LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Kumara Times, Issue 1081, 18 March 1880, Page 3

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[united press association.] NajPier, March i(3. The races to-day were very poor, and thinly attended. Except the District all the evehts were looked upon as foregone conclusions. Hawke's Bay Cup, 300 sovs—"Vampirfij 1; Libeller, 2; Renata Kawepo's Otupai (Native), 3. This race requires no description. Vampire made all the running and won> hard held} by a liength. Auckland, March 16. A portion of the Good Templars Lodge Hope, of Mahukau, being dissatisfied with the working of the Grand Lodge of New Zealand, north, have formed the Pride of Manukau Lodge No. 3. F.O. Callanj one of the French deportees intends publishing he«e a musical journal called the New Zealand Muse. A deputation from Whangarei County Council, waited upon Mr Rolleston to urge the construction of the Karao railway to Deep Water. Mr Rolleston said £30,000 had.been spent on the suggested work without any prospect of an equivalent return. In the present financial state of the country nothing more could be expended until the House met. At the Volunteer banquet, Captains Payne and Wildma, and Sergeant Cochrane,.Thames Scottish, were severe in their strictures on marking at Nelson meeting. John Thomas, aged nine years, while drawing a bucket of water at a well in Waterloo Quadrant, fell down in it a distance of 80 feet uninjured ; While being drawn up lift lost his hold 40 feet from the top and went down again, but ultimately got out all right. The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, New Zealand, opened this evening at St. Andrews Church. Preliminary exercises were conducted by the ex-moderator, the Rev. Mr Sidey, after which the Rev. R. F. M'Nicolj the new moderator for the present year, gave the usual inaugural address. The celebration of the sacrament took place. The large church was well filled.

Mr Sheehan paid a high tribute to the honesty and ability of Mr Bryce as a political! and also expressed his belief that he was fully able to cope with the Waimate difficulty. Christchurcfi, March IQ. Three tradesmen were mulched yesterday, at the Police Court, in small fines for leaving goods exposed on the footpath, the magistrate expressed his intimation to put a stop to the practice. Mr Blackwell'a alternative water scheme was read at the City Council last night. Ifc proposes a system of turbine wheels pumping water from the river and artesian wells through a system of mains to a reservoir. There are three alternative plans of this description at a cost of £106,000 £BO,OOO, and £73,000. The cost of maintenance of ihe last is £1990, and of the other two £IOOO. The £BO,OOO scheme is recommended!

) March 17. A.ftew evening paper to be called the Christchuich News, price halfpenny, will he issued on Saturday. The proprietor is understood to be Mr Cargill, who was formerly publisher of the Evening Mail printed some years ago.

Dunedin, March 16. A trout 201bs weight, 34 inches Jong, 31 inches in girth, said to be the largest caught in the Colony, was taken with a minnow in the upper Taicri the other day by Mr Dry den Greave.

Invercargill, March 16. A butcher, named Clilosey, died suddenly at Rivertouto-day. He had been drinking heavily of late.