TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5274, 18 February 1878, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(PER PRESS AGENCY). Auckland, Sunday. A conference between the local bodies of the Thames and Waikato, with reference to pro* posed railway connecting the Thames and Waikato yesterday passed a resolution pledging the local boards to support capitalists or a company proposing to construct the line, and also requesting the Government to amend that portion of the District Railways Act exempting the Government and native lands from rates. The total cost of the railway is estimated at £217,000. Alexandra, Saturday. Tawhiao has a large meeting to-day at Hikurangi, to consider Grey’s visit here and the approaching one. A public meeting was held here this afternoon to consider railway extension to the frontier. Tadranga, Saturday. Great dissatisfaction is expressed amongst the Arawas respecting the delay in the sitting of the Native Lands Court at Maketu. A sitting has been promised since March, 1567, and continually postponed Th q Bay of Plenty Times , in referring to the delay in investigation of the Arawa titles, which it terms “monstrous,” stares that an influential deputation of the Maketu natives interviewed Commissioner Brabant, and plainly stated that unless a sitting of the Court was granted, or themselves allowed to manage their own land, affairs of bloodshed among themselves would ensue. Masterton, Saturday. Hurdle Race—Tawera, 3 ; Shark, 2 ; Roebuck, 3. Pour ran. Splendid race. Jockey Club Handicap—Mufti, 1 ; Danebury, 2 ; Otupai, 3. Seven horses ran. Nelson, Saturday. A fatal accident, under curious circumstances, has occurred at Golden Bay. Thomas Scott was playing seesaw, that is, standing back to back with another man, with their arms hooked, each alternately raising the other, when the man who was lifting Scott gave way under him, and Scott fell on the back of his head, breaking his neck. Scott’s wife committed suicide, by shooting herself, three years ago, owing to the brutal treatment of her husband, Dunedin, Saturday. Messrs. Guthrie and Larnarch’s joiners, twenty-five in number, turned out on strike to-day. Their grievance is that the company will not allow them on Saturdays a half holiday from 12 o’clock instead of half-past one as hitherto.