TELEGRAPHIC.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5557, 8 December 1879, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

•'♦ — . ■ . ; [by special -wire.] I : ■'„-'■. / AtfflftfcA^p, J&tilrday. ; The custbtaes duties for the. week i amount tOj £5215. ! . The, liabilities of Messrs Gtaddefroi in I Auckland will not exceed £2Q, 000: ; At a meeting of the committee of the s Auckland Working- Men's Political Asjsociation, itiwas decided to support the } proposal of the Wellington Local Indusi tries • Association to have a New Zealand -Exhibition. At a meeting of the creditors of ; Frederick Stephenson, grocer, the liabilities -were stated to be £259, and the I assets £745. Sunday. • Mrs Hardinge-Britten concluded her ; series of lectures this evening. A testi- ; monial is to be presented to her. ' The Moanatairi has crushed 200 tons of .stpne, yielding 400 ozs of gold. / GRAttAJisTOwar, Saturday. i There was a. long discussion at the ; County; Council meeting yesterday on |the motion of Councillor Porter to merge | the County into the Borough and High!way Boards. The motion was lost by 5 to 3. \ The Advertiser's reporter visited the Alburnia mine yesterday. He states that I the, prospects are equally as good as The, scrip stood at the close of the market to-day, sales, 57s 6d ; buyers, ;57s 6d ; sellers, 60s, ex dividend. | Sundays , The Waiotahi Gold Mining Company- id id [declaring a dividend of 2s 6d per share. JThe Moanatairi will also 'declare a dividend before Christmas. The latter had a return on Saturday of 443j05. of gold. . j Alburnia shared are unaltered. j The Carandiuis open here on Thursday ineit. ■' ' '■ ! Oamaru, Sunday. i Tho following entries have been received for the races on the ,2sth and 26th , irist. :-r-Cijp— Cauib^ljq, , Blue Peter, jNuma,; Soukar. Publicans' Handicap— , iCamballo, Vampire, Soukar, Blue Peter. Hurdle^ Eace — Hurraki, Unknown, Te JWhetu, Theodore, Pukeori, Little John. j ''['■■'. Dunedik, Saturday. ; Mr J. ; B; Dunn, canvasser for the \Tribune, , jnrlien. alighting this morning . from a tramway car while it was in fell, down and the wheels passed over his right arm, smashing it in several places. Amputation, it is thought, will be necessaryv The petition, lodged against Mr Fish, the Mayor elect, is causing a good deal of excitement.. It is reported that if tho attemptis successful, andMr Walter Akera gets the Mayoralty, a majority of the City Council will reduce the Mayoral salary for tho ensuing year to one shilling. Christchttrch, Saturday. A good many persons are enrolling themselves in the company being formed to establish a settlement on the Waimate Plains. .''■•■, About 10 o'clock last night a man named David Hineman, working "'at the dock works, Lyttelton, was found by his brother lying near the works in a state of insensibility, and with a large wound right across his forehead. The man was at onoe taken to the Hospital casual ward, where Drs. MacDonald and Eouse examined him and found that he had sustained serious injury, the skull being fraotured. The man's brother says that the injured man went with his horses about 8 p.m., and must have been thrown, and so met with the injury. The man is now lying in a precarious condition. • Mr Wallace, the Irish Comedian, in a speech' at. 'the Theatre Epyal last night, spoke of the unkind aud . ungenerous treatment he had received, from the 'Christchurch Press. He said that had he known of the existence of such brilliant " geniuses" as his Christchurch critics he ,would have first taken instructions from : •them in -the art of acting. ' ; At the E.M. Court yesterday Richard Davis, Deputy Registrar of the Supreme Court, Christchurch, appeared to an information charging him with filing certain' documents under the Debtors and Creditors Act without their being pro- i perly stamped, Mr Crowlishaw, instructed T>y the Auditor-General, con- j ducted the prosecution. He stated that the attention of the department having been drawn to the fact that a considerable number, of documents Had been filed and yetithe amount of fees was hot large, an investigation was made, and^ it then, appeared that there was a deficiency of £06'. The defendant was spoken jtp, about it, and was afforded an opportunity of making the money good. He, accordingly purchased stamps to the amount; of ■ £50 and filed the documents duly stamped. Further, investigation, however, led to the discovery that there wfcs still a deficiency to a considerable ex* tent, and again an opportunity ww given to ' the defendant to ' refund ' the money, which he had not availed himself of. He (Mr, Crowlishaw) was then directed to consider , whether criminal proceedings might be taken against the defendant for larceny or embezzlement. He did not, however, see how criminal proceedings could be taken, as the receipt ;of moneys by defendant was not part of his duties as a public servant. He was therefore driven to lay an information, against the defendant under the t Stamp Fees Act, so as to recoup the revenue to the extent of the deficiency. There was reason to believe that in all the cases the defendant had reoeived the fees, but in consequence of the absence of 'some of the parties the evidence in some of them was not at the moment forthcoming. - After some evidence had been taken the case was adjourned. In Canterbury the crops are very advanced, and should the weather hold fine 'the reapers will be at work here in eight !or ten days. On one farm the crop of barley promises to average seventy •bushels to the acre. The crops all round Sthe district are estimated to yield sixty .bushels to the acre, and the grain promises to be of fine quality. I At the adjourned meeting of license holders last evening, among other resolutions agreed to was one proposing that hotels should be divided into classes |A. B. and C, and, that the license fee be ipaid pro rata in accordance with the accommodation provided— say from £40 down to £10 per annum, I The bricklayers held a meeting -last night and formed a Trade/Protection Society. ; WELLiNaTON, Saturday. ; A man named Williams, while working at a foundry, received a splinter "of iron in his eye, and it is believed his sight will be destroyed; , . •,;'•'.,•• ! , Chiarini's close their , season to-night. They Have had a very successful run here. I The t'-.ost states to-night that the Bank of England has undertaken to float the Whole of the five million loan at £97 10s ; interest, 5 per cent.

