TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 858, 15 December 1877, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

S !> SGIAL- T- Mb W RAMS. ■■ ( Press Agency.) A ucKhA nd, 'ast nigh t. At a "meeting oi' the executive of the Grey Bacept/ioi Committee, it was s/ated that a sum of £50 had been collected, and it was resolved to erect triumphal arches, An address is to be presented by the Mwyor, and at a meeting at night another address will be presented. . Mr Billaaoe aurhori'ivoly contradicted the strtt.-meat that he h.id severed his c mnectioo with the Government partly. . Produce sale {to-day — B'-aamas realised 2a 6d; opmuion f iwln, Isßd to.Ssg. Spanish, 2- ; geese, 3s 61 to 5« 6.1.5 onions, 11^ 4i to 13a 4d ; : io atoes, 2s to 6 i per cwfc; C «nterbury hams 'and bicon, 7^ t to B£d. VVklli gion, last ni,'ht. Instruotioas h»ve bef-n .. uiven to withhold for the present all increases of salaries votel thus year to mem bers uf tne Civil Service. i Timarl*, last ni^ht. The grand jiry final no bill m the libel case brought by Judge Ward against the proprietors of the • South Canterbury Times.' • Taupo, Thursday. AN ENGMSK A.RI£SC DBS-. POILbJD BY THE HAUHAuS. The H.tuhuua af Ritoaira have seized the horses and equipment-., baggage, &c., of Mr Connelly, who had just returned from sketching views of Touurariro and Raapehu Mountains. Mr Connel yis now at I'okano, on the south side of Lake Taupo, seeking assisbanoe from the frievUy chiefs ; bnb Topia Turora, a friendly ceief of Roto.tira, is just know absent at Welling''- on.. WELLixorOiV, Thursday. Arrangements have been completed lor a change m th.v date of the sailing of the Snn F/uncisco mail boats, whereby, from January next^ the service wilt, m so far as practicable, be forth nightly wih the Suez maii-bo;Us. Wellington, Thursday. SIR G. GIUBY'S R3TURN TO AU"CKL4ND. M-. Ltniao i has recarned from kelson very better, and remains here till the others return. Mr. M.can-irew wiL prjbably le.tv« f,»r Ou^o at the end of the week, An absurd nnd entirely untruthful report h.is been published here, that {'Hrliamttnt will re-^s^nible m February. Thci-d i^^ no iikeliho >d at present ot itj incetiiiy; Defure June. It is aao untrue that any j oflers of .Ministerial seats ha«'o be-u ' eiiher made or refja^d since the tiooße rose. I'hv Kadmatea of the : late.Goyernoieiit iuoluded a number of departmental increases m a»l«»ri«s,

and when ./tue Appropriatlm Aob passed. Ministers were asked to authorise the drawing of the arrears of increases from the oommencement of the financial year, as .usual m such ca|e|rj. to d 0 this in|pfte de]>asmen^?sßrß*actu--0 d '^%^"|^ be. thpughJlthiijmigVes^f^lffi^Ninto gr S^ 9#^uic||thKin^ises Were the cHyt ground^o th«ly stfffftoed all the authoriMef'uatir^Sir "* George Grey's return, when the merits' of each case will be looked into. H. W. Farnall permission to try his claim Jjo compensation m regard to hi'ai Auckland ' immtgratidir^a^etto^^ m the Supreme , Courly promising not to raise any technical cfefence, but to allow the. ease to. be determined on its ni^rits. |:1 U cUim U £1500., Tue Housis 'struck V: out^ai vote of £500, which ; woul*T jiay:** act.led the matter.. The.wrifc : be served this week.