TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5367, 10 June 1878, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(per PRESB AGENCY.) i - Auckland, Saturday. - The .Hinemoa. has ..arrived at the Manukau with Mr, Sheehan; He goes North to-morrow or Monday. • •. . ~ At a meeting of the; creditors of: French, grocer, held’ yesterday, it was decided to wind up the estate. The liabilities are set down at £4OOO, and the assets at £2000., / , The Acclimatisation Societyhas - f received eight thousand Tahoe trout ova ,; from. Mr, Russell, per City of Sydney, ' ( * ' The disagreement between the trustees ofthe Grammar School and the Improvement, .Commissioners has, reached a : climax, i The - (. rraramar School has been temporarily allowed the occupation of a building in the Albert Barracks Park, which, by. .arrangement with has ‘ been' sold^as 1 policy barracks. The Grammar School trustees, havereceived notice to Tbut refuse to go. .The Improvement .Commissioners, to-day passed a resolution empowering the secretary to take possession on Monday. u Nelson, Saturday. • jOroupheriSv. l mill~ was ; burnt down last night, machinery, £4OO, .in the New Zealand. . . , Balclutha, Saturday; f Peter Mason and William Bloyd were,nomi-. nated to-day for a seat in the Borough, ,Council,, vacant through > the resignation of .Robert Cramoad. * . ■ ■ The rain is apparently. over r aud .the, nver ia falling. There is no damage worth recording. ’ i.'i ... v.... . l r Lawrence, Saturday. _,, More damage was committed by the heavy rains yesterday. morning than was at Erst imagined. In the town of Lawrence several parties suffered severely, and at Weatherstone’s, Gabriel’s, and, other parts of the district losses equally heavy and severe wore sustained. At Waitahuna a great portion of the main road was destroyed, and considerable [injury done to several claims. Tho railway line suffored likewise, numbers .of chains of ballast in ■ low-lying places being carried away. At the tunnel at. Round Hill several heavy slips occurred, causing complete stoppage in thetramc. Xu~ consequence of this oidy ono Siail per day is npw despatched, and It is conjectured ; tnat it will he two. ’or,,three* days before, repairs are ‘ effected, and .communication .with the .-metropolls again restored. Xtwas generally remarKea ■on Friday that the flood was the heaviest here for eleven years.

DuKEDlif, Saturday. C. S. Reeves andß. Oliver are mentioned as probable candidates for the representation of Dunedin,'in place of Mr. - Larnach, Mr. Stout will probably address his constituents in a few days. The contest between the Education Board and the school committee is about to be brought to a crisis by the latter inviting applications for a vacancy in one of the Dunedin district schools.

David Millar, who was recently fined 20s. and costs for assault, has forwarded a complaint to the Minister for Justice against Mr. J. N. Watt, who was the presiding magistrate on the occasion referred to. The basis of Millar’s complaint is that a few weeks previously, in a case where a more flagrant breach of the peace occurred, Mr. Watt inflicted only a penalty of Is., and ordered the plaintiff to pay-his own costs..

Mr, Macandrew’s resignation as a member of tbe Otago University Oounoil-was received to-day. He expressed regret that the Otago University ever consented to waive its claim to Royal charter, for had it not done so there could be no doubt but such charter would have been granted ere now, and the University would have been saved from the imputation of having sold its birthright for a mess of pottage. This was a great blunder, and no time should be lost in retracting it. He thought there could be no difficulty in the way of the Otago University obtaining a charter of its own. The Council decided to. invite applications for a lecturer on surgery, at a salary of£fi2oo a year in connection with the medical'school.