TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 5616, 29 March 1879, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(per press agency.) Haweiu, Friday. All the Waimate Plains surveyors have been sent up the mountain road to survey some confiscated land in the Chester line, about which there is no dispute. The natives and Europeans are anxiously awaiting Mr. Sheehan’s arrival, and much satisfaction is felt at the announcement that he is coming here at once. New Plymouth, Friday. A large number of persons attended the Waitara regatta. The champion race was won by the Waitara crew against two New Plymouth crews. The cup was won by the New Plymouth boatmen. • Taupo, Friday. The steamer Victoria, which was sunk in the river here, has been successfully raised by Mr. D. Ferney. ’ Thirty of the Armed Constabulary are leaving this district for Wellington this morning. Alexandra, Friday. Te Ngakau is here to-day for seven tons of, flour and other provisions. r ' < ;■ The native meeting at Kopua is arranged for the 28th April. ' . Masterton, Friday. ; A woman named Smart yesterday had her attention called to a well by a dog scratchingviolently its sides, and found a child eighteen months old had fallen in. The child was all but dead, but is now recovering slowly. ’ • Auckland, Friday. : A fire broke out last night at Lilly Dale Nursery, One Tree Hill, which destroyed a stack of hay value £4O. It was partly insured.’; The owner was Mr. Green. The cause lof the fire is unknown. ' ! Young salmon are reported by the Maoris to have been seen in the Upper Thames. At the Police Court to day Michael Dervan, hotelkeeper, was fined 40s. for Sunday trading. ■ ’ ; Four boys, ranging from 13 to 17 years of age, were arrested for till robbery, when false keys and other house stealing implements Were found in their possession. ■ , The Kmg meeting is definitely fixed for 28th April. The Hinemoa has arrived from Kawau with Sir George Grey. Authentic information 1 from Kopua says that the native meeting will not take place until the 28th April. Invitations are being telegraphed to all parts of the island. The police are making another raid on weights and measures. The Bev. “Mr. Hill proceeds to the West Coast on Monday. Two more boys have been sentenced to private whippings for bolting from the naval training school. The report of the examiners on the Auckland College and Grammar School gives credit for proficiency in mathematics, but says there is general neglect of teaching in English compesition and literature. The head-master, replying to the examiners' reports, attributes this to the fact that the appointment of the late English master was a most unfortu- - mate one.

At the annual inspection of (die Artillery Volunteers last night, Colonel Paoke censured the talking in the ranks, and the noise made by public spectators. The Kaitangata Belief Sports promise to be a great success. The entries are large, It is stated on good authority that Grey heard nothing of the late proceedings at Waimate until his return’ here. He is in good health, though he has lately suffered severely from chronic complaints. ; At a meeting of solicitors to-day a Law Society was formed of all the solicitors in the Auckland District, subscriptions being fixed at two guineas, payable Ist May next, and subsequently on Ist January. Mr. Whitaker has given a legal ppinien that the harbor reclamations having ■ been brought within the city, the Corporation thereof is responsible for the making of roads, the cost of which is estimated at £II,OOO.

The" Hero brings the English Opera Company, consisting of Misses Wangenheim, Hand, Walton, Lennie, Leslie,. E. Williams, Nellie Robertson, Messrs. Florence; Browning,; Hodson, Crowthera, Sherwin, Professor Hughes, ’ Frank Maxted, Carl Von Riohty, Mitchell, Wilson, Mac Lean, Le Content, Bartolomeotti, and Pompei. •’ The following handicaps have been declared by Mr. IL P. * Lance, handioapper, for the Auckland l Autumn Meeting Easter Handicap : Pinfire, 9st. 71b. ; Sinking Fund, Bst. 121 b.; Chancellor, 7st. 101 b. ; York, 7at, 61b. ; Lady Ellen, 7st. 51b.; Merlin, 7st. 41b.; Peep

