TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 323, 7 May 1877, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

[from our own cobkespondents.] «. Dcjxedix, May 7. A LARGE PURCHASE. It is reported that Mr. Joseph Clarke, the Victorian millionaire, has purchased the Kurewoa estate. TUAPEKA COUNTY. The opposition threatened by Tapani-i to the unity of Tuapeka County is strongly condemned. DISGRACEFUL SCENE IN A CHURCH. There was a disgraceful scene in St. Andrew's Church yesterday. Millar, whose opposition to the introduction of the Presbyterian Hymn Book was dismissed as frivolous by t'ie Presbytery, interrupted the service by reading aloud an extraordinary worded protest, which he flung at the minister's head, and retired. EDUCATION. Mr. Fitzgerald, of the Normal School, speaking at the meeting of the itute, stated that Professor Shand at the present time, was considering a scheme which, if adopted, would do very much to raise the standard of education, and improve the condition of schools and schoolmasters. Hi said lie was not at liberty to enter into the details of the scheme at present.

RUSSELL V. SMYTHiES. From what fell from his Honor the Judge, in banco to-day, ifc is probable that a new trial will be granted in the case of Russell v. Smythies, for misdirection. THE TEREMAKAU. The Star s special correspondent telegraphs that, at the Tereniakm, a shaft bottomed gives 2|dwts. to three dishes. The miners on the ground say ifc will prove the Ball irat of New Zealand.