LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Kumara Times, Issue 522, 30 May 1878, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[press agency.] Dunedin, May 29. James Blythe, under remand for embezzling the monies of the Albion Brewery Co., who had been liberated on bail has absconded. It is supposed he has gone to Sydney or Melbourne. At a meeting of the Education Board to-day. they resolved not to entertain the applications for school buildings until the money enabling them to build had been voted by Parliament. The fol'iMwinn additional entries have been made for the St. Letter : —M'Lean's Sougster and Flying Send, by Kingfisher. Hodgkinson's colt, by Ringleader,, has been scratched, having been nominated in error. Christghurch, May 29. It is rumoured that valuable'Hot Springs have been discovered at the foot of the Peninsula Hills, Ellesmere district. Wellington, May 29 : Sir George Grey and Mr Sheeban arrived in the liinemoa this afternoon. The Hinemoa takes the Governor, Lord Hervey Phipps, Captain Maliug and Mr Slieehau to-morrow, at 4p.m., to Lyttelton. The Governor's stay in Canterbury will be about ten days. Mr Sheehan goes to Kaiupoi to settle some natire dispute. Auckland, May 29. The Council resolved to represent again to Government the delay iu letting the middle contract of the Kaipara Hail way. A letter from Mr Macandrew, re the voteof£4o,ooofortheProviucial District of Auckland, states that the payment thereof depends on the loan being ne"otiated by Mr Larnach. • At a meeting of the Waitemata County Council, Mr Dilworth said he had been informed by the member for Waitemata only this morning that Government were making arrangements for the employment of 20,000 Natives at 10s per day, for the construction of a railway from Waikato to Taranaki.