaker's shop just outside the stockade, was upset, and in a moment the place was in flames. They were fortunately extinguished without much dilliculty. IMMIGRANTS.

The ship Wairoa, which left London for this port in July, brings 210 passengers, viz., 20 saloon, 30 .second cabin, mid 160 steerage. Nearly all the steerage passengers arc said to be people who bring out capital, and who intend to take up land and settle in Wellington district. WATERWORKS LOAN.

The Finance Committee of the City Council have decided to invite tenders from till the banks for the raising of a new Waterworks Loan of £130,000. INSOLVENCY. Charles Moody, Wellington, engineer, and John Smith, settler, have filed statements that they arc unable to meet their engagements.

The Committee of the Football Club will give the Wellington representative team a hearty reception on their arrival, The new "Punch 'will be published in the Grey interest. The Protestant Alliance met to-night to decide as to the candidates tho .society will support. They will represent 250 vo'es. Tlie Victoria Loftus troupe opened last night before a house filled to suffocation. Since the 27th| there has been a remarkable reading of the barometer all over the colony, being between 3070 and 30-80. The weather bus been line, the winds south-east to north-east.

E. W. Clarke, an eminent drainage engineer, has written from London to Mr Travcrs, solicitor instructing him to commence such proceedings as he may think fit in connection with the statement made by Mr Taylor to the effect that Mr Clark was acting as the paid agent of Messrs Doulton and Co.. manufacturers of drainage pipes. Messrs Doulton and Co. deny there is the slightest truth in the allogatiou. Henry Lovering, steward of the Albion. was brought up this morning charged with embezzling £2 -Is 9d. He was discharged.

An attempt was made to raise a fund to assist discharged patients after coming oi'.t of Hospital.

The returning football team wasjenthusi astically received.

niIIUSTCHUUCIT, this day.

Mr Redwood's thorough-bred Puriri was shipped for-I'ati'u for Messrs Mcßae and Nicholson, of Knkanimea.

TIMARU, this day,

SEARCH FOR BODIES.

A party of 30 to -10 men still continue at work tuunelling iv the snow for Smith's and Morrison's bodies, but so far without success. The work is one of much dancer. Cleared: Pelhatu, barque, for Melbourne, with produce, THE GRAIN MARKET, Iho grain market continues quiet. Some parcels of milling wheat have been bought at 4s, but merchants do not quote higher than 3s lOd for large-sized parcels ; oats, Is O'd to Is KM not enquired for ; barley, nothing doing. The weather is very favourable for vouns crops. LOSS OF SdEEP THIS WINTER. So fur it is known that fully 5,000 sheep have been lost in Melvenxie country, but the number will eventually prove much larger.

DUNEDIN, this day

Four insolvencies filed this week, including Fitzelnrencc and Roberts, late runholders. Liabilities, £1,565 ; assets, £2,274. One dork filed with debts £22.