SPECIAL TELEGRAMS

Thames Advertiser, Volume VIII, Issue 2127, 21 August 1875, Page 3

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS

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' Auckland, Friday. The first cases of imprisonment under the Education Act took place yesterday, when Mr Ansell, of the Three Kings, and Mr McDermot, of Panmure, were committed lo Mount Eden for seven days. Five warrants have been sent down to the Thames. Georgo Spinks, formerly in the employ of Mr Bead, timber merchant, at the Thames, was sent to the Whau Asylum as a lunatio this morning. He was very excitablo in tho station-house, calling himself Napoleon Bonaparte, and making extravagant promises of the doctors and every ono else. Alfred Buckland was fined 5a and costs for driving scabby sheep through a public thoroughfaro. Thompson and Wilson were remanded to-day for attempting to pass bad money, a practice which is at present very common in Auckland. The Star has an account of an eloping husband by the ship ' John Bonnie,' for whom his wife is patiently waiting in Auckland, having sailed in the ' Somersetshire' directly after him. She arrived hero by the' Hero' on her last trip.' Sharemarket. — Sales: Calodonian (doublo issue), 82s 6d to 80s; buyers, 82s Cd. Buyers: Cure, 13s 6d; Union Beach, 295; Tokatea, 133 6d; j}jax,'2s 6d; Gem, 6s 6d.. Sellers: Caledonian (double issue), 85s; Golden Calf (new issue), 7s; Bright Smile, 83s j Queen of the May, Us; Cure, 14s; Union Beach* 31s; Tokatea, 1,55; Boyal Oak, 6s; &jax, 2s Od; Gem, 7s. (PBB PBBSS AGENCY*)

The Devonport electors (Yon der Heydo's constituency) last night met. There wero 250 present, and they passed the following resolution That this meeting views with great alarm the evident determination of the Ministry to put measures through in expiring Parliament, and urged the member to resist tho bill by all constitutional means." The mooting concluded with three cheers for Sir George Grey,

Mr Buckland reports fat cattle, slightly advanced, 403 per lOOlbs; fat sheep, dd; long-woolled, lambs at side, IDs 6d to 225,