Amongst the amendments ,in the I^rbpetby Assessment J3ill madelast night "was ..one' increasingl#e'N^m€ti6'n, frSm . Th}' mail steamer QltJ df Sydney, with the^bndon mails of th&6th November, left - jsJan Francisco f o^^ucklaind on thb J 24tli w:s ujt., the contra ; ot' : date.i.>\Ofhe «p.s. Australia, with the November mails, arrived at San FranciscoJ/on the 2nd inst., two dajs in advance of due date. •■'-•- •'---■ -• - ':• The Now Zealand Loan and Mercan^ tile Agency Co. report, under date. London, December 3, as follows :— "Woolr--^ I Market unchanged, Home bxtyers purj chasing freely* But Continental denland | limited ; competition on French account ; sluggish ; a good many second-hand I parcels ha've been offered during the i aales, ' the closing date for which is the 1 6th instant.; up to date about 87,000 : bales have been sold. Tallow. — The ! market is fiat, with, no trade or specula—; I tiye demand ; ' supplies of towtt melted. 1 i heavy; best mutton worth 38s 6d' per jcwt; ,best j beef, 36a 6d. Wheat.— 'Market (Juiet; foreign arrivals heavy; i Adelaide worth, 60s per 4961bs ; New Zeaj land, 58s per 4981b5. Leather. — Market ifirm, with good demand; best sides ; worth Is.';' :/•.-;■• ■ Sunday. j It is reported on good authority that jKewi has 1 declined to hold any further I communication with the Government, j and has rejoined Tawhiao at Te Kuiti ; , jalso that -Birold has left Parihaka an'd : jhas been offered refuge in the "King ; country. He is now at Ngatimaru. ,7 ...,,- --: : The Government have received a cable r t message from the Agent-General, stating that the Bank of England having under- ■■ j taken the issue of the loan, there Vis no {doubt of its being successfully floated. \ . A serious stabbing case took place lasi j evening. Two married women, neigh-bours,-had a dispute during which several threats were made. On the return home of the husbands a row ensued between the men, and one of them named James Fiannigan was rather severaly stabbed. His wife received several bruises. Dennis IMcConrick, the other husband, has been ! arrested. The doctor states that ! Fiannigan and his wife are not out of ■danger. j A young man named Ryott was ■arrested last night for issuing valueless jcheques. i A new marble altar for St Mary's Cathedral was consecrated this morning by Bishop: Redwood. A large assemblage witnessed the ceremony. r | "■ •■ New Plymottth, Saturday. ; : 1 A private meeting of Mr •w . Courtney's^ \ creditors was held -yesterday afterrioonf |An estimate, of the liabilities was laid j before the meeting, showing the amount '.due to secured creditors to be about 1;£23l ;£23, 000 arid unsecured creditors about i£ 17,000, with assets to about an equal < amount. It was decided to accept an jassignmeut of the estate, and Messrs ;Davidson t .Humphries, and Simpson (National Bank) were appointed trustees. WAtfGANUi, Saturday. : Dr. Earle waa savagely attacked in his 'surgery this morning by a madman named Antonio. The man, after some conversation with the doctor, during which he applied for admission to the hospital, took the -opportunity .of the doctor's back being turned to strike him on the ,baok of the head with a large stone. Dr. Earle was stunned for a time, and ia now suffering from the blow. Antonio made his escape. . i ■ ™^ iaiaßHaaai