TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume III, Issue 761, 18 September 1878, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

WELLINGTON. September 17. • Arrived : Barqnentine Jessie M'Donald, from Foo Choo. She left on the 7th July, and brings 9,882 packages of tea, 275 ; packages of matting, and sundries. The ; ship and cargo are consigned to Turnbull . and Co. The following programme is arranged , for the Wellington Racing Club's meeting ■ to take place on the 6th and 7th February next :—On the first day there will be , a Plate, of 75 sovs.; Hurdle Race, of 00 , sovs.; Wellington Gold Cup, value 100 sovs., with 500 sovs. added ; Hutt Park Stakes, of 50 sovs.; and Flying Stakes, ; of 50 sovs. Secoiid day—"Wellington ■ Derby, of 100 sovs.; Hurdle Handicap, , of 7i| sovs.; Racing Club Handicap, of 200' sovs.'; l*ree ±jandicap ? of qQ sops.; Empire Plate, of IOQ sovs.;' and Consolation Stakes, of 50 soys, AUCKLAND. September 17. Arrived : Ship Pareora, from London, 92 days out. The City of New York has arrived. The news is anticipated by the Claude Hamilton. The Victoria loan of five millions includes L 1.000,000 for the purchase of the Hobson Bay Railway, L 200,000 for Parliamentary dwellings and new law courts, L2oo,ooofor state schools, and L 2,000,000 for new railways. The last general election cost L 9,400, and the census L 12,400. Woodyer, agent for Burton's Australian Circus, and Hayman, Kelly and Lyons' Minstrels, have arrived from Sydney, to make arrangements f'or opening here, f —U—: BALCLOTHA, September 17. The necessary statutory declaration and [i ,don has been filed witli the R.M. i.'.nirt here, praying for an enquiry into i me election for the East Ward; Balclutha, on Thursday last, and pvaymg that phe I same may be declared void, upon the j ground that Messrs .Runne and Campbell, l two of the apparently successful candidates, did not poll the number of votes the returning officer declared that they did, and that the votes polled for the other candidates were counted as having been polled for Messrs Dunne and Campbell. This petition only refers to the East Ward ; but another will be fd ecl ? praying that the whole election may be declared void, in consequence of numerous irregularities. CHRISTCHURCH. September 17. A billiard tournament is now taking place, in which the best known local billiard players are engaged. At a sitting of the City Council last evening, a letter was read from Councillor ■ Rt'dcliffe, wishing to withdraw his resignation. He was told by the Mayor • this was impossible. A young girl named Doran, aged 18, i the daughter of a respectable storekeeper, ; has been missing since Saturday. At the Chamber of Commerce meeting, s some interesting correspondence was read i from Mr. Monckton-Synnot, on the sub- [ je.e-t of' introducing Colonial wools into China and .Japan, Mr. Moorhouse, M.H. R., has presented I the Borough of Sydenham with a section of land worth L4OO for Borough purposes. September 18. A meeting of Cornishmen was held last night, when a Uoimnittee yas formed to collect 'subscriptions' for the pur.pose of majring a New Zealand gift from the 1 Cornish, in. this Colony for the new cathedral in Triuio. ) A public meeting held at Kowai Pass on Monday evening resolved that the best 5 route for the railway from the East to the West Coast was via Waimakariri. and Taipo. Six American engines have arrived at 5 1 Fort Chalmers in the ship Southminster, - from New York, for the Christchurch and Dunedin sections of the railway.