SPECIAL TELEGRAMS (Per Anglo-Australian Telegraph Agency )

Waikato Times, Volume VII, Issue 408, 24 December 1874, Page 2

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS (Per Anglo-Australian Telegraph Agency )

Auckland, Wednesday. The Bank of New Zealand shipped on board the Wong.t Wongd for Sydney, 3,951 ozs. of gold, vabe 116,399. A waterman named Conley, has been fined .£lOO, for having twenty puuuds of smuggled tobacco in his poshe^ion. He pleaded that it was left at his house by an officer of the Robario, but failed to prove the assertion. There has been a narrow ■ escape from fire at Nome's hairdresser in Shortland street, to-day. Supposed to have been caused by a spark from a chimney from an adjoining house, which whs on tire. It was extinguished after burning a hole in the roof, by the prompt application of water. Sailed, Wonga Wonga, for Sydney.

Ohristclmrch. Wednesday. The following is the programme of the Autumn Eace Meeting to be held on the 23rd and 24th April. Trial Plate, lOOaova. 1£ miles St Ledger Stakes, lOOsovs. 1 mile 6 furlongs 132 *(!« fihaninapnftStflkeH- lOObqvs. 6 furlonjg&__ otj

George Handicap, lOOsovs. 1 mile. Hindicap Hurdle Haoe, 50aovs. 2 milea. Great Autura Handicap, 3030va. 1 £ miles. Selling Race, SOsovs. 1 mile. Flying Handicap, 150sovs, f mile. Conaolatioa Handicap, 40sovs. 1 mile. Hack Bace, 10 so vs. 1 mile. Dunedin. Wednes lay. Subscriptions are being collected to give a testimonial to the Hon Mr Reynolds. \ Salmon trout weighing seven pounds was caught in the harbour* (Fnm thr Dailt Sopthbun Cwsi. Wellington, Tuesday. The Jockey Club at their meeting last night, resolved to hold their Autumn Meeting on the Hutt Park course, about ten dayß after the Canterbmy meeting. The following races were decided on — Grand Stand Stakes, £60; Autumn Handicap, £75; Flying Stakes, £40 ; and a hack race. Captain Hepburn, late of the sjs. Rangatira, died at Fitzroy, Melbourne, on December 11. The sals of the rural sections in the Fielding Settlement ware irk less demand than the torn sec tions, and the greater portion of them were withIrawn. The suburban sections fetched from £3 te 25 per acre ; rural lands £2 per acre. In som< instances town eoctions fetched from £5 10s to £6 >er acre. The result is considered satisfactory. Che total amount realised at the Bale was nearly .10,000. The Marque« 3 of Normanby presided »t the disribution of the Wei ington College prizes to-day .nd after a few kindly remarks presented the prize* o the scholars. A meeting held this afternoon, appointed an in luential committee to ■commemorate in a suitable uanuer the arrival of his Excellency, and to decid< ; lpon a public bnll to be giv.en the firs>t week in Jan vary, tickets to be 10s 6d each. A great success it mticipated. The Evening Post publishes Mr Travers reasons for declining the appointment of Attorney-General He stated that .» hen he accepted the offer made to him he was not aware that the Attorney-Gene ml was under the direction of the Minister of Justice, and in effect to be treated us being a Civil Servant within the provisions of the Civil Service Act, 1866, and unless, he says, the position be admitted by the Government to be such as is evidently contemplated by the Attorney-General's Act, 1866, I Bhould not feel myself justified in taking the consideiable sacrifice j of income which my acceptance of office would entail upon me. Ships and immigrants forward », 1 to l\ew Zealand by the Agent-General during September were as follows : — Assaye, for Auckland, 419 souK ; Cospatrick, for Auckland, 429 souls ; Gerahnne Paget, for Canterbury, 395 souls ; Clarence, for Hawke's Bay, 348 sous; Carnatic, for Mirlboicugh, 297 souls ; and the Crusader for Canterbury, with 374 so uls.