BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Evening Star, Issue 4160, 27 June 1876, Page 3

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Riverton, June 27. At a meeting of the Riverton Harbor Board the following resolution was carried unanimously“ That an endowment of 40,000 acres of land be applied for in blocks acrea each » that Mr Daniel, Dr .Monckton, and Mr Mills be requested to interview the Commissioner of Crown Lands for the purpose of ascertaining when unsold land in those sized blocks can be obtained, and accurately defining the boundaries, and that an endowment be granted of sections 20 to 22, blocks of town of Riverton, for the Harbor Board.” The above-named gentlemen were requested to forward the necessary instructions to Dr Hodgkinson for framing the Harbor Endowment Bill.

Wellington, June 27. The H.M.S. Nymphe has sailed for Auckland, where she will take in stores and return immediately. The Greymouth-Brunner Railway has been repaired and traffic is resumed. A ferryman at Teremukau found a child’s jacket on a snag in the river. In picking it up the arm of a cuild dropped out, and was earned off by the current. It is supposed to be a portion of the remains of children lost at the Christchurch road. At the Chamber of Commerce meeting to-day they agreed to ask the Minister of Justice to extend the jurisdiction of the Resident Magistrate’s Court from LSO to LIOO. {From our own Correspondent) m. . , Oam Aim, June 27. The cremony of laying the foundation stone of the new Masonic Hall for Lodges Waitaki and Kilwinning Was performed this teinoon. There was a large turn out of inhabitants to witness the ceremony. The hall is to he completed in five months, and isjto he erected in Wansheck street.