LATEST TELEGRAPHIC.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 150, 3 May 1879, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAPHIC.

(PER FEESS AGENCY.) H A movement is on foot to purchase a bil- • B hard table for the patients at the Lunatic H Asylum, H Thomas Jowett, who once occupied a res- ' ■ pcctablo position iu Otago, got twenty-four . H hours to-day for drunkenness. Ho was pre- H viously convicted for larceny, H Kealls, who attempted suicide, will bo S proceeded against as soon as ho has recovered B sufficiently ; E Ono firm of solicitors, it is stated, 8 from Home this mail £35,000 for n in Wellington on loan, jjR . \ Jj Fifteen thousand names were enteral in tho Visitors' Book at the Museum this jw, Hfflj and from 300 to 400 visited it on Sunday g|H afternoon during the two hours it was thrown w In the Supreme Court to-day Sellar souglit to recover £I,OOO from" Captain Stafford for 1 . fl false imprisonment. Travers raised a teclmi- B cal objection against the case being heard. fl The Judge allowed the objection, and the : H case was struck out. It will be brought on ■ again at the next sitting, 9 In the District Couet to-day Davies, 1 engineer, sued the Tramway Company for £l5O for services rendered, As it appeared from the evidence that the plaintiff first charged £2 per day, and subseqently increased it to £3, the Magistrate gave judgment at the rate of £2 a day for fifty-three days for plaintiff and costs. OAMARU, Friday. The Governor, Lady liobinson, and Suite arrived by special train from Lyttelton about ' ! 1 p.m. this afternoon. After receiving ad- 1 dresses from the Council and Harbor Board, they proceeded to inspect tho Habor works. They then went to the Star and Garter Hotel, where a luncheon was provided. The party went on to Tokomairiro the same afternoon, AUCKLAND. Thursday. The Town Clerk is engaged in preparing suggested amendments in the Municipal Corporations Act, the Eating Act, and kindred measures, and at the opening of Parliament they will be laid before it for consideration. The City Council arc making preparations for the reception of the Governor. The Waste. Lands Board refused Mr Vesey Stewart's application for another block of land for a third special settlement. In the letter urging his repeat, Mr Stewart showed that £24,000 worth of improvements had been carried out at Katakatiby the settlers introduced by him, on a block of land which, three years ago, was covered with fern, Friday, At a stormy meeting of the Grammar School Governors a scries of resolutions ' were moved by Judge Hill, and supported • by Judge Fenton and Crookes, and carried; Wa, to the following effect"That the functions of endowed Grammar Schools is to furnish higher education than that attain- /' able in the common schools. That teaching young children elementary branches is contrary to the School Trust, and injurious to secondary education, The Grammar School course should commence at a higher point than that which common school pupils can attain, and the school ought to be open by means of scholarships to pupils from those schools ,who have succeeded in obtaining them," DUNEDIN. Wednesday. The opening meeting of the Metropolitan Coursing Club of Gtago commenced at Tokomairoro to-day. Am Aged Stakes, For 32 Hounds, at £3 3s each, with £lO added; winner to receive £SO, second dog £2O, two dogs £lO each, and four dogs £4 each, Mr Henry Driver's Tiger Keeper beat Mr G. M'Garvin's Bombay. Mr'Caverhill's Juliet beat Mr James Daniel's Scaldings. Mr A. Thomson's Richmond beat Mr Jas. Daniel's Honcydew. Mr Robert Smart's Tisman beat Mr Reid's Chester. Mr J. A, Duthie's Briton beat Mr George M'Garvin's Essendoii, Mr T. Brydon's Ladybird beat Mr D. T, Mercer's Element. Dan O'Brien's Leo ran a bye. Mr H. Prince's Magic scratched, The hares were very scarce. Tho competition will probably be finished on Saturday night. CHRISTCHURCH. Wednesday. " Sinbad," in the Weekly Press writes Lone Hand did not come by tho Rotorua as oxpectcd, owing that steamer arriving by a different route, The grey will probably arrive about the time these linos go to press, I understand there is every chance of Fishhook going over to the Hawkcsbury meeting] where there will he little doubt the old hoW\ will give a good account of himself. ' J The hounds arc now all in work under Turner's care, at Sam Powell's. There are now ton couple of working dogs, all of whom \ are iu fair condition, There is prospect of having a meet in North Canterbury during the Governor's visit, hut nothing has been definitely arranged. Mr Eich, of Bushby Park, near Oamaru,. : j has promised a couple of deer to hunt during •' the coming season, The weights of the Grand National will . ; probably not lie declared to-night as the handicappcr is unavoidably out of town. j (sroiAli CORRESPONDENT OF MESS AGENCY,) 1 I' ALEXANDRIA. ' Thursday, Your special is anxiously awaiting the pro--mised visit of the Premier and Native Miiv

I later, for it is now understood thoy will come up at Rcwi's invitation, as Tav/kio does not seem inclined to yiold, although ho is not at all ndverso to tlio visit of tlio Promier. Major To Wheoro asked him to bring down his war canoes to Alexandra to take up the Ministerial party to-morrow, Tlio Ministerial party aro coming up from Ngaraawhaia to-night by steamer. Nothing fresh has occurred at Kopua. The natives havo had food given out to them, and aro content to wait somo days longer for speechifying, Thelievs Buddie, Lawry, and SchnaekenI burg, old Wesleyan ministers, arc hero visiting old scenes of labor, wlioro they havo stations eppiiseated by Tawhiao, and anxious to imprtpi the. occasion by spreading broadMaori testaments, and endeavoring to revive the old feeling which tlio outbreak oflBG3 dispersed, There aro many other Europeans present, and Tawhiao has ordered proper supplies to be set apart for their uso. Ministers aro almost certain to be censured on arrival for broken promises made at Hikurangi, The making thoWaipa-Kaglan road and gazetting the Maori lands, which it Was understood would be given back, itc,, will be discussed. There aro upwards of four thousand now on the ground. Thompson's house is being prepared for the Premier, and other Europeans leave there to-day. Kewi has sent another invitation to the Government party. Tawhiao says it will take three days to complete his talk,

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