SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 916, 7 May 1878, Page 2

SPECIAL TEL EGRAMS.

ALEX AND R A, Monday. Sir George Grey and the Native Minister and party have gone on by canoe to WUakarirq, but will return here m the evening and will proceed, overland on horseback to Rikuiwngi to-morrow morning. ALEXANDRA, last night. Sir George Grey and Mr Sheehan remain hepe tq : nigl}t, Mr Sheehan Avent r.p Kopua this afternoon, Has just returned. There was nothing going- on at Uikurangi. Te Xooti left there threatening vengeance that Ngakau's hj^ad should feed him and Waikato his hoi'^s. CAVALRY VOLUNTEER BALL. TE AWAMUTU, Monday. Xhe inyitations to the Te Awamutu Vqluntecr Cavalry Ball, on Friday, jfumj^Qr at present lijQ. The Committee are making adinivrable arrangements for the occasion. Preparations are being male for some good horsoracing to-morrow, at the close of the drill. AUCKLAND, list night. ]?anuy I>ifon, a child of ll t e laudlord of the Wellington Hote', struck a match, and ignited her nightgown. She was so severely burned that the acoident may end fatally. A whirlwind, entirely local to Remuera, occurred yesterday, carrie 1

awaj Mr Whewell's now verandah, lifted a 500-gallon tank at Mr Jackson's, aad drove it through a stable, blew down a cow, knocked down a shed at the race-course, and rooted up a large tree near the Harp of Erin. The farm offered at Razorback, by Tonks, »nd Co., was withdrawn. A Merury Bay man was brought i before the Magistrate , charged with ■ attempted murder. The Carina publican case is now going- on. ~~ WELLINGTON, Friday. The Edinburgh leaves Singapore to-day for the break m the cable. Mails leave B.itavia for Singa- : pore on the Gih, Hth, 20th and • 29th ; the mails leave Singapore for JEhtava on die Btb, Utli, 20th, and 38th. ; WELLINGTON, Saturday. The Government have suspended 1 Mr James Booth, R.M, and land . commissionar on the West Coast, ! fur alleged improper dealings m native lands near Otaki, for the \ benefit of himself, or his brother, . whose services as land purchase , commissioner m the neighbourhood ■ were recently dispensed with. It is • found, however, that he has secured ! a block of 430 acres, and another j individual block of 1600 acres near ; Otaki, to the Joss of tho Govevn- . ment, and through James Booth's J action. A Royal Commission will be appointed to inquire into Booth's v t conduct. . WELLINGTON, last night. _ The analysed contents of the [ stomachs of the race, horses which ' ; recently died at Castlepoint contain r a quantity of arsenic. ', Mr McCVUand, agent for the '. Bank of New Zealand, Featheri s'one, and his assistant, Mr Luxford, were driving- towards Featherston, I wheu the hoise bolted, capsizing thfl buggy, Mr McCleland is dangerously injured and is not expected to recover. Mr Luxford ■ escaped uninjured. OAMARU, Saturday. THE GRAIN MARKET. The grain market at the present time is inactive. Prime milling wheat, 4s; oats, 3s to %$ Gd ; malting barley, 4s Gd to 4s 9d } potatoes, £2 ss ; flour £11, 11 10s f. o. b. ; bran, £4; pollard, £5 10s ; oatmeal, £13 ; peral barley, £20. DUNEDIN, last nigh.. Two hotels were totally destroyed by fire at Kingston. The fire originated m Kerri's upstairs, and extended afterwards to Anderson ( s. Three men were roasted to cinders. John Dougher. R McCann, and the third is unknown, Anderson was insured for £800 m the New Zealand and National Insurance Companies. Kerr is insured for £000 upon the hotel.