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CHRISTCHURCH May 4.

Export prices, f.o.b. :— Wheat, from 4s 6d upwards, firm ; oats, 2s 6d to 2s 8d ; barley, 3s 6d to to 4s, demand dull; potatoes, £3 ; flour, £16 to £17 ; bran and sharps, i' 4 10s to £5 10s respectively ; cheese, 9d ; butter, Is. Shipments of wheat to England and Australia heavy. Further information respecting Turner, the man who was gored by a bull, shows that his right jaw and portions of his palate and nose have been torn completely away, and were found lying on the ground. The right eye was also forced out, and the left eye injured. The bull was up to this time a very quiet one. Turner is fiftyfive years of age, and is still alive, but there is very little hope of his recovery. The Christchurch police have been sworn in under the Armed Constabulary Act. * CHRISTCHURCH, May 5. At a meeting of discharged Provincial Government officers, it was resolved, " That this meeting being dissatisfied with the present action of the Colonial Government in withholding the compensation granted to discharged civil servants under the Abolition of the Provinces Act, resolves, by every legal and constitutional means, to assert, and if necessary, to enforce its claims. ' ' An association was then formed to cany out the resolution in the best manner possible. DUNEDIN, May 4. Mr Bradshaw reports— Colonial Bank, 40s ; National Insurance, 30s Gd to 31s ; National Bank, G7s ; South British Insurance, 75s ; New Zealand Insurance, 92s 6d ; Standard, 15s ; Otago and Southland Investment, 25s ; New Zealand Loan and Mercantile (new issue), 50s ; prime wheat quoted at 5s 3d to 5s 6d ; good (ordinary), 5s ; inferior, 4s to 4s 6d ; oats, unchanged ; barley offering freely, and almost unsaleable, prime qualities 4s 9d to ss. Sergt. Fail', clerk in the Police Commissioner's Office, is about to proceed to Wellington to edit a Police Gazette to be published there. The manager of the Bank of New Zealand has offered to negotiate the balance of the Harbor Board loan, £120,602, and place extended facilities for financial arrangements, at the disposal of the board. The offer has been referred to the Finance Committee. The rush which lately took place at Taieri is now all over and the ground is abandoned. DUNEDIN, Mayo. The sum of £650 has been promised towards the funds of the Sailors' Home. The building committee expect to raise £1500. An influential deputation from the Chamber of Commerce waited upon Mr M'Lean to-day, and stated that it had been felt for some time past that the Government were not pushing on the railway lines, so far as Otago was concorned. Mr M'Lean replied that, with regard to those lines which required only the permanent way to be laid, on which a large amount of money had been spent, the Government were just as anxious as the deputation to get them completed. There was no justification for the statement that the Northern line was not being pushed forward. The delay in connection with the Southern lines was consequent upon the Waitepeka deviation, but as money was not plentiful, and as the credit of New Zealand was not in such a comfortable position as they could wish it to be, it was the desire of the Government to work matters in such a way as to raise the credit of the colony again by showing that our railways so far, were reproductive, and by keeping out of the money market for a little time. With that desire, the Government had made arrangements in Sydney for getting money for some time to come, and the works referred to by the deputation would be proceeded with at a reasonable rate, and consistently with doing justice to every part of the colony. The deputa--tion then discussed the dock question, and a counter-deputation also explained their views on the matter. Mr M'Lean, in effect, replied that it was for the Harbor Board to decide as to the site of docks, and of the railway station. Mr M'Lean leaves Dunedin to-ni^ht. GRAHAMSTOWN, May 4. The Harbor Board on Wednesday night decided to take over the management on the terms stated by Mr Whi taker. The Waitekauri return for a month's crushing is 130 ounces. The Moanatairi mine is improving, and gold is cuining on in the winze. GRAHAMSTOWN, May 5. Tutukina and other natives have destroyed part of the road lately made by the County Council. Another lot of natives exacted payment • of £5 from Wm, Kelly, who was driving cattle through. KUMARA, May 4. The new rush on the north side of the Teremakau is attracting a deal of attention throughout the district. About 700 people are on the ground. The country is pegged off" on all sides for a considerable distance, and it is reported already that twenty parties are on pabable gold. 300 to 400 persons cross and recross the river daily from Kumara. Strong dissatisfaction is expressed at the delay and expense of tolls for crossing the river by the punt. Last night a public meeting was held, when it was unanimously resolved that the County Councils of Greymouth and Hokitika be petitioned to construct a bridge over the Teremakau, and in the meantime purchase a punt and throw open the ferry free to the public. PORT CHALMERS, May 4. Arrived — Ship Hoogley, 102 days from London, with 13 passengers, and 2500 tons cargo. On April 11, Frederick Wortham, seaman, while furling the upper topsail, fell overboard. There was a heavy gale on at the time, with a terrific sea, and it was impossible to make any effort to save him. WELLINGTON, May 4. Mr O'Shea reports produce prices as follows -.—Flour, £1G 10s to £17 10s for colonial, best ; Adelaide, none : bran, Is to Is Id ; wheat, chick, 4s to 4s Gd ; hams and bacon, 9kl to lOd ; cheese, 7-id to 8d; potatoes, 80s~to 85s ; Maize, 5s 6d," scarce ; pollard, Bs. Tiie Gazette to-day notifies the appointment of Theoph. Heale, Esq., as Judge of the Native Land Court.

