TELEGRAMS.

Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 3958, 7 April 1883, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

{FKOM OUR OWN COERESPOHDENT.)

TAUKANGA, this day. ' . The Mayoral election is proceeding, littlo or no interest being evinced, as per usual, here lately.

THAMES, this day.

A Druid's lodgo, with over 40 members, was opened here last night with every success by Bro. Walter Bishop, District President of the North Island. Another lodgo is to be opened by him in Tauranga on Tuesday next. , Sharemarket, 12.30 p.m. : Southern Cross—sale last night 6s, sellers 6s ; London last night 3iGd; Mariner, sellers 5s fid -'imperial, 59j, sellers 60s, buyers 58a 6d; Queen of JtScauty, last night 295; Manakaa, 2s Bd. The Imperial rcoE-at No. 5 level, East drivf, is about tho sapm size as before, It was broken down ycttorlay.

COKOMrtNDEL, this day. . SUCCESS.—TweIve pounds of rich specimen stone came f om the stope t;oing south on the main reef. .This is encouraging news for the shareholders, inasmuch as the dividend patch came from the north sido. The Colonial and Queen of England arc d» at work. The Detached Squadron is starting again. 1 Tbe Tokatea has ISOlbs of pickod stone for the week's work.

NAPiEB, this day, TOTAIISATOIi CASE.

JI>ER FKESS ASSOCIATION]

. In tließ.M. Court to-day, McGuirc sued fcohen, oil the totalisator, for £3 dividend on a.raco at the last Jockey Club meeting, whicb plaintiff neglected to apply for till next daf. Payment was refused on several grounds, the principal of which Deing that the ticket was not pres«nted immediately after tho race. Counsel for the defendant pleaded that the Jockey Ciub should have been sued. Judgment Was given for defendant for cost?, on apoint of law that Coheu was^miplnyed by the Jockey Club, and therefore not liable. Cohen, bad the outside totalisator. '

CHRISTCHUKCH, this day,

Mr G. Wi Lee, an old colonist, and the dwnor of Emir Bey and other racehorses, died suddenly at Oxford yesterday. Mr J, B. Stout, of Lyttelton, one of the Canterbury Pilgrims, died yesterday. At the K.M. <^outt to-day, a woman named Elizabeth Johnstene was committed for trial for robbing George Mitchell of £11 in a house of ill fame on March 30th.

INVBRCARGILL. this day.

A cowshed and stables on tho farm of BJ Andrews, near Winton, was burnt down this morning. The horse, harncs?, and a quantity of grain was destroyed. It is estimated that the total loss is over £200. There is no insurance.