TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5417, 7 August 1878, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

CijuusTcuuuou, Tuesday. • Public meetings are to bo held in the north part of the province with the view of urging the Government to construct the railway via Amberloy to the "West Coast. The Sydenham Town Council last night pnssed a resolution requesting that . one or more members in the General Assembly be allowed for the "borough. Also a resolution protesting against tho Government only reserving 835 ' acres of land iis ( an endowment for Sydenham, instead of 2000 acres. . •. Dunedin, Tuesday. From the annual/report .of the _ Female Refuge Committee it appears that thoir efforts to reclaim fallen women have been.attended with a iiiiuimuu amount of success. -

Caroline Young; charged with concealment of birth, was discharged to-day. Mr, Ward, the Registrar of the Supreme Court, is to succeed Mr. Watt as Sheriff.

Professor Ulriolrgives it aa his opinion that the Himlon district presents n favorable field for quartz-miuingi’etiterprise. . Kkisfidn, Tuesday. ‘; Three feet of shqw foil 1 ist night, which' is; the heaviest fall over witnessed here. It is sti|l snowing, and there is ub appearance of a change. • 1 .- ■; A miner named William Leonard, was killed in his but near the Victoria mine on the Murray Creek this morning by a tree, falling on him.

Grahamstown, Tuesday.

After days of argument and much evidence the Land Court to-day gave judgment as to the Waikari block, excluding the Hou. Hoaui Nahe and Wi Taipara from participation iu the same.

Mr. Rowe, M.H.R., loft for Wellington per Rotorua to-day.