TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5369, 12 June 1878, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(per press agency.) Auckland, Tuesday, The Working Men’s Club have had a split, owing to the alleged mismanagement of the committee ; but after three stormy meetings the differences were settled by the choice of a new committee. There are a large number of members on the roll. Patea, Tuesday. The sale of a block of 200,000 acres of land beyond the confiscated boundary and between the Waitotara and Wbenuakura rivers was negotiated by Mr. Williams for Mr. William Oowern, of Carlyle, yesterday. The Ngaraura tribe are the sellers. The present purchaser has given Government the refusal of the land. The natives desire that the transaction shall be known all over the colony. Large reserves will be set aside, and the bulk of the land will eventually be cut up for small farms ; but it must first go through the Court. Christchurch, Tuesday. The Jockey Club have arranged the programme for the Spring Meeting. The only alteration from last year is the addition of a Flying Handicap of 100 sovereigns, on the third day. The total amount of added money will be £2200. At a ballot taken at Akaroa yesterday, to ascertain whether tlie ratepayers were favorable to the borrowing of £3OOO for municipal works, the result was 67 for and 70 against the proposal. Yesterday forty-five informations were laid against persons for driving or riding rapidly round street corners. One of the forty-five was driving his Excellency the Governor a£ the time the offence was committed, and another is Councillor Briggs, one of the most active in the endeavors to have the bylaw enforced. At a meeting last night preliminary steps were taken to form an Australian-Tasmanian cricket club. This afternoon the Chancellor of the New Zealand University publicly presented diplomas of the B.A. degree to A. O. Newton and H. Hill, the first successful candidates in Canterbury. Congratulatory speeches were made by several members of the Board of Governors of the University. Timaru, Tuesday, The Supreme Court criminal sessions commence to - morrow morning before Judge Johnston. There are twenty prisoners, and twenty-six charges, from child murder down to larceny. Mr. Richard Turnbull, M.H.R., has been appointed by the Timaru Borough Council a delegate to the conference of municipalities. It is reported that Mr. Woolcombe, R.M. at Timaru, has been requested by Government to resign his position. Dunedin, Tuesday.

The annual report of the Education Board of Otago is just published. It shows that there were 173 public schools in this district in 1877, and that the average attendance was 11,749. The education reserves yielded £5263 last vear.