NEW ZEALAND.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 3553, 30 August 1879, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND.

AUCKLAND. : [SPBOIAX,] *" ' v August 29. : At the meeting of shareholders in the Gale--^ donian Gold Mining Company, the report showed that the receipts from gold wero tributes, interest on investments, Ac, £72,874 y. expenditure, £2961, : Captain Murphy, and Robert Robertson,' mate of the Minister of Marine, were com* mitted for trial on a v charge of cruelty. The -. bail for the captain was -fixed himself in £200, and two sureties of £200, and for the mate , himself £100, and two sureties of dBIOO 1 . , *At an ordinary general meeting of ' the" Auckland Steam Packet Company no dividend was recommended by the director*. The report and balance-sheet? were adopted, and ; Captain Daldy and Mr G. S. Kissling were* re-elected directors. i' At the inquest on the fire at Mr Lamb's mill the evidence showed' that the amount insured waß £3000 and the loss £800.. A verdict of accidental fire was returned. • *■ Mr Shoehan has been interviewed all day by Natives on Native affairs. He drove out . with the Hon. LahmanyM.L.O., to see various places of interest. Mr Sheohan leaves for the Thames to-morrow, to attend the nomination. '