SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 915, 4 May 1878, Page 2

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

ALEXANDRA, Thursday. Pekauui Te Hui camped at this settlement last night, and goes on to Hikurangi this morning. After a tangi there, Te Wheoro and party return to Alexandra to meet Sir George Grey. Te Kooti was ordered away from H'kurangi yesterday for taking spirits there contrary -to regulation. Rewi will go up from his settlement when Sir George Grey arrives here. Te Wahunui, with the Mokaa natives, have not arrived at present. AUCKLAND, last night. At the Racing Club meeting, held to consider MeGee's protest against the decision re disqualification, the minutes of the former meeting showed that Mr Carpenter (a Waikato settler), Captain Eraser, Messrs Marks, Buckland, Morriu, Russell, and McNaughton deposed to having seen pulling. McGee made a long defence to the effect that he had instruclei his boy to pull the horse so as to win by more than a head, in orckr to save (he next handicap. He had openly asserted that the horse could win, and he meant him to wiD. He said he had only £2 on the race, nad offered to bet Captain Eraser on him. He did not see the necessity fsr calling evidence. The Committee resolved to endorse the previous resolution, an I, not considering the evidence in the Perfume case sufficient, resolved not to take action in it. Tho Board of Education rejected the proposed increases in the officers' salaries. Mr Lusk resigned his seat, and was appointed solicitor to the Board. The Hinenioa arrived to take the Governor South. DUNEDIN, Yesterday. Mr Donald Reed meets his constituents next week, and will announce his resignation on the ground of length of the session, and that he cannot support the present Ministry, as his constituents would wish. OAMARU, yesterday. Wheat, 4s ; oats, 3s and 3s 6d.