SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 7010, 4 January 1877, Page 2

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

Auckland, last night. TUESDAY'S KACES. Handicap Steeple Chase— -McGee's Per* fame, 1 ; McEae's Butcher Boy, 2. Nine hordes ran. Perfume and Butcher Boy bad at all to themselves. The former winning "by twelve lengths. Auckland Plate— Wall's Ariel, I j Kay's Danebury, 2. Selling Kace— Ray's Tommy Dodd, 1 ; Hunt's Skylark, 2. Stewards Handioap — McQ-ee's May Moon, 1 j Walter's Isaac Walton, 2; Kay's Fallacy, 3. •Consolation States—Gainsborough, 1; The Don, 2.

The -passengers by the mail steamer at the quarantine station are indignant at the irregular" supply pi provisions, and want of a Doc or. They aver that the alleged case of 'small pox was nob vurio:» at ail. There ia: no disease among tie pisßseTigerßi except: With two Tronic case. In. :the Supremo Court, George Colbvoo 1 ? charged, with beaf&ng Jiwnes King of the telegraph department, at Tauranga, ewer -tlie head w»t&. a heavy frying pan fr.-niHe. King said he bad gone to prisoner's lodgings to see if bis wife was there. The doctor deposed that prosecutor was in a very weak state' from loss of blood after 'the assault. Prisoner was sentenced to four jears imprisonment. Tr.e Hero arrived from Sydney, the news is anticipated by cable. Wellington, last night. Diptheria is very prevalent. A crew is to be sent to Nelson regatta. NfW PlTl mouih, last night.

The Mokau natives say the report that the Maoris threatened to burn any steamer entering that river, in untrue. DtTNEDiN, Tuesday. MR DONALD REID JOINS THE MINISTRY. Mr Donald Reid goes North to-day, to join the Ministry, as. Minister of Lands and Immigration.