SPECIAL TELEGRAMS

Oamaru Mail, Volume III, Issue 624, 3 May 1878, Page 2

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS

(from ouk own correspondent.) DUNEDIN. May 3. The Waikouaiti section of the Southern Railway is to be opened on Tuesday, and the Moeraki sections to Pukeviti ten clays afterwards : both departments pledge themselves to have through communication from Amberley to Invercargill established by July 1. The Registrar-General is instructed to prepare a return showing the total number of holdings in the Colony ; the number of holdings of less than one acre, and from one hi live acres ; but it will not contain the name of each laud owner.

Henry Kay, minor, has died suddenly at Lrlenure of heart disease. Arrived—Otago, ship, from Glasgow.

The gram fromjChe Agent-General, conveying the inf° rD faMon that, in consequence of the present! disturbed state of Europe, the International Telegraphic Cable Conference, which! was tot have been held in London during t ne of June next, I has been Postponed for a year, viz., until June, 187fj_ ' It is that Mr. Clark, Hydraulic will-recommend the Corporation" t y use me ters for the supply of water, Either for domestic or other t] ie on ] v W ay by which waste of water can be effectually prevented. A fall of brick-work occurred in the Rimutaka tunnel to-day. A man named Patrick Moriarty was killed outright, and John Matheson severely injured. The latter is expected to lose the use of both his eyes.

AUCKLAND. May 2. The following amounts were paid over at the settling on the Autumn Races : Walters, L 353; M'Gee, 206; Thorp, L3S ; Edgar, Ll7 ; and other small amounts, making a total of L 742. The census of Coromandel shows a total population" of 2003. Count de Zaha leotures on the " Literature of Poland," in aid of the local charities. Mr. Shee'han visits the Bay of Islands and Hokianga after the Kingite meeting. Telegrams from Alexandra state that Te Kooti was near Kopua yesterday with twenty followers, and got drink from the settlement, Tawhaio sent peremptory orders for him to leave. Te Kooti has since gone to Te Kuiti. Rewi will probably attend the Hikurangi meeting without followers. The Ngatimaniopotos propose a second meeting with Sir George Grey and Mr. Sheehan, at Te Kuiti. Several Europeans have gone to Hikurangi, in defiance of the wishes of the Government.

At Onehunga last night, a candle bo.x half full of vestas caught fire, endangering a valuable block of buildings. The fire was extinguished with the loss of only about LSO worth of property owing to its prompt disoovery. It is supposed to have been caused by mice eating the matches. Mr. M ; Gee writes a letter to the Star, protesting against his disqualification for the alleged pulling of Falcon.

HOKITIKA. May 2. Ryan's second trial for murder is concluded. The prisoner was acquitted. The Union Bank shipped, per Tararua, for Melbourne, 2419 ounoes gold. _ « KUMARA. May 3. A lire broke out at 3 o'clock this morning at Bnlstrode's Club Hotel, which was consumed. It also destroyed Murphy's (bootmaker), Fley's (butcher's shop), Robinson's (confectioner), Mulligan's (draper), M'Lean (grocer), and a building formerly occupied by the Bank of Australasia. The efforts of the local brigade prevented further destruction. Speadler's Crown Hotel was only saved by the exertions of volunteers. The insurances on the various buildings are not yet known, * —— LAWRENCE. May 2. A most important land sale took place yesterday. The land offered was chiefly rural, and of excellent quality. There was a large attendance of buyers for the deferred payment sections in Tuapeka, and the competition was very keen. Several choice sections brought from L 5 15s. to Li). Land of special value in Tuapeka East and West brought high prices, as did also land in Glenkeunich, Cookston, and Slapperdon. The land realised upwards of L 12.000, and as the County Council receives in revenue LI2QQ, the district will be greatly benefited by the sale. To-morrow about 80 applications will be heard for land under agricultural lease in the Tuapeka and Waitahuna districts. There is likely to be considerable competition, as the land will be submitted at auction. Land for agricultural settlement is getting scarce, and those people who have money seem seised with a kind of mania, and are speculating to an es.tent previously unknown here.