Telegraphic.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 10058, 27 July 1895, Page 2

Telegraphic.

I • — [I'ER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION ] Auckland, Friday. Thomas Marshall's saddler's shop, a* Oxford North, was burnt .down to-day. Insurances: Phoeair Fire Company ,£203 I After being; in existence something over I a quarter of a century, the old Tfiam.n ! t.oldminln(s Company has been wonad orl aad thd liquidator to-day declared a .

dividend of one shilling per share, which at onetime were valued at £30. -— At the halt- yearly meeting of the Tauplii Extended Coal Mining Company a dividend of one shilling per share was declared, amounting to £1200. A conference representing 22 local bodies was held to-day at the Municipal buildings, the Mayor presiding, to consider the inspection of dairies and the „ appointment of an Inspector in the "~ interests of the pnblio health. A committee was appointed to consider the pro* posed regulations. The police expect to. receive information with reference to tba -opposed Nottingham tragedy (the "ronjrnleslon of which Samuel Kvlsod now Blendß charged on his confession) by next San Francisco mall, arriving here on August 15tb. Particulars of the confession of Evlson were forwarded to the Nottingham police authorities on May 18th last, M. Chesae, High Commissioner of the FreDoh possessions in the Pacific, left by the Richmond to-day for Tahiti. Mining - share market quotations : — Albnrnla, fellers 53; Haielbiok, sales 4s, tellers i> 33 ; May Queen, 8a 9d to §a fid, buyers Us 3d, .sellers tii 3d ; Moacataire-, bnyers 6j 6d, selleia 7s ; Waibl, SUVertxra, sellers 39i j Woodstock, 30s, payers 30s, sellers , 32s • Waitekanri, bpyers 563, sellers 60s; Talisman, 12a, 12) s i, 12s 63, bnyers 12s 6d, sellers 13s ; Try Flukeß, 9a 2d, gellers 9s 24; Hauraki. sellers 22a 6d ; Banker's Hill, iYSTto 4s 9d, buyers 4j 61, sellers 4i Oi ; Kapal Vermont, 4a 9d, 4s 6d, bnyers 4a od, sellers 4% lOi ; Bonaczi, bnyers 3j Id, sellere 3) 3d ; Grace Darl ing. 2a 2d to 2s 3d, sellers 2a 3d ; Poitsea, Is 6d, buyers Is fid ; City of Danedin, Is 8d to la lOd, buyers la 9d, sellers Is Id ; Korfo'k, 2j 3d to 2a 10d, bnyers 3i Id, seDera 3i 6d. i WOODVILLE, Friday. There la no slgo of Alfred Gower, wanted on a charge of cattle-stealing. Complaint has been made to the Minister of Jaotlea of the neglect of the pollco in serving the warrant. Wellington, Friday. The Women's Social and Political League, has carried a resolution strongly urging the passage of the Astatic and Other Immigration Restriction Bill, on the ground that the ohlef factor in solving the unemployed question is by stopping the influx of the unemployed, and it woald also reduce the charitable aid expenditure. Mr Bishop, S.M,, delivered judgment to-day in the case of Police v. Press Company, for breach of the Gaming and Lotteries Act, 1885, section 3, Bnb section 3. The Magistrate held that there wan OOtblDg to prevent the Legislature making a law to prohibit newspapers from publishing matter in New Zealand respecting matter outside of its own territory. On the facts he fonnd the advertisement (Oxenham'B) invited personß to take ibares In a foreign sweepstake. On the law he held that the defendant in publishing the advertisement brought himself within the operation of the Act. Defendant was fined £1 and coate. An appeal will be made on the question of _ylaw. Lateb. At the inquest on the body found in the harbor nothing was adduced as to identity, and an open verdict was returned. The deoeased appeared to be a merchant seaman, and it is supposed that he either fell into the water going cS to a Home vessel or was drowned at sea and washed in, but the former supposition geems more probable as n bittle of llqnor was in a pocket. Christcuckcii. Friday. The Industrial Exhibition, to be opened on August 29;hby the Governor, promises to be a great success. Time for receiving entries for the exhibition does not close till August 7th, bat already applications for BTH3- square feec of space have been received. The executive committee today decided to increase the size of the building now being erected on tbo drillshed ground, by adding an extension 84 feet long and 50 feet wide. Nearly the. whole of the gronnd is covered by buildings, which will be 252 feet long by 84 ftet wide. Besides this the structure of - "•« -yn-shed Itself and H.q »''i-i!"i«a gnn.shed win DB-;miea with exhibits. Applications for space are still coming in freely, inoluding several from outside Canterbury. Dunedin, Friday. The Women's Franchise League carried tesolotions thanking the Premier for his prompt action in Constable Davis'sease (dismissed for kicking a woman), and for bis firm assurance that the Governments will do its ntmoßt to repeal the CD. Act, «nd raise the age of ooDaent this session. While nrglng the Government to give every facility for the passage of Mr Russell's two bills, removing women's disabilities, the leagne would prefer seats In the House until the present Parliament had an opportunity of proving whether it . wan prepared to do foil justice to women. Later. - The Roalyn Tramway Company's operations for the past year resulted la a profit of £905, ont of which the directors recommend the payment of a 7} per cent dividend, absorbing £747. William Lees was fjnnd dead this morning in a mill dam at Mosglel. He ' had visited friends on Thursday night, bat when leaving for home was evidently stupid from the effects of drink. iNVEBCARGrLL, Friday. John William Innes, accountant, was charged to-day with stealing the funds of the New Zealand Pine Company, and remanded til Monday. B»il was increased to two sureties pi £200 and self in £400.