SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 717, 20 January 1877, Page 2

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

Auckland, last night. It is understood the majority of the Eden Council favours bringing the County Aot into operation. The well at Seooomhe's brewer y, from which the <sity water supply was lately dvawii, collapsed, carrying with it the •pumping maohinery. The damage is estimated at £1,000. The cutter Glance is wrecked near Tairua. The master and mate narrowly escaped. Brootnhail has written to the Waste Lands Board accepting- the terms B'ipu-

lated for at last meeting, for the Bile of 5 :,000 acres at Te Aroha. The bead quarters of the native office will be permanenty fiied at Auckland. The Star states, on the Attorney Geueral's authority, that where the Counties Act is not brought m operation, or bo rate levied, the sub idy will still be payable. Where the Counties. Act is not m force, the subsidy will be paid by the Government, direct to the Highway District. Dr Pollen remains a week longer at the East Coast, settling the native difficulties there. The early departure of the English Gricketerß from Melbourne for Hokitika has disarranged Bennett's plans, who arrived from the South to-day. The matches m Auckland will probably be played here on the 30th .inst., and on the Ist and 2nd of February. Weekly sales 1 0-day? Cheese, 7J ; provincial bacon, dd to 7d, Ohristohubch, last night. The Otago v Canterbury cricket match stands thus: • Christohurcn, first innings, 133 ; Otago, 21 ; Canterbury, second innings, 139, Neils m making 57 (not out), Leeche 25, Moore 16, Sweete 15, Alpe4. Helensville, Thursday. HELENSVILI.E it ACES. Maidun PxiATr, — Mag's Foal lsfc. Setti.bb'B Racb. — La Belle, Ist. Hklensvillb Handicap.— La Belle. Ist. HtraDLß Raor.— Pukeko, Ist; Mag's Foal, 2nd.

The AROHANATrvrBB, sayj the " Thames Advertiser" of the 17th inst, who have been bo obstructive of late, and who appeared armed on the b inks of the river on the occasion of the excursion trip the other day, hive shown that it is not all, bounce, by firing at Rapata, an Ohinemuri native, who was on his way to the Waikato attend a Lands Court. He was not injured, bat did not irritate the Qjaaahu natives by proceeding after that threat, and relumed to the Thames to take the steamer for Auckland, from whence he wi 1 proceed to Waikato by rail. The " Thames Evening Star," ef the I6tb, Fearos from a pigeongram, received that day from Paeroa, that the Native* who started for the Native Lands Court at Cambridge were turned back by the Aroha Natives, who were fully armed, about 40 strong, and camped, oa the Northern boundary of the Aroha Block.