TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 5208, 30 November 1877, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(PER PRESS AGENCY".) Auckland, Thursday. Many representatives of Masonic Lodges from all parts of the North Island are coining to the installation of Provincial Grand Master Whitaker and District Grand Master Graham to-morrow. J. W. Waller has been elected Mayor of Onehunga. At a meeting of the Auckland Steam Packet Company yesterday Captain Daldy presided. Offers were received for the Southern Cross and Pretty Jane, but below their value. A resolution was passed in favor of winding up, and the property to be sold to the best advantage. The meeting was very stormy. There were considerable recriminations. Mr. Aitken accused some of the shareholders of being desirous to sacrifice the company’s plant with the view of purchasing and forming a new company. The annual statement of accounts of the Board (?) shows the total receipts £44,450 The expenditure leaves a balance in hand of £1 19s. sd. An address will be presented to Mr. Hurst, the retiring Mayor, this evening. Timaru, Thursday. Jonas and Hart sold the saltwater swimming baths and property yesterday for £ll6O. At their laud sale there was keen competition, and high prices were realised. There will be a cricket match to-morrow between a picked eleven of Christchurch v. Timaru. Lawrence, Thursday. A trial crushing from the newly-discovered reefs at the Lindon diggings was made at the Waipori Company’s battery yesterday. The stone averaged three ounces to the ton. Shares in the Extended Company’s cement. claim, Blue Spur, were sold yesterday at treble their original cost. The gold yields at the Spur continue wonderfully large. Mr. 11. Williams has been returned os Mayor by a majority of 12 over Mr. Jonas Harrop. Dunedin, Thursday. Considerable damage was done on Tuesday night to the Mantaura telegraph office by lightning. A telegraph post within a few yards of the office was shattered into fragments, and three cells of the battery. were burst in their case. Aitcheson was charged with incest at the R.M. Court to-day, but the charge was dismissed, the child being over twelve years of age. Horrible revelations were made. The magisstrate in dismissing the prisoner designated him a polluted scoundrel. About two thousand people visited the Agricultural Show to-day. The Star understands that Mr. Hislop, the Secretary of the Education Board, proceeds to Wellington to assume the appointment of secretary in the new Department of Education. Blenheim, Thursday. The nominations for the Marlborough races will close on Saturday night.

RANGITIKEI RACES. Marton, Thursday. The following are the weights for the Handicap Hurdle Race, Railway Plate, and Marton Bangitikei Cup : HURDLE BACK. st. lb. st. lb. To Whotumarama 11 7 Comet.. .. 10 7 Nestor .. .. 11 0, Puhinabina .. 10 0 Gazelle .. .. 10 12 Awahoi .. .. 10 0 Hardy .. .. 10 10 Debora .. .. 910 Tawera .. .. 10 10 RAILWAY PLATE. Kakapo.. .. 10 1 Oulda .. .. 710 Ouawa .. .. 10 0 Maid ot the SlounMay Moon .. 8 0 tain . .. 7 9 Tawera.. ~ 7 13 Deerfoot •• 7 5 Commission .. 713 'J'amuri .. .. 7 2 Glenavy.. .. 712 Expectation .. 7 2 Folly .. .. 711 Sky Blue ~ 610 Flora Macdonald 7 10 Comet .* • • 6 10 CUP. st, lb. . st. Ib. Opawa .. •• 0 7 Ouida .. .. 7 0 Kakapo.. 0 7 Tamatea 7 0 Otupai .. .. 0 0 Expectation .. 7 0 May Moon .. 7 8 Patrick .. .. 7 0 Tawera., .. 7 8 Tamun,. 7 0 Commission 7 7 Chandler .. 610 Folly 7 6 Sky Blue .. 6 7 Flora Macdonald 7 2 Confident .. 6 7 Maid of the Mountain ~ 7 0 Acceptances must be lodged with the secretary at Marton by seven p.m. on Tuesday, lltb December.