TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 779, 14 June 1877, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

[Press Agency.] SPBOTA L TEL KG RA MS. Australian calo a rams. THE CHAMPIONSHIP BOAT RACE. Sidney, June 12. The Port Darwin line is interrupted, and therefore there are no European calograins. Bush and Tricket are in good favour for the boat race. The former is heavily backed. [Press Agency.] Auckland, last night. Several Highway Board Chairmen have telegraphed to the Governmenb asking for subsidies. Today a reply was received that the amounts had been paid into the bank. Newmarket gets j>Bo out of £200; Reniuera, £2O, out of £460. Other Boards a similar proportion. In reply to a telegram for Ponsenbvs share of the County subsidies an answer was received that the amount is between ,£l5O and £2OO.

Capfc. Young arrived from Rorotonga to establish a mill for the manufacture of cocoanut oil, from copra.

Moanatairi advanced to £lO ss. Mr Pilling's funeral was largely attended.

Sherrin for libeling Reed, is sentenced to three months inprisonmeat in consideration of three months already served. Gumming the publisher is fined £IOO, and to be imprisoned till the amount is paid.

Dunedin, Tuesclciy. The proposal of the extreme Oppositionists to have a inorniug papev

at Wellington during the session has not' been abandoned, and there is good reason for believing it has been "positively resolved upon. A movement is on foot among the licensed victuallers to adopt the suggestion of the Bench at the last licensing meeting, namely, to deal with no brewers who supply any grog-sellers. Hokiutoa, Monday. MAORI SENTENCED FOR LARCENY. For larceny, a Maori was sentenced to six months, and goes down by the Queen to-day. Our R.M. is hard on Maoris.—'Star' Correspondent. Napibr, Monday. DREADFUL ACCIDENT. A son of Dr Hitchings, the coroner, aged 12, while playing on the trucks on the reclamation works, attempted while they were in motion to'get from one truck to the other, but fell between. Three loaded trucks passed over both legs, fearfully bruising and mangling them. He is not expected to recover. Ibid. MR SHEEHAN A GOOD TEMPLAR. Mr Sheehan is'said to have joined the Good Templar society.— lbid.