TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume II, Issue 448, 4 October 1877, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(FROM TKK P'iRKK AGENCY.) ♦ WELLINGTON. October 3. Notice has been given that Jas. M'Dovvell and J. Paul, the well-known drapers, have failed, and have made a deed of assignment for the benefit, of their creditors. Daniel Cooley, employed as a gardener at the Hufct for Nathaniel Valentine, cut his throat, nearly severing his head from his body.

The Supreme ...Court was occupied all day with the case .of Mary' v Ann Trueman, for child murder. - After-a short retirement the -jury returned a-verdict of Not guilty. The Judge then sentenced her daughter, Mrs. >Mudgway, who had. .been = found guilty of "concealment of birth, to two years'imprisonment, with hard labour. The ' H iwea will bring the month's mails from Auckland, via East Coast. She will wait for it till Friday night, but should the mail steamer arrive on Thursday night, the Hawea will start immediately after she has got the mails. A. promoter of the Alliance Insurance Company of New Zealand. Fire and Marine, telegraphs here from Christchurch to-night that'the prospectus will appear in the morning papers. The promoters state tha 1 ". sufficient support has already been secured to warrant commencement of business forthwith, and that they hope to have the Company in full operation by the first week in November.

October 4. At a meeting of the Cricketers' Association held last night they reconsidered their former decis : on regarding their offer to the Australian cricketers, and the Secretary was instructed to write to Mr. Conway informing him that the Wellington cricketers were willing to offer the Australians half the gross proceeds of gates, booth', stand, &c. The former offer made was the nett proceeds only. . ■» « DUNEDIN. October 3. A few gentlemen met yesterday afternoon for the purpose of forming a new Insurance Company here. AUCKLAND. October 3. Union Insurance shares fell to-day to 12s. '6d., sellers. At the City Council meeting to-day the Mayor was authorised to advertise for subscriotions for the Indian Famine Relief Fund.

CHRISTCHURCH. October 3. The Star this evening says :—" Rumour is afloat to the effect that the new Insurance Company is to be called the Alliance, and the capital has been fixed at two millions sterling. There are hazy reports as to various meetings of promoters, but there is an indefinable atmosphere of mist about the proceedings, which it is absolutely impossible to penetrate." Since the appearance of the above, it is rumoured that the cause of delay in issuing the prospectus is the difficulty of getting a suitable Directory. At a public auction of Union Insurance shares to-day, 7 > wore sold at 93. premium ; •Jo'O at Bs. ; and 40 at Ss. (id.

LYTTELTON. October 4 Arrived. —The New Z:alan.l Shipping Company's ship Waituigi. with saloon passengers and 26J immigrants, all we L She made the pa-sage in 70 days from land to land, and S3 days from Plymouth to anchorage. She left Plymouth on July 12, to"k her departure from the Lizards on July 14, and made the Snares early on September 3). Fine weather m.irked the passage throughout, and there were no deaths. o PORT CHALMERS. October 3. Arrived : J"a nes Nicnl Fleming, ship, with 11 cabin passengers, 2±S immigrants, and 10J0 tons of cargo. The passengers are all well. One birth and two deaths (infants) occurred on the voyage The immigrants are a healthy, respectable-looking lot, and male no complaints. The vessel had a fine weather passage of SO days from port to port. ♦ NAPIER. October 3. Four hundred Union Insurance shares were sold by auction to-day at Lydons, and realised 16s. 6d. 10 ISs. ; 25 National Insurance shares fetched, cum dividend, 355. * WESTPORT. October 4. A man named Daniel Sullivan has been committed to gaol for tw~ a fine of L 25, for lying cross t'l ■ rails in front of an approaching en .neon t e Mount Rochefort line. He did it .... . ..-.k.