INTERPROVINCIAL TELEGRAMS.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 70, 20 March 1877, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL TELEGRAMS.

[From the Press Agency]. Napier, March 16. A set of resolutions to be passed at the Native meeting to be held in this Province has been issued in Maori, from the Wananaga office. One of them urges the Natives not to take part in elections for County Councils lest they should be made to pay rates. Another resolution expressed

approval of the action those Natives who keep possession of the Oaraanui block. Wellington, March 16. Recent private advices from Australia state that Adelaide will not export this year more than 70,000 tons breadstuffs, as against 200,000 tons last year; and that Sydney will this year be a large importer of grain in consequence of the severe drought. The Tijnes says Captain Campbell Walker's term of engagement as Conservator of State Forests expires with the termination of the present month. It says nothing will be done in the way of organising a department until his report has been laid before Parliament. Captain Walker will leave the Colony on a visit to Australia and Tasmania next month. March 17. The Hon. Dr. Pollen leaves per Hinemoa this evening to attend the Native meeting at Tapuaeharuru. Dunedin, March 16. The following is the approximate yield for Otago, i 877 .—Wheat, 1,163,744 bushels ; oats, 2,214.475 bushels ; barley, 224, 075 bushels ; potatoes, 23,477 tons. In deciding the demurrer by plaintiff to defendant's pleas in the case of the fever hospital, Judge Williams said:—" What we have to decide is, whether the powers given by the Public Health Act to Local Boards of Health would enable them to divert it not temporarily but permanently. I have no hesitation in holding that the Public Health Act gives no power of the kind. As to the remedy being by prohibition on the ground of the Local Board of Health being a judicial body, I am of opinion that such is not the case. The Local Board of Health is an administrative body, and if it was a judicial body, the Act now complained of is an administrative Act. For these reasons, I think the demurrer should be allowed with costs." Leave was given to amend the pleas. March 17. Captain Barry last night lost the bet of £50 made with the Davenport Brothers, as they liberated themselves in 20£ minutes. Grahamstown, March 17. The Moanatairi yield for the fortnight was 4912 ounces. The reef is still looking well. Hokitika, March 17. The Government has concluded arrangements for the purchase of the Kiunaru water race from the Company for £800. Oamaru, March 17. Captain Duncan Bain, of the topsail schooner Maid of Otago, lost his footing while walking down "the upper jetty, and was precipitated on to the rocks below, a depth of 150 feet. He was found quite dead.