TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 867, 5 April 1877, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(Per Press Agency.')

INTERPROVINCIAL.

Proposed Regatta at Wanganui.

Wanganui, April 5

At a well attended public meeting last night, it was unanimously resolved to bold a colonial regatta on the Wanganui river next January. A first class committee was appointed, including members ot the County and .Borough Councils, Road and Harbour Boards, and iufiuential citizens.

Tauuanga, April 5

The National Bank lias purchased seventytwo feet frontage on Wharf street, at £9 per foot, for new bank premises. Laud is changing hands freely.

Taranaki Races. New Plymouth, April 5

Railway Stakes, mile and a-half. Opawa, 9st libs, 1 ; Mamama, Bst, 2 ; Flora MacDonald, 9st, 3. Flora made the running for half the distance, when she gave place to Opawa, who won a good race by a couple of lengths in front of Mamama. Consolation Stakes, one mile. Ada, 1 ; Elsa, 2; May Morn, 3. Forced Handicap, one mile. Resolution, Bst, 1 ; Flora MacDonald, 7st, 2 ; Mamama, Bst 21bs, 3 ; Bide-a-Wee, Bst 3lbs, Flora, 7st lOlbs, and Ada, Bst 21bs also ran. Resolution won by a length from Flora MacDonald.

Wellington, April 5

Major Atkinson'and family left for Taranaki last night in the Hinemoa. The Premier will probably be absent from Wellington, three or four weeks, and may address his constituents, but nothing is known at present.

Sailed—Taranaki, for Lyttelton and Dunedin, at 12.30. Passengers —Mr and Mrs Kenny and family, Messrs Selig, Montgomery, Tonks, Chandlers, Miss Tonks, Mr and Mrs Nicholson, and fifteen in steerage.