TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5358, 30 May 1878, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(per press agency.) Feuding, Wednesday. The plans for the new Court House here show a space of 18ft. by 14ft. to accommodate the Bench, Bar, the Press, and the large increasing public. A meeting is convened to protest against the absurdity of erecting such an insufficient Court House for the district. Auckland, Wednesday. At a meeting of the Waitemata County Council, Mr. Dilworth said he had been informed by the member for Waitemata this morning that the Government were making arrangements for the employment of twenty thousand natives as 10s. per day, for the construction of a railway from Waikato to Taranaki, and the Council has resolved to represent again to the Government the delay in letting the middle contract of the Kaipara railway. A letter from Macaudcew re the vote of £40,000 for the provincial district of Auckland states that payment thereof depends on the loan being negotiated by Mr. Lavnach. Dunedin, Wednesday. The misunderstanding between the Education Board and the Dunedin school committee continues. The latter maintains that it should be consulted on education matters by tho Board, and it has warned the head master of one Dunedin district school that the recent appointments made to it by tho Board are illegal. The following additional entries have been made for the St. Leger :—McLean’s fillies, Songster aiid Flying Send, by Kingfisher. Hodgkiusbn’s colt, by. Ringleader, was scratched, having been nominated in error. James Blythe, under remand for embezzling the moneys o f the Albion Brewery Company, who had been liberated on bail, has absconded, and is supposed to have gone to Sydney or .Melbourne. At a meeting of the Education Board _ today, it was resolved not to entertain applications for school.buildings until the money enabling them to bo built had been voted by Parliament. Christchurch, Wednesday. It is rumored that valuable hot springs have been discovered at the foot of Peninsula Hill in the Ellesmere District. Invercargill, Wednesday. The second coursing match of the season commenced to-day. For the Morton-Mains All-aged Stakes there were fifteen entries. Suvmnn’s Gyp beat Brydon’s Souter in the first heat. «For the run-off between Surman’s Waterloo and Gazelle, tho latter was the winner. 1 For the Puppy Stakes there were eight eutries. The first heat has been run off, and McDonald’s Skip has been left in.