TELEGRAPHIC.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XIV, Issue 4772, 25 January 1887, Page 2

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LONDON. Jan. 24. In a number of churches in London yesterday the Socialists again hissed when the prayers for the Queen were read. (SPECIAL TFXEGKAMS TO JAN. 22.) \n issue ol iU.OOO shares in the AngloAustralian Investment and Finance Co. ia announ^d. — Sir Saul Samuel denies tho report iv d.culation that a large New South Wales L an is impending.— Tho official average of the Victoiian loan is £102 19s 4d. 800 tenders were received, the total amount being £10,194,500. Tenderers at £102 19a will receive (K) per cent., those above that in full. A syndicate tendered for £G,000,000 at £102 17s lOd. The loan iBat a premium of 1. — 830 intending exhibitors at the Jubilee Exhibition have been allowed 01,'>00 feet, subject to the approval of the Adelaide Executive. The leading artists and sculptors send their works to the Exhibition. The Foreign Committee of the United States Senate recommends that fifty thousand dollars be appropriated to the securing of the efficient representation of America at the Exhibition.— The Caledonian (Ethbridge) Mining Co. is announced with a capital of £120,000. Truth publishes an article attacking Mount Britten Goldmine, j a company work which was recently floated. — It is announced Mr Lees will probably accept temporarily the pastorship of the Scots Church, Melbourne, but it is not likely that he will permanently. — ■ The Swinger has been re-commissioned for the Australian station. Lieutenant Allen has been appointed to command her. — The cotton, woollen, iron, and steel trades are all improving. — Mr Pender, on behalf of the Eastern Extension Co., will submit to the Colonial Conference a, scheme for reducing the present cable rates by onefourth. — The Canadian vessel Alert has been selected to make a survey of the route of the proposed Pacific cable from Vancouver to the Sandwich islands.— H. M. troopship Tyne takes relief troops to Sydney shortly. —The Rev. H. W. Goodwin, Vicar of Harrow, who recently declined the Bishopi c of Bathurst, is about to be married to the eldest daughter of the Archbishop of York.— The P. & O. Co. have reduced the amount of their mail tender, but have not otherwise modified it. They also stipulate for the right to continue their connecting service from Aden to Bombay thence to Ceylon. MELBOURNE, To-day. The Preuasen's passengers will be released from quarantine next Saturday. j NAPIER, To-day. j Mr Edward Collins, an old Hawke's j Bay settler, has died at Palmerston, aged (»6 years. Ha arrived at Wellington in 1841. He spent 25 years in the Waipawa district. He leaves a widow and ten grown-up children. CHRISTCHURCEI. To-day. Last year before the R.M. 2996 persons were charged with offences, against 2643 in 1885. There were 4007 plaints issued in civil cases, and 3227 cases heard. The amount sued for was £37,024, and amount recovered £18,151. DUNEDIN, To-day. Sir W. Jervois and family go to the West Coast Sounds in a few days by the Hinemoa. AUCKLAND, To-day. The United Free Methodist Conference has closed. Fraternal greetings were received from the Wesleyan Conference sitting in Auckland, and a suitable reply was sent them. The Kaihua Valley railway ia to bebegun forthwith. Mr Owen, the contractor, who has arrived from Sydney, means to start at once, giving employment to 100 men. The first section of 16| miles is to cost £58,000, including rolling stock, railway stations, and other buildings. The railway will tap a splendid kauri bush, containing 300,000,000 feet of timber. The railway plant and rolling stock will be brought direct from England. WELLINGTON To-day. Saturday and yesterday were two of the hottest days of the season and the thermometer has registered 85° in the shade. The police are atill prosecuting employers of females for keeping them at work on Saturday afternoons and another case will be heard to-morrow. A thick fog hung over the harbor entrance yesterday morning, and steamers entering the harbor had a difficulty in ascertaining their position. One or two of the vessels had narrow escapes, the fog only lifting when the steamers were close on the rocks. Though a brilliant sun shone in town all day, the fog was thick both at Island Bay and at the Heads, and the steamer Rotomahana, which left for the South in the afternoon, had to anchor near the pilot station for a couple of hours. ADELAIDE, To-day. The latest advices from Tetulpa report that little work ia being done on the goldfield. The South Australian wheat crop is not reaching the estimate previously formed, and will not exceed the yield of of last year.