TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5363, 5 June 1878, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Auckland, Tuesday. Thirteen candidates came up for the Civil Service examination. Mr. Dickson, contractor for the Featber-stou-Palmerston Railway and the Patea breakwater, goes South in the Taranaki to-morrow to enter on the works. Part of the railway is sub-let to Mr. Heron. : - New Plymouth, Tuesday. Major Brown and Major Tuke left here early this morning for Opunake to meet Mr. Sheehan there. Te Whiti, the Parihaka chief, ha's . expressed his disapproval of the conduct of Komere in molesting the cattle at Oeo, and has sent a native to try to make his party desist from interfering in any way. . Sir George Grey has telegraphed to Bewi that he and Mr. Sheehan will meet him at Waitara on 21st June. Mr. Bair; - of Dunedin, has submitted his report re water, supply to the Borough Council, and it meets with general approval. £14,000 worth of. grass seed has been exported from here this season. Wanganui, Tuesday. At the Licensing Court this day the Court renewed all‘the applications but two. - One was for a new house on the river bank, and was refused. The other was an. application by W. Edwardsj late of Wellington, and was objected to by the police on the ground that he was not a fit and proper person, and that his hotel at ! Kaiwa’rra was the resort of card sharpers. His counsel applied for an adjournment for fourteen days, in order to produce witnesses from Wellington. The adjournment was granted. ■ Napier, Tuesday. The Daily Telegraph refers to the important movement now going on in Poverty Bay with reference to disputed land titles between Europeans and Ivlaoris as likely to lead to an equitable adjustment of existing difficulties. Chbistchubch, Tuesday. A man named Walker picked up a bottle near Brighton Beach containing a paper with the following writing :—“ Church, Canterbury, New Zealand. Ship Lurline wrecked; all hands lost. Captain 0. H." i The Otago run in the Waimate District, comprising 17,000 acres freehold, 20,000 acres leasehold, and 24,000 sheep, has been purchased at auction by Mr. Thomas Teschemaker tor £191,000. The Hunt Club had a run at Waimate yesterday, when a horse belonging to Mr. Freeman, Waimate, valued at £9O, was killed during the bunt, and Pat McCoy had two ribs broken. : ‘ The Customs revenue last month was £19,059, and for the corresponding month of. last year £14,874. The land sales last month realised £98,534. : The Governor will hold a levee on Thursday. At the annual licensing meeting to-day nine out of ten applications for new..licenses were refused. One was adjourned for consideration. ' Dunedin, Tuesday. 1 The interim secretary of the Otago Daily Times Company says a meeting of provisional directors was held yesterday, when it was resolved that 500 shares should bo reserved for future allocation. The number of shares applied for was considerably in excess of the number to be allotted. A committee was appointed for. the purpose of allotting shares. The election of the first board of directors, and the consideration of the articles of association, were postponed to the next meeting. .It has been raining heavily in Dunedin for the last twenty-four hours. Mr. Donald i Reid has forwarded to the Speaker his resignation 1 as a member of the House of Representatives for, Taieri. ■ •