TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1017, 24 July 1879, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

WELLINGTON. July 24. A telegram has been received from Sydney relative to the admission of live stock to the Sydney Exhibition, and especially the quarantine of sheep. It states that the quarantine regulations are very simple, if rightly used, that the magnificent sheep of New Zealand ought to be represented, and that sheep hi quarantine will be fed for sixpence per day. At the Supreme Court yesterday, Cooper and Brodie were acquitted on a charge of committing a breach of the Arms Act at Gisborne, by selling guns to the natives.

CHRISTCHURCH. July 23. There have been IS7 coursing licenses taken out this year, against 72 in 1878. The performances on Monday and Tuesday for the benefit of Mrs Hill were well attended, though the cold weather interfered with them a good deal. They are expected to produce LISOO. A man in the country district, Selwyn County, has actually had to shut up a public house because it would not pay. A number of tlio men employed'on the Northern Railway extension works beyond Amberley made a raid on the Weka 'pass Hotel yesterday. The landlady, Mi.ss Baldwin, telegraphed to Christchureli [<ii* police assistance, and several constables have been sent up to quell the disturbance.

TI-MARU. July 23. According to the statement of the exMayor (Mr. Clili'), who resigned last night, owing to financial difficulties, the Bank of New Zealand refused to send the waterworks debentures, and declined to give any reason for doing so. The Council now contains but live members out of ten, and no one seems inclined to come forward. The schooner Young Dick is now fortyseven days out from Timaru to Sydney, with a cargo of grain, and a deal of anxiety is felt about her, as she has several passengers on board, including two ladies and some children. She was spoken in Cook Straits about a week after sailing.

LAWRENCE. July 23. The County Council, at its meeting today, appointed a committee to wait on the manager of the Colonial Bank to ascertain if the Bank would pay cheques fur current expenditure, on the Council guaranteeing to have the overdraft reduced to L 2500, as required by the Bank, as soon as possible.

NEW PLYMOUTH. July 22. The natives ploughing at Tikorangi belong to Wailii." Eighteen men are engaged in ploughing, and nine women in planting potatoes. The natives have ploughed about six acres. A detachment of the Armed Constabulary, from Qakura, will proceed to Tikorangi to arrest the offenders.

AUCKLAND. July 24. Owing to the scarcity of provisions at Samoa, the Mazeppa, Ovalu, Cornet, and Gale have left for there with produce. In the case of Government against Robert Graham, for unauthorised occupation of native lands, Judge Gillies has sent back a case us stated by the Magistrate for amendment. The Cambridge Native Lands Court has closed. The native title was extinguished over 02,000 acres at a cost to the purchaser of L 15,000. The decision of the Court in the Okania Block was against the Ngatihaua, who thereupon took armed possession, destroying the crops. Ngatihauirangi, instead of fighting, under the advice of the Court, is taking legal proceedings for their removal. At the anniversary of the Auckland branch of the 1J.A.C.8. Society, the report showed 227 members and LIOQ7 of of funds. The year's receipts were LCO4, and the expenditure L 419.