LATEST TELEGRAMS. [UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

Evening Post, Volume XXII, Issue 26, 30 July 1881, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS. [UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

Chbistchubch, 291h July. The police have received orders to prosecute people catching, having in their possession, or offering for Bale, floandora or soles under nine inches long. Greab complaints are al-so made about the wholesale destruction of young fish in Lake Ellesmore Auckland, 29th July. Tho Coromandel Steamship Compaiy has declared a dividend of 20 per cent. The petition in favor of the abolition of County Councils has now obtained the signatures of the representatives of fifty-one Road Boards. The Hon. James Williamson offers the Surrey Hill estate to the City Council for .£IOO,OOO, in debentures, with the proviso that the entire estate is to bo reserved ai a public park. The Auckland Gas Company ha 3 declared a dividend of 7s 6d per share. Some share* holders spoke in favor of a farther reduotion in the price of gas from 8s 4d per thousand. Superintendent Thompson reports to the City Counoil that, owing to its defects, tae Adulteration of Food Act is largely inoperative ; also, that it is his belief that convictions for dirty and ill-drained dairies coald not be obtained under tho provisions of the Publio Health Aot. Dunedin, 29th July. Sergeant Provo, of the City Guards, will be tried by Court Martial on Wednesday, for causing a paragraph to be inserted in the Daily Times, which is considered damaging to the company. Gretmottth, This Day. James Archer, farmer, of Coal Creek Fiat, dropped dead in the street last night. At the iuqueut, a verdict of " Death from heart disease " was returned.