TELEGRAPHIC.

Manawatu Herald, 29 October 1878, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

(per press agency.) Auckland. Firth is engaged in distributing two hundred thousand Californian salmon ova in the upper part of the Thames river, presented by Baird, the United States Fisb Commissioner. The city accounts show the Corporation to be in a good financial position, with a substantial balance to its credit. New Plymouth. j Whilst the Hauraki was on her passage down from the Manukau, Captain Holmes fell and dislocated his shoulder, which will probably incapacitate him from duty for some time. Blenheim Four hundred ounces of gold from Havelock have been brought to, the Bank of New Zealand here by' the police. Chbistchuucii. A fire occurred at a boarding-house in Colombo-street this afternoon. It was extinguished before much harm was done. The house was insured for £600, and the furniture for a like amount in the South British and Transatlantic. Colonel Packe, the commanding officer of the Volunteeis, made his first appearence on parade last night after his very long illness. At the Synod to-day a motion was passed with a view of the Church of England people doing their own insurances. It was stated that a sum of X1 590 a year might be saved by judicious insurance. Two very fine lots of merino sheep arrived by the Ringaroomafor Messrs. Dalgety and Co. They are all wellframed heavy-fleeced rams. It is proposed to build anew Presbyterian Church, and to form a new .Presbyterian charge, in the boiough ofSydenham. Dl/NEDIN. The half-yearly report of the Na* tional Insurance Company shows that the total receipt^ including £8629 . from last year, are £48,624 ; tneicssesfor the half-year are £23,155, leaving a balance of £25,469. The directors recommend the payment, of 10 per cent on capital, and £15,000 to be carried to the re-insurance fund ; £5469 to be carried forward to next year. At a mooting of the Cricketers' Association held last night it was decided to invite the gentleman players, who are expected in Australia from England, to visit Dunedin, while it was agreed that the Canterbury Association should be requested to fix the date of the interprovincial match. Inveboargux. In the Resident Magistrate's Court to day judgment was giveb in Harris (Dunedin) v. Osborne, a claim for proceeds of sale of property ; it wjs decided that there was a^good «quit* able assignment of proceeds of sale to Mr. Eldridge for salary as clerk to the plaintiff, and that the defendant, an auctioneer, being directed to so apply proceeds, the plaintiff could not recover.

Havelock, 25th October Capt. Eose, master of the schooner Star of the Sea, a regular trader between Pelorus Sound and Wellington, was drowned on Tuesday morn* ing, off Lambert's Head. The vessel was running for shelter to Port Gore when the mainsail jibed, and the main sheet caught Captain Hose and carried him overboard.