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Bay of Plenty Times, Issue XX, 17 June 1892, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

Value of Auckland properly, flic valuers differ. Auckland, Thursday. — Some irtercsting evidence was given at tie nesting of the $oard °E Renew under the Land and lucome Tax Act yesterday, regarding the value of property in Qnoen St. The Union Bank objected to the Gorerument valuation of the Bank building and kr.d at the corner of Victoria and Queen Sta., which Consists of 80 feet by 1 15, and had been valued by the Government Valuer at •-*■ £170 per foot of frontage to Queejn St, or £22,500 in all, includiug buildings. The Banks valuation was £8,700 for buildings and £3,900 for land. Edwio Heaketh appeared tor the > Bauk and Mr Thomson, manager,; gave evidence to the effect that tft©l land is worth £110 a foot, but iuf answer to Mr Croinbie, Commissioner! of Taxes, he admitted he did nofcf know auy property in Queeu St. which f could be had at that price. W. S. Cochrane deposed that he valued the land at £125 per foot. Ewingfcon estimated the value of 33 feet next to Victoria St at £150 * and auother portion at £100. He stated that although sales had been effected within the last few years at higher prices, the value of property wag less than in 1888. Shops which let for £7 103 a week, three or four years og<\ only fetched 80s now. Barltley, tin Government Assessor, , stated that he considered £170 per foot a fair valuation. Eraser, another of the Government Valuers thought it worth £175, and considered the value of land in Queen St. higher now than in 1888, and it was in better demand. After a consul a tion ih) Board sustained the Government valuation. Publicans licenses refused. ; Auckland, Thursday. have been refused for the Pacific and Provincial Hotels. Heavy weather at sea* Auckland, Friday.— The schooner Annie fliJl, whilst on her passage from Lyttletou to this port, met with a very heavy gale in which the vessel sustained considerable damage and the mate suffered some injuries by being swept along the deck by a sea which broke on board. liurcenj as a bailee. Auckland, Friday.—^At the Police Court yesterday morning, Albert Tate. conductor of a tramcav, was sentenced to 7 days imprisonment for larceny a3 a bailee of a purse and 18a; \ which had been left in the car. ; § Kauri guni tuaricet. Auckland, Friday. — Ordinary, £46; poor ordinary, £32 to £40; East Coast, £75 to £76. Supplies from Ist instant to date 300 tons. Oltura settlement meeting. Auckland, Friday. — At the meeting to be held this afternoon re the Ohura Special Settlements, it is proposed to a?k the meeting to take the whole management off the hands of the Kailway League, and vest it in a committee to be elected from the large number of those who have, signified their intention to become settlers at Ohura. Indecent assault. , Whangarei, Thursday. — John Berquist, of Kamo, an elderly man, has been committed by the Whangarti Bench to take his trial at next sessions of the Supreme Court on a charge of indecent assault upon a child of tender years. The Ekctsiliuiia murder. Prisoners acquitted Wellington, Thursday. — The charge preferred against Charles Smith, of murdering «fohn Balton at Eketahuna, in February last r"as continued in the Wellington Supreme Court yesterday, the jury returned after an absence of an hour and ten minutes with a verdict of 'Not Guilty' and Smith was discharged. The Crown Prosecutor said in view of the fact that this was the th'rd trial he proposed to enter a nolle prosequi against Harrison, the other prisoner. Coats, Harrison's counsel, said he preferred to have a verdict of acquittal, and Mr Q-ully assenting, the same jury was empannelled and formally acquitted Harrison. There was some slight applause in Court at the verdict. :

Birds of passage. Wellington', Friday. — Arrivals in the Colony during May' were 1075, and departures 1023. The bulk of tba people, as usual, Cime from, or went to Victoria and tfew South Wales. mysterious death. Hokitika., Thursday. — John Conlon, a young married man, died rather suddenly at Kurnara on Tuesday. Dra Miles and Millington held a examination yesterday and at the inquest to day declared their inability to state the cause of death. The police are retaining th 3 inter* nal organs for analysis. Conlon died in violent internal pains and suffered great agony.

H. M. S. UOLDFINOtf. In view of the probable visit of i his min-o'-war, the following put ticulars about her will be read wilh interest. She w an unnrmoured gunboat ( composite hull) of 8l)5 tons, with an indicated hcr.se power of 120 J. She can si.eatn 13 knota when required. She is 16oft long, with a beam of 31ft. Her aimament consastd of *>ix 1 in 2>owfc breechloading guns, two three-pounder quick-firing and two machine guos. The officers are : — Commander, 11. It. P. Hoyd : navigating lieutenant, It. "W. Johnson ; sub- lieutenant, Alexander tf'arintoa ; surgeon, William H vckelt, M.D.; ass fitait-p^y-mister-i^-char^j, riics. Cloveland ; eoginejr, Georgi tt.* JElwards; guiaitr, H. H, Soinsbury. |Sh« cu&iQi 73 men a]] (old,