TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5331, 29 April 1878, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(PER PEESS AGENCY!) Auckland, Saturday. One reason why the native meeting takes place at Hikurangi. is that grog will not: be available there.. The Kawhia and Aoteana-. tires are going to Hikurangi. Meuraut, the jockey, made a serious state-; ment relative to McGee, which'will call for explanation. 1 The horse Falcon has been disqualified from running for ever. A meeting of the creditors of Mark Sommerville, grocer, Queen-street, has been: held.The liabilities are stated at £3176; assets, £1410., Am offer of sa. in the pound was.accepted. Lewis Brothers’ creditors adjourned the meeting to May 13th, to allow English creditors to he represented. " V The passengers and crew of thd brigantine Ada Owen (with the exception of the captain and passengers Nolan and Darrach) - were stricken with the island fever shortly after leaving the islands; two died; There have been fearful hurricanes in the New Hebrides. Houses were demolished, and some sheets of corrugated iron were carried half a mile; trees were uprooted and, crops destroyed. The natives - are starving. The Charybdis, an Auckland vessel, is a total wreck. The Ebenezor, schooner, went ashore. ■ Invercargill, Saturday; - : :

There was an important sale to-day r of proportioa belonging to the firm of Martin Maitland. There was* a large attendance. The National Mortgage Agency Company purchased the wool store and 66 feet frontage to the Crescent for £3700. The office and premises in Esk-street, leasehold, were bought by J. W. Bain, Soutldand Times, for £930.

Tdubu, Saturday." The Chairman of the Harbor Board received a telegram to the effect that- the commissioners approved of Goodall’s plans for a mole for Timaru harbor. The news was received here with great satisfaction. A speedy commencement of the work is anticipated, Dunedin, Saturday.

• The prospectus is advertised of a company to take over from Reed and Fenwick the Otago Daily Times and Witness newspapers,' capital £40,000, in £lO shares, £30,090 to be called up.- It is announced that half of the shares have been already taken up by the provisional directors. These are the Hon. Mr. Reynolds, Sir John Richardson, Captain Fraser, Judge Chapman, Messrs. R. Campbell, Stout, John Reed, Leary, Marshall (mayor), Guthrie, Hallenstein, . Fenwick, Bastings, M.H.R., 1 Hardy, and Dr. Hocken. The bal-ance-sheet for the last half;year as audited shows a profit at the rate of 18 per cent, on the capital to be called up. Reed and Fen: wick take 850 shares each, with the positions of editor and managing director for two years. Sunday. There are 25 entries for the All-Aged Stakes and 30 for the Puppy Stakes at the Metropolitan Coursing Club’s opening meeting, on May 3, at Palmerston.’ ’

The following are the handicaps for the Dunedin Jockey Club’s Queen’s Birthday Meeting :—Hurdle Race—Kildare, list ; Camellia, lOst. 71b ; Black Bess, 9st 7; Baron, Bst. 101 b. Birthday Handicap—Titania, S-i. 101 b ; % Bide-a-wee,. Bst. 51b ; Tommy Dodd, Bst. 11b; Blue Peter, 7st. 41b ; Exile, 7st. 21b ; Oberon, 7st ; Camellia, 6at. TOlb ; Contriver, 6st. 31b. Tradesmen’s Handicap—Titania, list. Bide-a-wee, Bst. 71b ;! Chancellor, 7st. 91b J Blue Peter, 7st. 71b ; Exile, 7st. 51b ; Oberon, 7st. 51b ; Swede, 6st 121 b ; Bothwell, 6st. 101 b; Endymion, 6st. 51b. Christchurch, Sunday.. The following entries for the Grand N tional Steeplechase Meeting were received hx.. night :—Maiden—RavenhUl’s Pakeha and Ronui, Williams' Cannon Ball, Dolman’s Shark, * Powell’s The Agent, Neilson’s Sir Tatton and Coquette, St. George’s The Turk,. Egan’s Tallyho, Keith’s Stockman, Fisher's Mickey Free. Grand National Steeplechase Handicap —Neilson’s Te Whetumarama, Tho Moose and Sir Tatton, Dawson’s Ivanhoe, Markey's ■ Mousetrap, Fraser’s Shillelagh,, Seabright’s Zetland, O’Brien’s Eclipse, Powell's The Agent, Dolman’s Shark, William’s Fakir, Hawdon’s Eversleigh, Mollwraith’s Lunatic, Wellwood’s. Batsman (late Will-if-I-Can), Egan’s The Don, Gourlay’s' Kildare, Hosking’s Brunette. Hunt Club Cup—Fakir, -Shark, The Agent, Sir Tatton, Te Whetumarama, Shillelagh, Mousetrap, Ivanhoe, Tho Don, and Eversleigh.