SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

Thames Advertiser, Volume VIII, Issue 2224, 14 December 1875, Page 3

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

(?BOH OUB OWN COBBE9PONDENT.) * ' '■ ' Auckland, Monday.. i

There is eYery prospect of the Waio-; ; Saraka drainage question ; being .settled; at once. ' The Loan; Company have'accepted; seven thousand pounds for the! pumping plant and winding gear, and it > is stated that the directors of the City of. London are; w illin g to • go : in ; for [ this scheme. . Mr.Buckland and other Queen: of Beauty" shareholders' are also said to agree. The'three principal companies' are;expe6ted to form the ,association, and levy contributions on the surrounding mines. v : . _ ; Election' matters are quiet.. Mr . Shcehan is still, spoken of for the Thames, aiid is expected hero on the insfc. ' A meeting of shareholders in the Tairua iGold Mining Company'.was held to-day. Mr G. 8. Graham . occupied",the chair.; There were about thirty present.' On the reports, being read, Mr Stovin said that •further delay should, take place before such a heavy call as 6s per. share was .made. In reply to a shareholder, the Chairman said the amount of the call would enable the company; to resume crushing. On Mr White stating that he had- heard' that; Mr Beeche 1 intended bringing- an> action : against- the ; shareholders, the Chairman said, it was much more likely that the company would bring an action against Mr.Beeche. The reports were adopted' after muoh 'discussion.On the question of electing, neW' directorS; coming forward, the foui' old directors—Messrs. Klirenfried, Jack" son, Graham, and Howard—were: pro v posed, together with Captain Burton, Mr Perry, and Mr titovin. < Mr Jhren•fried vhe'.should object to sit on the same, board as Mr Jackson.' There' was no confidence between them. Mr "Jackson had : lived on : the mine all through, and had not acquainted the /shareholders' with the true state of the mine. Mr- Howard and one or two others got excited, and declaimed against ; Mr Ehrenfried for depreciating the value of the mine ; by suoh remarks,- The Chairman declared that Mr B hrenfried was in orderj oh" which that gentleman made furl her reference to the mysterious: way in which the mine had fallen after show? ing such magnificent prospects. He ' had hiipself taken the trouble to clinib the ;aountains to look into it. Mr Howard had no business to object to his remarks, as he had taken no trouble about the matter. Mr Graham defended Mr Howard's absence-from the mine._ Mr Jackson said he could not defend himself it was likely ; the matter would . come into Court, and it would not be : polioy for him to show his hand., On the poll being taken the following gentlemen ' were elected :-Messrs Howard, Graham, Jackson,' Captain Burton, and Ehrenfried., A meeting is to be called 1 in one month from' to-day to confirm. tho_ reelection of. directors; also,, to,..consider• the advisability of increasing the capital of the company by the issue of 5,000 shares at £1 a piece. ; . - George Strong; a boatman, and Mary, his wife, were had up to-day, and remanded for a week on a charge of setting fire to Mr Fernandez's Railway Hotel, •Official' Bay. Alfred Isaacs and Mr Chapman saw flames'ascending from the cellar of the hotel: last evening. They broke in and discovered kerosene shavings, rags, and other inflammatory materials inside alight. .. ... • •: ..Christopher Greenway, ".the wealthiest mnn in Auckland," was fined altogether £40 5s for six cases of allowing privies of his houses to overflow.: / ,•. At Cochrane's sale to-day, the villa residence and Jand at Parawai were withdrawn. i " Herbert Simpson, aged'lß, son of the late..; Mr Daniel Simpson, • C.E., was 'drowned on Friday at Papakura valley, in the flood. " The.' body was found oh Saturday, and awaits an inquest. , Ayoting lady was nearly killed by a ; plank falling on her head at Dyson's new premises in Queen-street. : /