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Patea Mail, Volume II, Issue 186, 20 January 1877, Page 2

A Charter has been received by bis Excellency, the Governor, whereby degrees conferred by the University of New Zealand will be recognised as academic disfinctions, and rewards of merit, will be entitled to rank, precedence, and consideration in the United Kingdom and in the British Colonies aud possessions. A despatch from Earl Carnarvon, to this effect, is published in the latest Gnseffe, together with a copy of the charter in question.

In a Ga'/s.tle of the lUh hist., the sale of Section 18, Block 40, in the town of Carlyle is authorised, the price being fixed at £5, to the Patea Institute. A. S. Allan, Ksq., has been appointed Registrar of the Court of Appeal of New Zealand.

A hundred pounds reward is offered, for flic recapture of Horopahara, who recently escaped from New Plymouth custody. This will bring him, we fancy, for his fellow countrymen will sell him for that sum. Wo arc sorry to hear that Air Dorrett, jun., met with a severe accident jmsterday morning. It seems that he was trying to rope a heifer in the stock yard, but be could not get away in time, and the animal rushed at him, jamming his leg against the. rails, and breaking it. Dr. Walker was sent for, and lie set the limb. We wish the sufferer a speedy recover/. We would draw the attention of the authorities to the bad state of the road, between the bridge and Taranaki road, it being, in some places, dangerous to travel over. Wo arc glad to say that M.- (Mgers, propric. tor of the Australasian IPitel, who has for some time been suffering from rheumatism, is gradually recovering, and wc hope that in a few days he will be in perfectly good health.

Major Tukc is still engaged in reference to taking over the district from Major Turner. It is expected that ho will have finished to-day, when he returns to New Plymouth.

Mr Wray lias taken over the 11.M. Department, ami may be considered installed as Resident Magistrate. The sale of Captain Blake's interest in the Nonnanhy township, under a writ issued by L. D. Nathan, of Auckland, was held yesterday, at the Court House, by the Sheriff. The whole of the mortgaged property was bough 1 ,, by Joseph Leonard, on behalf of Diehard Kearny of Auckland, for the sum of 2s. Gd. The purchaser now under conditions of sale, occupies Captain Blake’s position, in so far as the mortgagees are concerned, and is liable for (lie principal and interest to the. several mortgagees. Tin’s, we should imagine, is good news for them. The liability of the purchaser is, as far as we can ascertain, about £1.500.

A ease of horse-stealing was very near breaking down at the .Supreme Court in Wellington lately, on the ground that the stolen animal was described in the indictment as “ a mare,’’ whereas it might have, been a “ filly.” A ease was cited in which an indictment charging a man with stealing a, cow w;\ - - h- id <o b f - be 1, lev;:.use llm amm.d was a aeifor.

It. m aiidars tool that a Melbourne bookmaker lias won !SWOi) In- the All-England cricket match in Sydney ; but that the rest of the bookmakers wore all on llio wrong side of the fence.

Anything tending to relieve the acuta painv of rheumatism will b ; welcomed ao a beam, therefore we abstract the following from a late .Sydney paper, and as it is so .simple it can be tried by any person suffering from that complaint, Cloths soaked in stronir vimegar. retire to bed, and in fifteen minnt.es, if previously racked with pain, sleep will ensue, fam indebted to the. Re,v. J. G. .Southby and Mr Isaac .Shepherd for the above, winch cured me and one, of my children of rheumatic fever when doctors failed.” A lady named Grooby, for over thirty years a resident in Nelson, died there a few days ago, and at her funeral the blood relatives formed no inconsiderable portion of tim cortege. The Mail says : Of lineal descendants of the deceased there arc at present living - ten children, sixty-four grandchildren, seventy-four great grandchildren, and four great great grandchildren, without mentioning relations by marriage. Of this immense family, the eldest member is a daughter seventytwo years of age, who was present at the funeral. The seamen of the steamer Warnamboo! have struck work on the question of overtime. Captain Coffey, well-known in shipping circles, died to-day.