o’ Day, 7st. 31b.; Malvern, 7st. 21b.; Parawhenua, 7st. lib.; Elsa, 7st.; Resolution, 6st. 121 b.; Venus Transit, fist. 101 b. ; Gillie Galium, 6st. 91b.; Lalla Kookh, 6st. 81b.; Tamatea, fist. 71b.; liittle Wonder, 6st. 71b.; Yatapa, 6st. 21b.; Joe Leonard, fist.; Loch Lomond, 6st.; Xantippe, sst. 71b.; The Don, Sst. 71b. Steeplechase : Perfume, 12st. 71b.; Eversley, list. 21b.; Mora, 10st. 71b.; Auckland Kate, 10st. 71b.; Sportsman, lOst. 51b.; Loch Lomond, lOst. 31b.; Tamatea, lOst. 21b.; Don Juan, Sst. 121 b.; Harry Mount, Sst. .121 b.; Robinson Crnsoe, Sst. 121 b.; Day and Martin, Sst. 101 b.; Gazelle, Sst. 81b. A man named Buller, while assisting to discharge the Hero to-night, received rather severe injuries by several large sheets of iron fading upon him. Wanganui, Friday. The annual regatta took place to-day. The Maiden Race, in four-oared inrigged boats, one and a quarter miles, for a prize of £lO, was well contested from start to finish. The Wanganui Rowing Club’s boat won by half a length, Wellington second, and Wanganui Union third. The Union crew broke an oar soon after starting, and lost all chance of the race. The next race was the Senior Fours, in inrigged boats, two miles, for prizes of £2O and £5. The Wanganui Union crew won easily, the Wanganui Rowing Club’s boat being second—about ten lengths behind, and the Wellington boat about twenty lengths behind that. In the Scullers’ Race Hughes was first; Willis, second ; and Braithwaite third. The race for men under lOst resulted in the Union Club’s Transit coming in first, and the Wellington's Eclipse second. The Ladies’ Plate—Wanganui’s Tiger Lilly, first; Union’s Wanganui, second. The Canoe Race —The foundry crew Europeans, first; Maori crew, Kopeki, second. The Champion Whaleboat— Union’s Danger, first; Wanganui’s Elvira, second; the Fire Brigade’s Cutty Sark, third. Hokitika, Friday.

St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Church was , crowded last evening, when two postulants took , the “ white veil” of the Order of the Sisters’ j of Mercy. Bishop Redwood performed the ceremony. j The sittings of the Supreme Court will be adjourned from Monday to Wednesday next. , Napier, Friday. , For the most part of this week the Resident : Magistrate's Court has been occupied by hear- i ing a charge of conspiracy brought by Renata Kawepo against George Prior Donnelly and , Joseph Price, in relation to the sale of the racehorses Otupai and Tawero. The gist of the ] charge is that Donnelly and Price conspired to . run the horses up by fictitious bids, and induce Renata to buy at what is called in the information a fictitious sale. The case for the prosecution concluded to-day, and the magistrate was about to commit the defendants for trial when counsel for the defence said he would call witnesses. The case was therefore remanded till Monday. Donnelly some time ago married Renata’s niece. The prosecution is in the hands of Mr. Rees. The case against Messss. Sutton and Kinross is fixed to come on next Wednesday. There is a proposal before the Napier Harbor Board for a loan of £225,000 to pay off the present loan of £70,000, and with the remainder to construct a breakwater. Mrs. Lylec, wife of the Commissioner of Crown Lands, died this morning of apoplexy. She was an old resident and was much respected. Ashburton, Friday. J. O. Wason, member for Coleridge, addressed his constituents here last night, the Mayor in the chair. About 200 were present. Mr. Wason took the speech delivered at the Thames by the Premier as the text of his remarks, and spoke about two hours in condemnation of the Government and its actions and proposals, saying the Premier had made golden promises, but had not carried them into effect. He spoke of the Premier as a person who flattered the working classes and Maoris for his own political purposes, and ranted and raved against those who had done well for themselves as colonists. Mr. Wason condemned the land tax, favored a general property tax, and scouted the idea of electing our - own Governor, saying it would never come to pass. If it did, it would end in New Zealand degenerating to the level of the wretched South American Republic, where they elected a President one year to shoot him the next. Speaking on education, he said he hoped the people and Parliament would adhere to the national, and set their faces against the denominational system. Before sitting down, Mr. Wason said that owing to urgent private affairs calling him home ha proposed resigning his seat at an early date. A vote of thanks was passed after several questions of little importance had been answeied. Christchurch, Friday. At the Supreme Court to-day, his Honor Mr. Justice Johnston ordered the trustee in the estate of John Johnson to prosecute the bankrupt for fraudulently concealing a portion of his estate from his creditors. Judges Johnston and Williams leave for Duredin to-morrow. The first sod of the Northern Railway Extension for six miles seventy chains beyond Ambsrley, was turned to-day |by Mr. H. McLean, of Amberley. There was the usual speechifying. The fire of last night is a mystery. A laborer named Sullivan informs the police that about three o’clock he saw a : man jump over the front gate of the sawmill and run away. He challenged, but received no satisfactory reply. The police, however, do not believe the statement. It is still a moot point whether the fire broke’ but in the engine-room of the sawmill or the engine-room of the coffee factory., They are very close to each other. A large quantity of the machines at the sawmill were of a valuable character, and were to have been removed next week to a new factory,of Messrs. Langdown, at Sydenham. This firm estimate their loss over and above insurance at £ISOO, and Mr. Gillespie estimates his at £IOOO. ;The large upholstery establishment of Mr. White had S' narrow escape, as a strong-south-west wind was blowing at the time. The fire'was not finally extinguished until nearly ten this morning, long before which time the whole of the available water was used up. A male child a few days old was left on the 1 doorstep of the clerk of the Heathcote Road Board on Thursday night and abandoned. ; 7 Dunedin, Friday.

