SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 687, 9 November 1876, Page 2

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

Auckland, last night. The GoV' rnment have intimated that a board of officers will shortly assemble in Waikato, for the purpose of testing S oall's sytitem of musketry as compared with that commoDly adopted. Twenty single men, immigrants per Oraii, went to Hamilton this morning. A number were scut to Gisbornw yesterday ; nearly all found employment. A gas explosion occurred m the itrong room of the National Bank The measengT \ras burned, but no serious damage.

CiißlsicnUHOH, lust nighfc. CHRISTCHURCK RAOFS. Tadraor won the free Handicap by thn-e Jeneths. For th« Rilway Plate, Guy Fawkos made » bad start, and refused, bat affcerwardi came up splendidly, finishing second, only by one length behind. To-d»y.

MAIDEN PLATE. Mirtdleton 1 Fallacy 2 Fanny Fisher colt ... ... 3 Middleton won by » short neck.

OHRISTCHURCH DERBY. Songster ... ... ... 1 Finny Fhher 2 Fallacy 3 CANTERBURY RACES.

CHRISTCIIURCH FREE HANDICAP. Tadmor 1 liaac Walton 2 Nearo ... ... ... •• 3

This r»ce was won by Tadmore by three lengths oDly.

RAILWAY PLATE. Panbnry ... ... .. 1 Guy F.kwkea 2 Mangle 3

CANTERBURY JOCKY CLUB HANDICAP. Gay F*wkea .. ... ... 1 Templeton 2 Rob Roy 3

Dunedin, last night The convention mot to-day. Eighty peons wfro present. Maoandrew was • eee.ved with clieera, by all standing. Mr Thomson, of Clutha, was elected chairman. R solutions will be submitted, demanding tbe re-rall of the Governor, tho creation of Ola^o into a separatr colony, and the »ppt intment of Grey and Mac&ndrew to go to England, and lay the matter before the Imperial author.ties. McLean \& putting off tho meeting with the Hon Mr McLean till after the convenViou.

Oamaru, Tuesday. The Municipal Council passed a resolution refusing to t»ke p»rt m the Dunedin Convention, and approving Abolition as the outcome of pubho opinion JQ the Colony.

Guahamstown, last night. Mr Rowe was receive 1 with a torchlight procession last night. A large crowd proceeded with him to the Paul tic Hole), wbere they dr»nk his health.

Taurknga, Ust night. The natives who met Mr Brabant opposed the opening of Kuim.i, declaring themselves su'jects of King Tawhiao. The meeting was a failure. Another will be held.

Wellingtox, last night. The steamer Agnes successfully laid thirty -seven miles of the Cook* otraits Cable Careme, the French billiard champion, g*ve Wei- ton four hundred, and heat him easily at the French game. He ma le 93 •uccestive cannons.

Timaku, last night. The sheep farmeri cjinbinnd to r« fuse more than 16a 8d per hundred for shearing. The men demand 20a.

Wellington, Tuesday. THE SECOND CABLE. The steamer Agnes left yesterday with |38 miles of cable, and Dr Lemon on board, and will commence operating at ones. Active preporatiom are making to divide the counties into shirei, with the . view to the early election of members ot the several Conaty Councils, with the view to their meeting before the end of the year or early in January. The Hon- P Whitaker left for Auckland iast night, via the East Coast, to arrange the tranfer of Provincial Institutions to the General Government, and other matters required by the Abolition Act at Anckland. He will asume the office of Attorney-General, and remain the resident minister there.

ILNESS OF SIR D. McLEAN. It is feared that Sir Donald McLean is »cry «eriou«ly ill. He ia quite unable to Attend so any holiness, and ha« been io for the past month.

BIENHEIM. A MAN MURDERS HIS ILLEGITIMATE CHILDREN. There are terrible ditoloiurei at Pioton. A man named Woodgate, living at the mouth of Queen Charlotte Sound, la charged with the murder of hii illegitimate children by hi* brother* daughter, by dashing out their brains againit the •tones m they were born. He ha« been remanded till Saturday