SPECIAL TELEGRAMS (Per Anglo-Australian Telegraph Agency) Dunedin, Monday.

Waikato Times, Volume VII, Issue 386, 3 November 1874, Page 2

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS (Per Anglo-Australian Telegraph Agency) Dun edin, Monday.

fomshoro, whroh the contracts an- now engag -.1 rocUuMi.i.',. JV.iar hin tt 1 /' ,\>.v Auila td i'iuics offoroa <\t 7s disoouut, l~>s paul up. Line ox Honncssy's bulk brandy tjuitted at 9s bel ; ca->c freely oliered at s*)s to o4s, auty paid. It appears that the Stamp Ddpartinen* has been in a \ery unKiitiilactury slate in regard to affoidL.g proper facilities to tlie pubLo for several years. The late Uiininiasiun of Enquiry into the ch.ivgos made j ugoui^t Bt-andon have made deli'-i 3ncies m plain that the (ioverniuont iutend to reorganise tho whoLultair t 'iid place a legally qualified person at its head, which, aoeo^iiag, to persons best acquainted with tho working of the department, is absolutely iK-t-essary. It is supposed that young Bathgate will g.jt the appointnu-ut. liaiiitbvd hns left Allens Opera Company through dissatisfaction. Th^ Company ih just back to Wellington from Wauganui. The visit was a iailuro. Henry Bjdim-d, the celebratod Victoriau pedestrian, was charged at ''.3 Magistrate's Court to-day with forgery at Sandhurst. He was remanded to Victoria. A large number of deaths havo been registered this month, a large pi oDoftiori being measles and bronchitis.

Duuedin, Saturday. Papupti is being backed heavily for the Melbourne Cup. In bunco Judgo Chapman has givi-ii an important decision in re G. M. Bell and if. Wontwortb, who in June lodged applications wi h the .Southland Laud Board for land at 20s. per no. c the day before the proclamation increasing the price of land, to £3 an aero was gazetted. Tne judge holds that they are entitled to the land, but leave to appeal against the judgment has been granted. If the decision is upheld it meant* a loss ci £20,000 to the province.

(jbristclimcli, Saturday. Mr Mcllroy, the merchant, has boon arrested on a charge oi obtaining money uuder kilse pretencob irom dithers bonud to the Palmer River by the t ' Comet.' Th« cisc must break through, as lio has a telegr.im costuming what ho has done from the .".geutrf in Dunodiu. The barque ' Expiv'ator ' has been seize.l and advertised for silo on ' Wednesday. It is a complicated affidr. S. T. V, Whitmore, the lato secretary of the Lumpers' Society, has been committed for trial for embezzehng £75 of the society's money.

A patient named liemickson jumped from a uii.dow in the top btoicj of the hospital, on *atur- .' tv ni"ht. He was mad when admitted, but that W was so wus unknown to tlio authorities. He died half an hour after his leap. According to 'uriviitp telegrams received by Ctusek-y, l'apapa is unlikely to start tor the Melbourne Cup. Liuhne is daily" growing in ]>üblic favor. The 'Junes learns that Frofebsor Jl.wtliornc, Reclor of the High Ki.lux>l. bumwos remaning. __ _

i jAttelton, Monday. Ai lived— Duke of Edinburgh, after a passage of 99 days. Sue bring. ->75 soul:, ; there were live "births ftnd three <l«itli8 on the voyuge (infants).

(Viom the Duly Soiiiikmn <_'ko=s ) Tiuirnnga, Saturday. Inform. lion has Won Liid undpr tin- [lUjouwug Act which will |.ioUl)l.\ m.ike public alUho p.irliculiin wganliiig Llio fwirtul death ot a native due , Ariha, who foil into the boiling spring when div I ut !?<itiirmi.

Napier, Saturday . A .mieial holiday will bo held on Monday a. w ,niiTwi»oiuti«ii of 'the Munition of tho rrounc, Horn -Wellington. Tne s.s. • Southern C oss irt«u.»i ior Auckland at six to-night with 54 head of cattle and »1» sheep. The dmru-r pvwj m honour of Sir I). Mol^n ib advertised foi 10th SVemlK-v. Tlr- 'Southern Cross' has on board tuciiU fat bullocks tor exhibition at tho Auckland A"iicnltui-il bhow. Tbc uniumlß wwe shipped by Ah AlelliinU, and toi»«ign«l to JTiulier and Co.

Wellington, Satuuiay. IV rnvJiniiuniy piospectuH ib 111 ci i dilation of >■ Joint Stock (Vn.jany for the puidms*? oi'Tliorniluii