TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume III, Issue 615, 23 April 1878, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(per press agency.) '. WELLINGTON. April 22. The Easter offering at St, Paul's Thorndon, yesterday, aniouuted to L 97 7s 6d, the largest sura ever collected on anj Sunday at any Church in Wellington. The proceeds go to the Incumbent, the Eev. Mr: Harvey. • The Hinemoa left at noon to-day for Greymouth. She will take Sir J. Coode from there to Milford Sound, and then to New Plymouth, and probably Patea and Wangahui, before taking him to Auckland, via West Coast. April 23. It has been definitely arranged that Parliament will not meet before the middle of July. Sir George Grey will leave Wellington in time to attend the Native meeting at Hikurangi on the 30fch inst.

Mr. Saunders, ex-Superintendent of Seised, will contest the Cheviot with Sir Dracroft Wilson. Mr.. Saunders is understood to be a supporter of the present. Government. _—- »■;.-'— .v.. DUNEDIN. ' .; ' April 22. The new Oddfellows' Hall was dedijated to-day with "great cereinoivy. -Judge Mr.; Stout ral) delivered addresses. Mr. Bracken i recited "an original poem on the occasion^ Dr. Smith, of Balclutha, wins the first prize of LIOOO in Cameron's Consultation an the Christchurch Autumn Handicap. 4> ALEXANDRA. April 22. The Natives are hourly arriving here for the Hiknrangi meeting. Tawhiao has sent for food from all the surrounding settlements. Waitara arrived at Hikurangi yesterday from Tawhiao with twenty bullocks for the meeting, which will be a large one. <s, HOKITIKA. April 22. The population of Westland County is 11,653 ; Grey Comity, 7772. A report has reached town that two brothers named Spencer, the representatives of Messrs Burton Bros., Dunedin while on a photographic tour up the Waihq River at the foot of Mount Cook, discovered some payable gold on the Waiho FJat. They returned to the stores it Five-mile Beach, where they purchased mining tools, and returned over a very precipitous country. Nothing definite is known as to the prospects obtained, but it is believed that there is sufficient inducement for the present to abandon photographing for gold digging, as they left with a miner fully equipped for a trial of the ground. The Spencers have been trying very placidly the adventure of reaching the top of Mount Cook, under most unfavorable weather, and had several narrow escape^ The Reef at Butcher's Giilly, near Hokiiika, is reported on so favorably that a party is being formed to erect crushing plant. GEEYMOUTH. April £3. Sir John Coode and Mr. Blackett arrived here on Saturday, to inspect and report on the Harbor Works. At a meeting of the friends of the late Alex. Reid, journalist, held on Saturday night, it was' resolved to raise a tablet to his memory in the churchyard of his native town (Wick, in Scotland), and to invite friends in all parts of the Colony to assist.