TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1896, 25 May 1889, Page 4

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

At Auckland Mr CWiol'y, the American Consul, decline.l to b-come a tneintur of the committee for lh«J teception of tin' Irish rielegatep, on the ground lint Uie policy of the American Government forbade i'. .Replying to a deputation op. Thursday, the Pre'tninr expressed himself in favor of largely endowing a University College in WoliingtoD, bat said Government had to curtail expenditure, snd lie would make no promißfl as to their action. The Mid'and Railway Company are calling for tecde-s for tha Ahiura stction, which is about eix niiles iu length. The party who accompanied the Minister of Mines to (he Stewart Island i>in fields have returned to Dtinedin, and the Stnr has an article on Thu'fiday night c"ni-:dn-ing a very men on th* ground ne-m t<» be do.ng nothing, aiid rhe it-die■stinns are nor. at ail hopeful. Tha Masonic Lodges in Puredin havr.approved of the Grind Lodge movemen 1 . Only £513 h now r quired to complete the capifcil of £15,000 for the exhi dtion, nnd steps are to be tak»n to r ise that Bum in a few dnyp. Applications for cpace are corning in freely. A lawn tennis tournament is 'o be hdd at Dunedin during the time the Exhibition is open. Already over £9O havo been subscribed for prizes. The barque Caberfeidh, for Sydney, laden with baulk timber, went ashore at low water on Tory shoal, Kaipara, on Wednesday morning, whih attempting to cross the bar. She was afterwards towud off. ~ T The meeting of creditors of i. L. White, bankrupt, was held at Auckland on Wednesday", when the debtor wrote, intimating that as he had found it impossible to make out a stitement, of his receipts and cxpendilute from the data sit his disposal, being only fragmentary, he could not attend. This being the second meeting at which White was absent, a resolution was passed instructing the Official Assignee to proceed against him for contempt of Court.