TELEGRAMS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 6592, 31 March 1883, Page 2

TELEGRAMS

(Pku United Press Association.)

Auckland, March 30th. Tho trustees of the Auckland Savings Bank are precluded by their charter from declaring a dividend of more than 5 per cent. The accumulated profits amount to £19,000, and it is proposed to Rot an Act passed next session whereby that sum can be used for the erection of an art gallery and school of art in Auckland.

Some Auckland merchants have entered into a contract with the French authorities to deliver 300 tons of flour at Noumea at intervals in the current year. Mr Bryce, Air Hursthouse, and Wetero proceed through the King country to Taranaki, via Mokan, after the trial of Mahuiki and his followers is over. Captain Johnson, of tho Marine Department, and Mr Blackett, engineer in-chief, go to Kaipara to fix a site for the lighthouse to be erected. At tb^ first annual mooting of the Auckland Agricultural Company the report showed a profit of £1300, beinglti^ percent, on the paid-up capital. An 8 per cent, dividend was declared, and the balance carried forward. Eight cases only are on tho criminal calendar for the. Supreme Court, though there are nearly 30 prisoners, including Walker's ejectment cases and Mahuiki's. Wellington, March 30th. At the meetiug of creditors to-day in the estate of Henry Mice, a motion recommending his immediate discharge was carried unanimously. A deputation representing tho auctioneers of the city waited on the Colonial Secretary this morning to call attention to certain disabilities imposed upon them by "The Licensing Act, 1881." The Hon. T. Dick, in reply, explained that tho original bill did not contain the word "auctioneer" in the clause called iv question, but that the word had been added in its passage through the House last year. There wore amendments brought down which Government could not get through. Those amendments included one to strike out the word " auctioneer " in the clause indicated. He promised to confer with tho Minister of Justice on his return to Wellington, and let the deputation know the result. Nelson", March 30th. A labouring man named Henry Thomas was killed this evening by tho falling of a tree. He was 50 years of age, and leaves a wife and nine children. Chkistohukoii, March 30fch. Tho New Zealand Shipping Company have recoived cable advices of tho sailing of the steamship British Queen, from Plymouth, on March 24th, for Wellington and Lyttelton, with a largo number of nasoengor.H. fhe ship Waimato, from Lyttolton, rcachod London on 27th March-all well. At a mooting of masters of Bntieh tradors, held at the Harbour Board Office, Lyttelton, seamen's wages wore fixed at £o' per month, owing to tho°low rates of freight obtaining for Home cargoes. . ~,,., In Chambers this morning Mr Weston appliod that the bankruptcy of Duncan Macallnin, of the Tambour Major Company,

might" bo annulled, on tho grounds that the proceedings should have been taken in Wellington, and thut aullicient notice had not been givou, Air Joynt appeared for the bankrupt. Judge Johnston postponed his decision,

At tho City Assessment Court to-day Mr Whitefoord, KM, docided that tho Freethought Hall could r.ot be regarded as a place of worship, and was therefore liable to be rated.

Oamahu, March 30th. At the district Court to-day Judge Ward Haid that, iv tho absence nf the proclamation constituting tho district under the Licensing Act of 1881, he could not hold that the Act was in force. A previous conviction in tho Jtesident Magistrate's Court was, on tho strength of Una opinion, quashed by his Honor,