I WELLINGTON, May 5. In a bankruptcy case this morning the Chief Justice gave a rather important decision. It appears that a person named Poll commenced an action against the debtor for damages for injuries received through the debtor's negligence, and in January last had a verdict in his favor for £270. The defendant subsequently obtained a rule nisi for a new trial, which rule was not discharged till a few days after the date of the filing of a deed of arrangement between the defendant and his creditors. There had been no entry or signing of judgment prior to the date of this deed, and there has been none since. Poll attacked the deed of arrangement. The question was whether he had a locus standi to object to the deed. The Court ruled that a claim in respect of a judgment was not a " debt contracted," unless there had been judgment prior to the deed, because a verdict without judgment did not create a liability to a demand. On a subsidiary question the Chief Justice said that he was inclined to think it is necessary for creditors to prove before they can vote at an arrangement meeting. . AUCKLAND. May 5. The Go-Ahead is likely to get off the Poverty Bay bar without any serious damage. She was insured for £2000 in the South British, and £2000 in the New Zealand offices. Both offices were reinsured. The analysis of the stomach of the woman supposed to have died from poison shows no traces of arsenic. A correspondent of the Star states that Hobart Pasha, the present Admiral of the Turkish fleet, served on board the Calliope in New Zealand, and was known as the Wild Midshipman. On one occasion he was confined for two days in a guardroom in Wanganui owing to a scrape. He was in charge of a gunboat in the attack on the Maoris at Porirua Harbor in 1847-48. Mr Buckland quotes cattle at from 22s to 28s ; best wethers, 23s 4d ; lambs, 10s to 13s 6d ; pigs, slightty lower. Quotations : — Adelaide flour, £22 ; Dunedin, £17 ; Oamaru, £17 ; pearl barley, £23 ; oatmeal, £16 ; bran, no market ; wheat, 4s to 5s 6cl ; barley, no market ; oats, 3s 4d ; butter, stocked with local, at Is ; cheese, stocked with local, at Gd ; hams and bacon, lOd ; market well supplied with potatoes, £4 per ton ; maize, 5s per bushel. Considerable dissatisfaction has been caused by a. combination between twenty of the bakers to raise the price of bread to od the 21b. loaf. The Insurance Buildings narrowly escaped being set on fire to-day by a lighted match that was thrown through the grating. Some rafters were ignited, but the fire was extinguished. A man named Anderson was stabbed in the eye by a man named Healy in Queenstreet this afternoon. A telegram from Gisborne to the New Zealand Insurance Company states that the captain of the Go -Ahead has given notice of abandonment of the steamer, but it was not accepted. Instructions were sent to the captain to do the best he possibly could for all parties, The steamer has drifted from where she first struck, and has gone towards the bar, where the surf at high water breaks over her. Share Market. — Bank of New Zealand, £20 os; Colonial Bank, 40s to 435; National Insurance, 30s : South British, 70s ; Standard, 14s ; Caledonian (double issue), sellers Cos ; Moanatairi, £10 10s ; Waitekauri, 16s 4d to 17s ; Kurnnui, 30s; Queen, 2s od to 3s ; Union Beach, 30s. BLUFF, May 5. Sailed — New Zealand Shipping Company's ship Waitara for London, with 451!) bales of wool, valued at £00,000. LYTTELTON, May 5. Cleared — May Queen, ship, for London, with a cargo of wool, wheat, and tallow, valued at £45,000. NEW PLYMOUTH, May 5. The Nelson papers having published reports as coming from New Plymouth respecting the gold rush on the bank of the Teremakau, near Greymouth, several miners have come here by steamer. This is an error, no gold having been discovered in any part of this district. (from our own correspondent.) DUNEDIN, May 4. Messrs Maclean Brothers report selling, on account of Messrs A. J. and T. Brown, to Messrs Cargill and Anderson, the Knowsley estate, Wynoham, comprising 3400 acres, with stock, crops, and implements, at a satisfactory figure. On