TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 4981, 10 March 1877, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Auckland, Friday. Mr. Tole addresses his constituents tomorrow. Bishop Cowie distributed prizes to Trinity Church Sunday-school scholars. In consequence of Eden County Councillors refusing to show the minute of agreement with the Bank of Australasia for a loan the councillor in question threatened legal proceedings. Other councillors then, consented to show the minute. Mr. Whitaker, in reply to a deputation, said the Government will shortly open land at the Thames district for settlement. The Railway Commissioners reported in favor of reclaiming a portion of the harbor between Point Britomart and the wharf, so as to extend the railway to the wharf and establish a central station. They also recommend that tickets should be sold in shops, cheap Saturday and Sunday trains, and increased facilities for country settlers. The volunteers received the representatives to-day. McLean, carbine champion, was drawn on a gun carriage. Dr. Pollen goes to Wellington with his family to-morrow, and afterwards proceeds to Napier; thence to Taupo to meet Rewi on the 20th. A deputation waited on Dr. Pollen to-day and presented a resolution of Eden County Council requesting him to push on the railway. New Plymouth, Friday. The Taranaki agricultural statistics for 1877 have been published. They show—Holdings, 745; wheat, 1016Jacres; oats (grain), 711 acres; barley, 48 acres ; grass, 82,340 acres; potatoes, 596 acres; other crops, 268 acres. Total, 85,159 acres. Total increase of acres under crop, 24,584. The reported native meeting at Waitara will not, it is said, take place. Ohristchurch, Friday.

The agricultural statistics for the present year give the following returns :—Number of holdings 4473, of which 2760 are freehold land. Broken up but not in crop, 130,046 acres ; land in wheat, 92,417 acres. Estimated pr0duce,2,707,625 bushels. Oats—7s,3s4acres; estimated produce, 2,106,800 bushels. Barley —16,047 acres, estimated produce, 508,701 bushels. Hay—17,123 acres, estimated produce, 21,213 tons. Land in grass—3l6,o7B acres. Potatoes—3434 acres ; estimated produce, 25,886 tons. . Other cr0p—58,251 acres. Total amount of land under crop, including sown grasses, 653,487 acres. Mr. George Young, the Canadian Commissioner, who'has been deputed to visit the Sydney Exhibition, which takes place in April next, Waited upon the Chamber of Commerce yesterday and explained the exact object of his mission, which is to draw together closer bonds of amity and commerce than are existing between these colonies and Canada, and he explained that Canadian exhibits at Sydney would be principally agricultural machinery, and suggested the advisability of urging the to send some one to the Sydney Exhibition to report on the Canadian exhibits. The Chamber unanimously resolved to ask the Government to do so. A letter from the Minister of Justice has been received here stating that the Government will at once consider the law which prevents absentees being sued in Magistrates' Courts without the consent of their attorney, and will take steps to amend it. Pooley, one of the English cricketers, arrived here this morning from Dunedin to answer the charge of assault on a man with whom he had a dispute about abet. Dunedin, Friday. The Hon. Mr. Keid arrived this morning. The following general entries and acceptances were declared last evening :—Maiden Plate—S. Caulton'B br h Tregeagle, F. M. Delamain's b f Titania, R. Smith's ch g Little Dan, H. Redwood's br f. Bribery. Dunedin Cup—H." Redwood's blk h Guy Fawkes, including 71bs extra, lOst 21bs ; Delamain's b h Templeton, 9st3lbs ; D. O'Brien's b g Fishhook, 7st 121bs ; S. Nosworthy's ch c Danebury, 7st lllbs ; Delamain's Pungawerewere, 7st 91bs ; Yeend's King Philip, 7st 71bs ; Delamain's Elfin King, 7st ; Webb's Cloth of Gold, 7st 51bs ; Cusan's Stormbird, 7st 41bs ; Coombe's Right Bower, 7st 31bs; Nosworthy's Fallacy, 7st 21bs ; Logan's Dead Heat, 7st lib ; Redwood's Maroro, 7st lib ; Redwood's Puriri, 7st lib; Walter's Hippocampus, ,7st. lib ; Redwood's Stirabout, 7st; Delamain's b f Titania, 6st 121bs ; Princess Mary, 6st lOlbs ; Stanley, 6st 51bs; Spray, sst 91bs. Newmarket Stakes —Haphazard, Stanley, Spray. ' Publicans' Handicap—Guy Fawkes, Cloth of Gold, Fallacy, Rob Roy, Puriri, Hippocampus, Titania, Nelly King, Dolly Varden. Selling Race—Flying Beauty, Cornet, Elk (late Welk), Merry Bird. Handicap Hurdle Race—Banjo, Zetland, Kildare, Eclipse. Jockey Club Handicap—Guy.. Fawkes, Templeton, Fishhook, Pungawerewere, King Phillip, Elfin King, Cloth of Gold, Rob Roy, Fallacy, Maroro, Puriri, Hippocampus, Dead Heat, Stirabout, Glengarry, Dolly Varden. Dunedin Derby—Dead Heat, Puriri, Danebury, Hippocampus, Titania, Spray, Miss Elswick, Ruby, Fallacy. Steeplechase Banjo, Zetland, Forest Queen. Queen's Plate —Dead Heat, Templeton, Punga, Maroro, Puriri. The following are the reßultsof the Tuapeka races yesterday: —Maiden Plate, 25 sovs.; weight for age; 1£ miles—Testimonial, 1 ; Merrybird, .2 ; Entally, 3. Jockey Club Handicap, 75 sovs.; 2 miles—Atlas, 1 ; Glengarry, 2 ; Spinaway, 3 ; Rob Roy nowhere. .District Handicap—Lydia, 1 ; Fenian, 2 ; Maori Chief, 3 ; won by two lengths. Flying Handicap—Rob Roy, 1 ; Merrybird, 2 ; Maid of all Work, 3. At the inquest yesterday evening, on the body of Mrs. Young, drowned at Ocean Beach, a verdict of accidental death was returned.