A three-roomed cottage at Kensington, which was insured in the Victoria office for £l4O, was burned down yesterday. Three deolaratioas of insolvency were filed in Dunedin during the past week. The principal sufferers by the floods appear to be the merchants and shopkeepers in Battray and MoLagga.n-street-', down which a perfect torrent of water, flowed. The former street presented an extraordinary spectacle this morning, for from the Eobiu Hood corner down to Bishop Moran’s residence the kerbing and channelling on the west side of the street had been torn up by the force of the water, and scattered all over the road, while from that point downwards the channelling had at intervals of every few feet been scooped out and ruts excavated varying from 2to 5 feet deep. The boulders forming , the pitching were carried down to the level part of the • street, and with the accompanying earth and clayey sediment from the hills spread over its whole width. Mr. B. K. Murray, of Battray-street, has sustained a loss to the extent of £700; Mr. Giivings, grocer, estimates his loss at £300; Mr. Isaacs* chemist’s shop is injured to the extent of £IOO. In High-street Messrs. Sargood, Son, and Ewen have had goods on the basement floor damaged to the extent of . fully £IO,OOO, there being Sini of water on the floor, which is about a quarter of an acre in extent. Mr. Pirie, hairdresser, opposite the Empire Hotel, and Messrs. S, J. Smith and Co., of the City Butchery Company, have been completely flooded, to the serious loss of the owners. In George-street a great deal of damage has been inflicted, mainly through the body of water which came down Vork-placa and St. Andiew-street. Messrs. Esther and Lows, grocers, estimate their loss at about £IOOO ; Mr. Janies Irvine, grocer, considers that his will exceed £400; and Mr. Palmer, china merchant, loses fully £IOO. : The half-yearly meeting of the Working Men’s Club was held to-night, The receipts for the year amount to £1531, and the expenditure to £1240. :

An inquest was held to-day concerning the recent, fire at Saddle Hill, in William Bartle's shop. Mr. Nation, solicitor, watched the proceedings on behalf of the New Zealand Insurance Campany. A verdict of incendiarism "was returned against some person unknown.

EaxCLCTHA, Friday. At a meeting of the Council to-day, all the members being present, the following resolutions, after considerable discussion, were carried 1. That the opinion of counsel {Mr. Macassey) be obtained whether, in the event of the Clntha County Council obtaining legal possession of the Balclutha traffic bridge, and in the event of its reconstructing the same, can the Council legally recover one-half the cost of the said work from the county of Bruce ; 2. That if the legal opinion be favorable, the chairman. apply to the Government for control of the Balclutha bridge under the Public Works Act, . . .