TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 957, 14 May 1879, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

"WELLINGTON. May 13. A meeting of the creditors of Messrs. Eddie and Jack, wine merchants, was held to-day. The statements showed the estate to be quite solvent, and that a large business was being done. It was resolved to carry the firm 011 under supervision. At a meeting of the creditors of Mr. J. Back, tobacconist, very strong language was used regarding the way the business had been conducted, and threats of a criminal prosecution were made. DUNEDIN. May 12. The result of the crushing of 527 tons of quartz of the Tipperary Quartz Mining Co., of Arrow, was 873 ounces of gold, yielding on an average a fraction over loz. ilkhvts. ogrs. per ton of quartz. May 13. It is understood that the National Insurance Company has had a splendid half year. A dividend at the rate of 20 per cent, per annum, will be payable 011 Monday next. CHIIISTCH U RCH. May 13. Advices have been received that the ship 13. L. cleared 011 April 12 from San Francisco for Lyttleton with 23,000 bushels of barley, costing 1 dol. 20 cents, per cental ; freight, L2 a ton. At 9 o'clock this morning, when Mr. Budden, attendant at the Museum, opened the building, he found that during the night a large window pane on the south side of the Museum had been broken, through \yhich footmarks plainly showed that an entrance had been effected. On looking more closely, he observed that the position of a gl.iss case, which in the day-time contains nuggets and gold dust to the value of about LIOO, had been altered. This gold Mr. Budden had before leaving duty locked up in a strong safe, which did not appear to have been tampered with. Before he went away at 5 o'clock the previous afternoon he locked all the dividing doors on the inside, leaving the keys in the locks. These doors were all open this morning, showing that the "visitor" had carefully gone through the whole of the premises. Nothing, however, had been touchod or taken. This is not the first time the Museum has been broken into, and the officials are very careful to put away all valuables before leaving the premises. AUCKLAND. May 14. At a meeting of the Wesleyau Foreign Missions, the Rev. T. Buddie gave a description of his visit to Kopua. He described the King as practically a prisoner, not even his male relatives having free access to him, he being surrounded by 200 armed men under Purukutu. The Rev. H. La wry, Secretary of the Auxiliary Bible Society, took a large supply of

Bibles to dispose of at the King meeting, but Sir George Grey purchased the whole lot, and distributed them gratuitously amongst the Maoris. The meeting was crowded to excess, and the collection double that of previous years. GISBORNE. May 13. . Mr. S. M. Wilson's .bag shed, known as " Read's barn," has been burnt. Incendiarism is suspected. It contained 40 tons of hay. Insurances : Building, Ll7O in the Union ; hay, L 135 in the Colonial. 'Mr. Wilson's loss above the insurance is Ll5O.