TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5440, 3 September 1878, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(PER PRESS AGENCY.) Auckland, Monday.

A public meeting to-day passed a vote of congratulation to Lords Beaconsfield and Salisbury on the result of the Berlin Conference. New Plymouth, Monday.

The farm owned by Major Stapp at Tkorangi was sold to-day to Mr. Taylor, of Canterbury, for £ll 10s. per acre. The sale of Stratford, the new Government township, on the Monntaiu-road, also took place, A number of quarter-acre sections were sold, one fetching £IBO. The total amount of the sale was £2215.

The survey party on the Waimate Plains will shift from Kaupokunui to-day to Otakhio, when they will work on towards Omuturangi, the furthermost boundary. Te White says that the 17th of March next will be the Aceldama or day of blood, and after that the day of the death of himself and brother at the entering of the gate (Parihaka), evidently referring to the general amnesty to take place at a meeting called by Rewi on the 18th March. At the last meeting he said, “ Let the surveyors go on the land ; it is still mine, lam going to portion out hot only the lands of New Zealand but the lands of the world.” This is stated by those who are his interpreters to mean that he will advocate the individualization of the lands. Timaru, Monday, Shortly after five last evening, the ketch Glimpse, which had been gradually drifting towards the shore at Caroline Bay, touched the beach about 300 or 400 yards from the brigantine Lapwing. Rollers are breaking over her frightfully, smashing her foremast. She had been taking in eight hundred cases of preserved meat for Port Chalmers. Most probably all the cargo will be saved. The ketch Palmerston is still weathering it out, but drifted during the night. It is expected that a public meeting will be held this evening to take steps towards getting subscriptions for the shipwrecked sailors. A popular entertainment will be given to-night at the Mechanics’ Institute. The proceeds are to be devoted to a fund for the sailors, some of whom assist in the entertainment. One body has just been washed up on the beach.

The criminal. session of the District Court here was held to-day. Charles Clark was charged with tbe larceny of clothing, but the .charge was dismissed. A case against Bright for larceny was withdrawn on the application of Mr. White, Crown Prosecutor, he finding from the evidence that it was robbery, and not larceny, and robbery being beyond the jurisdiction of the District Court. In another case of larceny against Charles Clark he was found guilty and sentenced to three years. Tucker, for larceny of a bridle, was sentenced to four years. Norman Mace, for larceny of a counterpane, pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to three years. The Customs revenue for the month of August amounted to £1538 ss. Id. Vital statistics for August : Births, 23 ; marriages, 7 ; deaths, 10. Ashburton - , Monday. The first Mayoral election took place here to-day, and created considerable excitement. There were two candidates. The following is the result: —Mr. Thomas Bullock, 111; Mr. Donald Williamson, 49. Christchurch, Monday. In the Supreme Court to-day, before Judge Johnston and a special jury, the case of Digby v. Digby and another, being a suit for divorce by the husband, was brought on. The parties were married iu Victoria in 1865, and afterwards lived in New Zealand. The respondent left her husband in 1876 and joined Wheatleigh’s dramatic company in Australia under the name of Nelly Daly. The alleged criminality took place in Dunedin with a member of that company, and was conclusively proved by the witnesses examined. There was no appearance of either the respondent or corespondent. The jury found for the petitioner without leaving the box, and also found that there was no evidence offered in support of the pleas of the respondent. The Court made the usual decree.

A statement appears in the Lyttelton Times this morning stigmatising the telegram which lately went the round of the Press, with regard to the Christchurch footballers kicking over a piestall in Dunedin, as an atrocious libel. The. writer says the fact is that several of the Dunedin team started out pretty lively and ready for any mischief ; that they were! accompanied by a couple of Christchurch footballers, and that the stall got knocked over by the Dunedin men. The owner was immediately so liberally rewarded that he would like his stall knocked over every night on the same conditions.

Mr. George Darrell, with some new plays, is expected to be in Christchurch about March next with an Australasian company. The Charitable Aid Board are about to make arrangements with Miss Fidler to give a course of lectures on cookery to tho elder girls of the Lyttelton Orphanage. The Kennedy, Cheevera, and Bent Minstrels left for Wellington in the s.s. Wakatipu to-day, after a splendid fortnight’s business here. Designs are called for a four-storey hotel, which will bo tho largest in Christchurch, and which is to bo built on the American principle. Mr. Wearing, of the Terminus Hotel, will bo the proprietor.

Dunedin, Monday. It is expected that the southern railway from Dunedin to Invercargill may bo completed within six weeks from the present time. Kobert Daggn, a well-known Otago wrestler, has accepted the challenge of Thomas, of Victoria, to wrestle for the championship of the colonies. The match will probably take place at Dunedin in November. Twenty acres of land in the North-East Valley have been purchased by Captain Baldwin for £9720, being the highest price hitherto paid here for suburban land. The half-yearly meeting of the shareholders of the Standard Insurance Company was held to-day. The report and balance-sheet were adopted, and a dividend of 10 per cent, was declared. The chairman and other shareholders spoke hopefully of tho present and future prospects of tho company.

The Mayor and other railway authorities are besieged for free passages on the occasion of the opening of the railway from Dunedin to Christchurch. The ordinary free passes will not be available on the occasion. All passes will be issued by Mr. Conyers, Commissioner of Railways. A special train will convey visitors to Bluespur on Saturday. Invercargill, Monday.

The Southland Times was. published this morning in the name of the Southland Times Company. It announced the change in a modest little leader.

A section of an eighth of an acie in Eskstreet sold to-day for £ISOO, being at the rate of over £46 per foot. The purchaser was Mr. Harvey, solicitor.