BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Evening Star, Issue 3681, 9 December 1874, Page 2

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

"Welli xerox, December 9. ine well-known hurdle racer Tommy Dodd has been sold by Mr MTvor to Mr A. O'Brien, owner of Tambomiui. The price has hot transpired. The deputies from the Synod of Otago are to address the Assembly of the New Zealand 1 resbyterian Church this evening, after which the subject of union between the two Churches will be considered. The Court of Appeal sittings are practically over, all arguments being concluded iu The Queen v. Dodd. The Court unanimously athrmed that judgment must be arrested. The < 'ourt intimated that they would not give jmK ment in Borton and others v. Howe and others for some time, probably not till the next Court met. The cutter Bose Home has been seized 'by the Customs authorities for having on board list* 36 ten ' S!ll oa k°c s of spirits not oa the'cargo vr, oi. ~ , CnuisTcnrifcH, December 9. Mi b.udhojmc intends to resign his scat in the House of lieprescntatives for lyaiapoi. The on, » Bowen hua ia-sued au addreas to the electors, soliciting their suffrages. He says—.it would, m my opinion, bo a mistake to initiate any revolutionary measures where they wei e not called for, but it had long been obvious puat changes have become necessary in fia'rt of

the Colony to secure good and economical Government. as well as local administration of local matters.” {From our own Correspondents. ) Riverton, December 9. The Harbor Board held their first meeting yesterday, all the members being present except two. The only business of importance done was that a resolution was passed to get the Superintendent to vest all the necesSary powers in the Board, and to empower them to borrow money on land reserved for the endowment of the harbor.