Telegraphic.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 10070, 10 August 1895, Page 3

Telegraphic.

[PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

Auckland, Friday. Tho Tararu Creek Company, annonncod in London, has a capital ot £91,000, or which £45,000 is being issued. Tho prtw porby consists of 150 acres atTuraru, nonr tho Thames, including tho Norfolk, Sunbeam, Excelsior, and Duucdiu ruinei. Terms — £94 000 capital, £1000 immediately, £30,000 working capital, half available at once. Norfolk shareholder^ 21,248 shares paid up; Dunedin, 7fiSo ; Sunbeam and Excelsior, 6400 between them.

Good news comee from the Waihi SUverton lead, which has been cub to a low level, showing iree gold. Sharea are rising rapidly. They were quoted this morning at 58s 6d, Try F>uke shares advanced from 10s yesterday to 12a 6 A this morning.

Later,

Auckland share market raining quotations :— A featnre of the week is the rlso In tbo Waihl Sllvertons from 42a to 57h 6d, sellers now 555 ; Woodstock sales 31s to 31s 4d, buyers 30s, sellers 32s Gd ; Talisman from 143 6d to 15s, buyers 148 6d, sellers 16s ; Try Flnkes 12s to 12a 6d, buyers Us 9d, sellers 12a 3d ; Kaipal Vermont 6s, bayers 6a, sellers 6a 3d ; Waitekanrj, bayers 589 ; Moanatalrl 7s 8d to 7a 9d, buyers 7a 6d, sellers 7s 9d ; Albntnla, buyers 4a, sellers 4s 3d ; Hazelbank 5s 6d to 7s, buyers 7s 6d, sellers 7s 3d ; May Queen 9s to 10s, buyers 10a ; Haurakl No. 2 Is 6d, sellers Is lOd; Waltekanrl No. 4 Is 51 to Is Sd, sellers Is 9d ; Bunker's Hill 4s to 4s 3d, sales, buyers 4a 2d, sellers 4s 3d ; Zealanclia, sellers la 9(3 ; Welcome Find, buyers 2s 6(1, sellers 2) lOd ; New Bonanzi 33 BJ, buyers 3s Sd, fellers 3s 9d ; Alpha 6s, sellers 6j ; Owharoa 4s Id, bayers 4s, sellers 4-; Id ; Crown, 429. At the loquest tit Hukerenui on Thomas Broornp, a gnmdigger, aged 76, formerly of the 58th Regiment, and through the Northern war, the jury returned a verdict that he died from natural causes, with a rider " That ib is a disgrace to New Zealand that an old soldier died in obscurity, being neglected and never getting any assistance from the Government for his services." There has been a sndden mortality among cattle at Ohanpo, Waikato. Fonrteen head have died. Mr D. Ross, Inspector of Stock, was called in, and has taken some of the beasts' intestines nnd prepared them in spirits, and also sent to Wellington for Mr Gllrnth, the Government Veteiinary. The cause of the mortality is unknown. At the annual meeting of St. John's Ambnlance Association the Mayor presided, and the Mayoress presented the certificates. The report showed a debit balance. It was decided to take fresh steps to interest the pnblic in the work. Sergeant Lyons and a detachment of Wellington constables who were stationed at Galatea returned to Auckland this evenlDg in good health, bat they snflered I a great deal from exposure and the cold ; weather. The co-oparatlve road parties are working well. Gisborne, Friday. In Whenua's case the jury returned nt S o'clock last night wloh a verdict of guilty, with a recommendation to probation. This morning the prisoner wan admitted to probation for 12 months, and ordered to pay costs of prosecution. Peta Hano, for forgery, was admitted to pro bation for 12 months and to pay costs, , The Court is now hearing an assault case between two natives, New Plymouth, Friday. Ac inquest was held yesterday at Pukearnhe on the bndy of Constable Seymour, who shot himself on Tuesday night, when a verdict) of temporary insanity was returned. The details of the inquest are not) yet to hand. Wellington, Friday. Robert Sim, of the Wellington Native Office, has been appointed Registrar of the Native Land Valuation Court, Giaborne. The body of a man named Charles Christopher Wilson, aged 25, has been found at Kakanui, near Eketahuna. The long spell of fine weather was broken this morning by a cold southerly wind, with frequent hail showers. Later. In the Agent-General's report mention w&8 made that the Gothio'a beef snff;red la appearance from rough dressing. The manager of the Gear Company has received a letter from Mr Borthwick, representative of the syndicate making the experiment, which shows that the meat shipped by that company was not its any way open to complaint. Mr Borthwick says, " Four beef wob well dressed, and mostly young cattle, but part of them short of lean in the loins, ChiDrd beef, to compete with American, has to be of very good quality, and this was all boaghb by those who use American, not frozen. It) bns been very successful, end we are well pleased with the experiment. Had the beef all been good it would have brought a much better price. However, we are patiefied with yonrr." A pnblic meeting passed resolutions urging npon the Government the desirableness of handing over the Monnt Cook gaol and reserve for University College purposes, and protesting ogalnst the existence of a gaol in the centre of a populous city. A committee was appointed to obtain signatures to a petition to the Minister of Poblio Worke. Blenheim, Friday. A slxteen-roomed hou*e, occupied by Mrs Branson, owned by the Bmlc of New Sonth Wales, and situated at River lands, was destroyed by fire. The bailding was insured for £800 In the Nationil efficp, and the fnrnitnro for £200 in the Liverpool, London, and Globe cilice.