SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 926, 30 May 1878, Page 2

SPECIAL TEL E GRAMS.

: PRESS AGENCY. ALEXANDRA,' Tae^ay. It is considered here thafc there is but little chance of the Kingite meeting . coming off at present. Several leading chiefs say there is no hurry, and that it is plenty of time to consider Sit* George Grey's proposals ten years hence. The chiefs seeni inclined to ask for more than has been promised. ; AUCKLAND, last night. „ ..','A t,, r ,jblie. " : A^aitemata " '.'County, Council to-day Mr Dil worth stated on the authority v of Mr : J. :S. Macfarlane, that Government were making arrangements for the employment of twenty thousand natives at; lQs- a, day on a railway from , \Yaikato to Ta»auaki. ■ .-. ; It is reported that Major Itoberts -is- offered the Resident Magistracy j of Hawke's Bay. •' GRAHAMSTOW^, yesterday. A girl, niuo yuars old, was committed to the ladustrial School for five years for sbealiupr, frpm the d^yei] ing of . the Re v* Mr Neill. She opened the windovy^vhilst the people were 1 out, and -g-ot. into the house and packed up a ntr'naber of articles which she was ou "the eve "of carrying away Avlieu Mr . Neii) Returned. lii September last she, ..broke into the Thames School -at night. , , ; WELLT^GTdN,:TiiQadaj. y ; The County Council Cbtiferenceis to take place at Wellington on ! Monday, July 21, not the Ist, as. previously telegraphed. ■-• ■ - HOKITIK A, Tipday, William Smith's tender, J &> 7, 920, has /been accepted by the Harbour Board for the construction of harbour works. TIMARU, Tuesday. As shewing the high price of land m South Canterbury, Jonas Hart has disposed of Quiu Brother's farm at Makehi, of 740 acres,, lor .£1,6,530 — over v £-2 per acre. : A section of hand, consisting of 82 perches, m Timaru, opposite the police station, was sold for £800. . ' CHRISTCHURCH, ,Taescla 3 . Colonel Brett's station at ,Mouut Tarlesso has been sold for £11,000. It oemprised 21,000 acres leasehold. '

530 pro emptivo right, 800 freehold, , 10,000 sbop.|), and a house and ||fpH* 'kfiß^ltSwoy^lufe meeting the tJHtsa re'sjgfaijtemen^ih.ewed a credit ffip© bjßGnJ^afor uwrof a current T&veti\iGf(Wna oveWjfoO of old debts cleared off, notwithstanding the inclub iST'there'fdl'd™ m a very much" better financial pcstion than it was tication of J. McGee and O. McU-ees horse Fal»rf by itheSffuckland Club was endorsed. An application for removal of ' disqualification from McKay was refused. , .% _ t Middle Park Company 'sjcoilt St. George, own. brother to Eater, is among the Canterbury entries for the Dunediu Champagne Stakes. - < DUNEDIN, Tuesday. The erection of a new-^Rbman Catholic Cathedral is about to be commenced here. It will cost '£26,000, and hold 2000 people when finished. It is- proposed to ei;ect only a nave and ahiajile, -at present. , : /£hj3 /cost, of tliis^will be. £13000,' and will, accommodate £00. " Doherty and party have returned from Dusky Sound, ky the steamer i^ffiirb^nfffifTiolis' oF^pecimens from the . .copper lode there. They broke some 1 2 feet into the crown of the lode, .:ancllreporfc prosgepts as exceedingly favourable. THe*specilriens'tliey have' bi'bugnii ; are very rich m the more valuable copperore, with indications also of native copper. : / : ; The 'Herald' this morning, commenting on the trial of Whitaker v. Jones, j says that the cost of the pro: secution will be considerably under, while that of the defence, according ton a .bill eof costs recently snbmitted, will; amount to .£2,117 145., Amoug the items comprising the. bill are the fpllqwin* f-|-Paid Mr Rees, ' £540 • paid Mr Rees (refresher), £175 ; paid Mr Heslop, £270 ; refaesher ,to Mr Heslop, £137 10s;.. Jb is 'stated th|l|other similar items could be Gulled* from the bill of. costs presented by >Rees and Heslop. ■'