LATEST TELEGRAMS [UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

Evening Post, Volume XXI, Issue 56, 9 March 1881, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS [UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

Auckland, Bth March. The Grammar School enquiry continues. The evidence of the Rev. Mr. Gulliver, one of the masters, was strongly adverse to the existing organisation and efficiency of the school. Mr. BrSs t chief postmaster, also ga^e adverse testimony. Ten thousand ponnda on account of the Property Tax was received yesterday and to-day. . Several boys of the Naval Training School stole a punt and are missing. Ihe police are searching for the lads. The Harbor Board has ordered an account for the damage to the wharf caused by the 8.8. Tararua to be sent to tho Union Steamship Company. Dunedin, Bth March. At a special meeting of the Frozen Meat Export Company held to-day, Mr. M'Queen, who had charge of the fitting up of the Protos, wa3 present, and stated there was no doubt whatever abput the success of the shipment. Subscriptions are, however, coming in very slowly. Over 700 payments of the Property Tax were made in Dunedin to-day. T«vo of the Boondoora yearlings — Lurline colt and Coquette— will be sent back to Melbourne, having been sold there for 500 guineas each. Timaru, Bth March. The Farmers' Co-operation Association is making rapid headway in this district. One vessel to load direct for home from Timaru is already on the berth, and others will follow. The South Canterbury Acclimatisation Society have authorised certain persons to net in two rivers of the district, with the object of determining the existence of Californian salmon in the waters. This Day. Harvest hands are pouring into town from the country. The news from Australia concerning the new rushes is creating great excitement, and a large number are leaving by sailing vessel for Newcastle and Sydney. Seventeen passengers have just left by the Annie Bow, and fully double that number leave to-day by the George Noble. The steamer Taiaroa was crowded fore and aft last evening with passengers for Dnnedin, en route for the Australian diggings. The exodus is viewed with alarm and regret Christchurch, Bth March. A delegate is at present in Christchurch on a tour of inspection for Yorkshire farmers, on a similar mission to that undertaken by Messrs. Grant and Foster, on behalf of the Lincolnshire men. His name is Herring O'Connor. He will leave Chrißtchurch on 26th March, to inspect Messrs. Thornton and Brown's West Coast route. A meeting was held to-day in reference to the reception of the Governor. Two or three schemes were proposed, and it was decided to give a public dinner. One gentleman told the Mayor (Mr Gapes) plainly that, a3 he had a salary of .£3uO a year to sustain his dignity, he ought to have provided a dinner himself instead of leaving others to decide. Nelson, This Day. The criminal sittings of the District Court commenced yesterday, and terminated about one o'clock this morning. William Morton, charged with maliciously wounding, was sentenced to a month's hard labour, and ordered to find sureties for three months. Joseph Busch, charged with perjury, was discharged, the jury returning a verdict of not guilty, after being locked-up for three and a-half hours. Captain Evans, of the steamer Wakatu, reports sighting the barque Glaucis off Stephen's Island yesterday. The barque wished to be reported all well. She appeared to be going south, and ia probably bound for Lyttelton. The wind was blowing strong from the south-east when she was sighted.