account of Mr Kolland, to D. N. Nichol, Kaitangata, and on account of Macintosh, farm of 115 acres, four miles north of Balclutha, to Mr Robert Patterson, at £3 12s Gd per acre. At the large sale of grain held by MiDriver at the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company's store, Rattray-street Jetty, to-day, 200 bags of wheat were sold at an advance of 6d to 9d per bushel on the rate of this day month. The report of Mr Hislop, Secretary of the Otago Education Board, for the year ending March, 1877j has been issued. It states that the number of schools under the board's control, including two free school's, was 157 in 1875, and that eight have been added since. They are conducted by 175 schoolmasters, 57 schoolmistresses, 18 teachers of sewing, 22 male and 57 female pupil teachers. This is a larger proportionate staff of teachers compared with the number of schools than in 1870, but the increase has been necessitated by the increased attendance. At the Normal school alone there is a staff of 15 teachers and pupil teachers, besides students who take a portion of the work. The attendance at the elementary schools, Dunedin, was for the year 3094, at all the other schools 15,256, making a total of 18,350 pupils, exclusive of the two free schools. This number includes 95G1 boys and 8230 girls ; 285 boys and 274 »irls being educated at the free schools. (from our own correspondent.) DUNEDIN, May 5. A very numerous deputation from the Chamber of Commerce waited on the Hon. George M'Lean, Commissioner of Customs, on Saturday, to urge upon him the advisability of completing the main line of railway, so as to link Dunedin with North Otago and Canterbury, and with Southland. The deputation were vigorous in their representations. In the course of die interview, Mr M'Lean said the Government -were just a.s anxious as the deputation to get all the railways that were nearly completed into such a position that something could be got out of them, but as money was not plentiful, and as the credit of New Zealand was not in such a comfortable position as they could wish it to be, it was the desire of the Government to work matters in such a way as to raise the credit of the colony by showing that our railways, so far, are reproductive, and by keeping off the money market for a little while. With that desire the Government had made arrangements in Sydney for getting money for some time to come, and they would go on at a reasonable rate with these works ; that was they would be pushed on with due justice to every part of the colony. The deputation might think themselves a little badly off in this, but there were people in the colony a great deal worse off, and who had considerable cause for grumbling. The Government would complete all the main lines if they only saw their way to got the means, but as the deputation knew, the Government must be cautious, and work the tiling so as not to get the colony into trouble. Complications were now arising that might render it still more difficult to goto the home market, and the Government would not be pushed into the position of getting the colony into a mess, when the colony would have to sacrifice its waste lands, ■without any regard to settlement. Into that position the Government would never be forced, but would work cautiously so that the credit of the colony would be raised again, when they could borrow at a satisfactory rate to complete the railways. Of course they could go into the money

market. It was purely a matter of how much they paid for the money borrowed, but they might pay too much for it, and he did not think the deputation as business men would regard their doing that with any great satisfaction.

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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XX, Issue 3909, 8 May 1877, Page 4

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CHRISTCHURCH May 4. Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XX, Issue 3909, 8 May 1877, Page 4

CHRISTCHURCH May 4. Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XX, Issue 3909, 8 May 1877, Page 4