TELEGRAMS.

Evening Post, Volume XXIII, Issue 145, 23 June 1882, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

♦ [UNITED IRBSB ASSOCIATION.] Auckland. 22nd Juno. At the regular meeting of the Auckland Stud Company. Mr. T. Morriu presiding, the statements submitted showed a balance of £24; 700 of assets over liabilities. The Glen Orchard estate has been sold at a profit of abont iJ7OOO, and the Company had purchased one of the finest farms in the province — 600 acres — situated between Panmure and Otahnhu. A dividend of 10 per cent, was declared. Tho retiring directors— J. Bennett, S M*-rrin, and 11. Mitchelson — were re-elected. The capital of the Company haa been increased from £10,000 to ,£30,000. This Dat. The criminal calendar for the next sitting of the Supreme Court includes two persons charged with attempted murder, ono of feloniously wouading, one stabbing, one rape, one unnatural offence, five breaking aud entering, two stealing from a dwelling, one (a native) forgery and uttering, one illegal! v on premises. Ihe concert at the Newton Catholio Chun h realised J2150. A special meeting of the City Council last night recommended the Government, in the event of the suburbs j inirg the city, to form them into three wards, viz. : -No. 1, Ponsonby and Newton ; No. 2, Grafton, Eden, Terrace, Karangabape, and Arohhill ; No 3, Parnel 1 , Newmarket, and the Domain The Council also recommended that the Domain Board be abolished, and that the Domain bo placed under tho Council's control. Should these suburbs come in, the population of the city will be nearly 40,000 New Plymouth, 22nd June. Richard Henry Wilson has bean arrested at Okaiawa (Waimate Plains) for rape on a girl 17 } ears of age, named Mary Ann Butler. It is stated the crime was committed in March la-t. Rewi, who is at present at Waitara, is suffering from illness. His indisposition is caused by an old dislocvti m of the shoulder joint. He is very pouri anent the recent judgment of the Native Land Court, and he considers that tho Judges have underrated his authority when thoy stated he had no power to give away the block of land at Mokau, recently under the investigation of the Court. Tauranga, 22nd June. Not a E'ngle application was made for rural lanau at Pukeroa, on Wednesday, on deferred pay men ( s. Twelve thousand pounds was offered to the Government for 12,000 acres some twelve months ago by Mr. Vesoy Stewart, and declined. Oamaru, 22nd June. Derritt, purser of the Grafton, who fell and fractured his skull yesterday, is still alive. He recovered consciousness to-day, but has again relapsed into delirium. Napier, 2 2nd June. Tamati Tuputu, the Maoii who killed another in a fight at Awatui, on the East (,'oast, was to-day fonud guilty of manslaughter and fceotenced to seven years' penal servitude. Dunedin. 22nd June. The death is announced of Mrs. Mary Jones, relict of Thomas Jones, brother of the late John Jones, so well known in the early days of Otago as the principal merchant, shipowner, &o. Mrs. Joies «ai tho first white woman in Otago, having settled here in 1840. ihe Chamber of Committee to-day appointed the Hon. W. H. Eejnolds as its representative at the Conference proposed to be held at Wel'ington on the Bankruptcy Act. They also passed a resolution approving of ad valorem duties being levied by the Harbour Board instead of measurement duties. Ihe Seamen's Union held their first reunion at Port Chalmers last night, and it was very tuccesaful. Christchurch, 22nd June. A well-attended meeting of Italians was held to- night, Mr. A. C. Wilson, I alian Consul, in the chair, for the purpose of taking steps to provide some memorial of Garibaldi in this city. It was unanimously resolved : " That subscriptions be raised to purchase a bust of the Ute General Garibaldi, to be placed in the Museum, in hiß memory, and, to this end, the co-operation of all Palians and other sympathisers in New Zealand is requested." An influential comiMttee was appointed to collect funds, and is was resolved that an order be sent to th» Mayor of Borne, with a request that he a'locld purchase and forward the bust The Hon Mr. Richardson got a vote of thanks at his meeting in Staum> <re district to-night. Several deaths have recmtly occurred in St. Albans from diphtheria, aud fresh cases are daily reported. BennetS the levanting auctioneer, was brought before the Court to-day charged with fraudulent bankruptcy, and remanded, bail being allowed. The lecal option poll at Lyttelton was against the increase of aDy licenses. In this and some other districts the Licensing Committees have met before the poll has been taken, which action has raised a quetion, in one instance at least, as to the legality of the proceed ngsA resident of Methven, Rafeaia district, named Anderson, who was out pig-hunting in the beginning of the week, fell down a Beep declivity, and the phock st>emed to affect Ms head. A friend who was with him went for assistance, and when he returned Anderson had disappeared, ard has not since be°n found. It is feared that he got into the river, which was in flood at the time. This Day. Ihe body of a woman, about 40, was found

this morning floating in the Avon. It has not yet been identified. i he general meeting of the New Zealand Shipping Company this m rning unanimously confirmed th 3 resolution r« the increase of capital. Invkbcargtll, 22nd June. In the Supreme Court to-d»y, Angus Jiuir, a lad of 15 yearg, charged with assault with intent on a mir?dle-&ged married woman residing near Kdondale, was found " Not Guilty " The charge against Mr Dar>M, M.H.8., cornea on tc-morrow morning. Mr. Stout will oonduot the defenoe, and the Crown Prosecutor, with him Mr. Wade, the prosecution. Balcltjtha, This Djfc' A petition to Parliament is being signed by the sufferors by the Kaitangata disaster, praying for an enquiry into the administration of the Relief .Fund.