TELEGRAMS

CABLES

HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS By Electric Telegraph.-Copyright. (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.)

Mails for Tonga, damoa, and Fiji oloso at Auckland on Wodnooduy, 28th iuntiunfc, afi 4 p.m, Tho Hat of tho Now ZoaUnd Justices of tho pjftco now covori fifteen pagoi of tho Gazetto. Mr A. H. Burton'd noxb recital will be given toHimrrow niphfc, tho oubjoob being " Mat tin Ohuzz owit " This rooital will bo givon jn tho Athoutoum Hall. 'I ho Voltaic! Gold Drsdging Company, with n capital of L10 000, la on tho mmrko 1 ), 1 ho cluim itt on tho Kiwama rivor, Mr G. ft. Hiolop is the local broker. M coirs Sumptor and Kottolwell report tho ealo by auction of vaoant nootlons 1, 2 8, 0, 20, 21, and 22, block 78, Oam *ru town, on nooountof Mo Woott/, for L120, to Mr W r m, Shaw. Tho extended night) of tho Oainaru AJUes Quadrille AsHembiv takns pkoo on Thura day lltot in tho Uaoti Hall, Tyno otrout. Hofrodhmoutfl uro provided, and tho ahargo for ndmiuoion i» 2j. OapUin Allmm (wys tho Star'* Padift montiry reporter) is undorstood to bo Hn'xious to givo avidonoo boforo tho Royal Comminsion, t»nd rumor has it that ho will hivo noniQ spioj rovohtlonn to mftko ra gniding tho oonduot of the M*tino Dopart msnt. Thfl Now ZoaUnd Farmori* C/o^oporntivo AB»o<5h»io»i of Canterbury, Lirnltod, is in roooipb of cho following oanlo moonagc from its London offlco undor date 23rd Juno, 1899 i " Wo quota to^ay'd valuo in Smith flold markot— Mutton 2i 91 per (tons (4£d Dor lb) ; tho market h woak. Limb, :u lOiporntouo (C^d por lb ; tho market ii Btoidy. 1 ' Tho Rov. W- H. lTi'ohofcS oditorof tho Roviow of ttevipw*, hfti boon interviewed Ly a rejjrosentativo of tho Daily Ngwb, and inbor nli •,' aboud social quoatloun, \,o aaid : "Gambling is a so&tulo, aud a monaoo to bho future, Tattorsall'd awoepa a ourso, Urrikiniitn in dvoro 'ling, nnd loca' option a ffclluro. I bollovo," ho sfttd, " tho ono thing to aim at is thu comploio Oiim>natiou of private proflcw from tho trudc. 