TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Wellington Independent, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3884, 15 August 1873, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

[ANGLO - AUSTRALIAN PRESS TELEGRAPH AGENCY.] Auckland, Thursday. Alexander Saunders reports : — Buyers Bright Smile, 60s ; Bismark, 345 ; National Bank, 32s Gd ; South British, 52s 6d ; Caledonians, 3605 : Royal Oak, 15s. Christchurch, Thursday. The Synod has agreed to vote £5000 out of the church property, as trust for building the Cathedral. Tho work will be commenced at once. There is little interest taken in the election of school committees under the new ordinance. Grahamstown, Thursday. Two men, named Henry Moranfc and Edward Proutman, were charged at the Resident Magistrate's Court with stealing gold amalgam from the Pumping Association's battery. They were remanded until Monday. Over an ounce of amalgam was found on one of the prisoners, and more at his residence. He has been suspected for some time, and was arrested last night. The sharemarket is depressed. Dunedin, .Thursday. The trout hatching in the Shag River is a great success. It is expected that 30,000 young trout will be produced iv three weeks by the dry process. At a meeting at Port Chalmers last night, the following resolution was carried : — "That in the opinion of this meeting, the Moeraki and Dunedin railway here should be proceeded with immediately, as the Waitaki and Moeraki line is comparatively useless until the Moeraki and Dunedin line has been carried through." The meeting was of opinion that the line ought to go through Port Chalmers, so that the agricultural and other, produce for shipment shall be taken to the shipping port with the least possible cost. A largely-signed requisition was forwarded to the Government yesterday, praying that the duties on sugar and tea might be reduced. The Canary and Poultry Show was a decided success, there being a very large number of entries. 50,000 trout were hatched at Young's Ponds, at Palmerston. Lyttelton, Thursday. Arrived — Yesterday, Velocidade, from Newcastle. The s.s. Wanganui leaves for Wellington at 1.30 p.m., and the s.s. Taranaki at 6.30 p.m.