SPECIAL TELEGRAMS. (From our Own Correspondents.)

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 537, 28 October 1875, Page 2

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS. (From our Own Correspondents.)

Auckland, Wednesday evening. The steamer Hero passed the Bay of Islands- at four o'clock this afternoon. The B^aipai-a Railway opening "will be cele-, bra ted by free trips to-morrow; TJbe fishiag boat Lilly was caught Id a tquall in the Mannkau, and sank. Two men, Robert Nicholls, and Louis Drake, Tvore

drowned. C&arlea Biggins, a Cheap jack, was fin&'liwehty-jivfc shillings' for bringing ashore "jewellery ofi the * value of four pounds^without} pas^tig a^'trj^ * , , - ' , ' - Wellington. r It is^nflerfitood^hat the ' yesult of the Court of ' Enquiry >on tl*© conduct of Colonel McDonnell, and Brissenden's letters will be nothing more than an expression of regret that he should have been so ill advised as to"f6t&ift possession for some three days of a letter not intended for hitn, and the Court entirely exonerates him from all blame or responsibility for the manner the letter came into his'posseslion. Dunedin. The Superintendent and party arrived at 2.15 p.tn. The demonstration 'by the crowd --#aB very feeble.-, r There were cheers intermingled with groans, and yells. There was no formal address. The banqaet to-night is not expected to be a -very biiiliant succe^s^ f