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Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2809, 14 February 1878, Page 2

A telegraph station is now open at Waitara (County of. Taranaki). Thee* was no business at the 8..M. Court this morning. *

At Wanganui Begatta, in addition to the events reported in yesterday's paper, the following races were contested:— Volunteer Whaleboat Race, £35, four miles. Three started, won by Wanganui Rifles in Danger. Ladies' Plate, three miles, £30, won by Wellington Dolly Varden crew. Canoe Race, £10. Seven started, won by a crew from the, local foundry.

The property of the Golden Arrow Company, Tairua, comprising battery, engine and boiler, blacksmith's and mining tools, tramway, &c, was to hare been sold by auction to-day by Mr James Craig, but at the hour appointed the auctioneer notified that the sale would be postponed till next Thursday. A portion of the effects which had been brought in, consisting of sets of stocks and dies, vice, jacks, &c, were sold, and fetched good prices.

Mb H. Alley drove over from his farm at Hikutaia yesterday seventeen head of fat cattle and IS3 sheep, by the new County road. The cattle and sheep have been purcnased by Mr Banks, and they average—the former about 800lbs, the latter about BOlbs each. If the land were opened we should soon be independent of Napier for beef and mutton.

In reply to a letter of the 24th January, covering petition to the Government signed by about 4L' 3 inhabitants, and praying that Captain Fraser, II M., might be appointed to the charge of the land purchase negotiations left incomplete by Mr James Mackay, Mr George Harcourfc has received from Mr E. Fox a reply, in which it is stated that the petition will without delay be laid before the Hob. the Native Minister, wif h whom the matter rests.

A COEBESPONDENT of The Times says that before the fall Plevna the Eussians had it in mind to send into the place the five or six thousand prisoners they made at Dubnik and Telis, but that Osman Pasha himself opposed the measure, and answered the bearer of the flag of truce to the effect that if these men approached Plevna he would receive them with cannon shot, and that if Hakki Pasha was among them he would hare him seized and shot on the spot.

Weiting from Plevna before it fell into the hands of the Eussians, a Times correspondent said : An old Jewess, of a very advanced age, is the only one who amid the general consternation manages to look after her own interests, and profits by tl- .. nsion. £l:i gee: by the naee of tiarah, and is a fortune teller. The door of her house is open from morn to night, and the house itself is filled with officers and soldiers, many of the former being of high rank, who cume to consult her on their future lot. She derives an immense profit from this source, especially since her predictions of the death of officers in one or two cases, and promotion in one or two other instances, have been verified. It is even said thatOsman Pashu himself has not disdained to consult the ancient Sarah, who has predicted for him a most brilliant future provided he is not made prisoner before the 12th of December.