SPECIAL TELEGRAMS. (From our Own Correspondents)

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 536, 26 October 1875, Page 2

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS. (From our Own Correspondents)

'Auckland, Monday evening. STlio 'inter-provincial pigeon shooting match takes place on Nov. ninth. The first .prize is a oup, v value seventy-five pounds ) ten men will will represent each province. /The trial trip of the steamship Wellington'was very successful. nSke at-tained-a speed of -twelve "knot 3. Ninety gentlemen dined on board. -The secretary of 'the Canterbury 'Crciket Olub writes that a team from that- Province will be unable v to visit Auckland this year, especially, because they intend to send a team, to Dunedin. The Phoebe has arrived — ! passengers, Major Jackson, Messrs Swanson and Passmore.

' Tatjranga* M* hopes of saving the Blonde have teen given up. Capt. Sellars reports'that he Inmted all round the Alderman in Company with the Ringleader, but there were no signs of the vessel, which muet have gone to pieces among the rocks,

GItAHAiVSTOWN. . Arrived, the brig 'Drover from. Newcastle,,/fcrMih # a cargo of coal; just; -a fortnight ouL ty,hea. ojj the West of Now South Wales she 1 met with a serievS ot vvater-sjiouts, one of which cai'ricci away

w'^g3> v •(WHO?* - n»'* i jtf*-'M — ■ qetf Tiopmast. IhexJure 'has a few pounds <$specin|ens, Th^j^neral crushing 13 l«isin£ fpten£kl.^They had 900ozs. of djjtaMgatoa I for lasfc/ week's crushing, $tiioug!i 'the uwakl Average is only 600ozs. • ( , * '/" , '.' WELINGTON. -.The Conxmlttee of inquiry re McDonnells, censure him' for reading and using Brissenden's letters. The Government will dissolve the House and issue the rwrjto.fcj? tite general Aa moh^m the new rolls are ready.