SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 931, 11 June 1878, Page 2

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

AUCKLAND, list night. The Secretary of the Improvement Commissioners quietly gained yO3session of the Graiumer School Leys early to-day Til© Hon. Mi 1 Sheehau and party

left for Holcianga m. the Hinemoa Messrs. Lewis Bnbhers' creditors resolved to wind up the estate, under deed of arrangement. The Acclimatisation Society* Secretary reported that out of ten ; thousand Tahoe fcronfc forw&rtfed byi Air Thomas Rus?e"l, . only thousand were alive. A consignment of seeds 'from* America ready for distribution has aniv&d from Sydney, per Rotorua. [per peess agency] NEW PLYMOUTH, Friday. .£14,000 worth of grass seeJ has been Shipped from here this- season. [lIRESS AGENCY.] N NEW PLYMOUTH, last night. Rewi telegraphed to Sir George Grey as follows : — " Your word is good." Be sure to meet me ou the ;2lst June." Rewi is expected at Wliite Cliffs to-day. He will he afc Waitara before the 21st. • Only a few followers will come with him at first, the main body coming afterwards. NAPIER, Saturday. Mr Meller reports the sale of Nathan's Ahaura leasehold property of 8300 {acres, m Tojoga Bay district, with 3500 shesp and 50 head cattle, for £4800, for Charles Clark, Kaikoura The lease has 17 years to run. WELLINGTON Saturday. £t is stated, that m all cases where the acceptance of , tenders for the construction of sections of railway and other public work's was pos poned, peudiug advice from London as to the , floating of the loan; the Government have resolved to let the contracts. Mr Stout bas left for Dunedin, and will probably address his constituents while there. It is rumourod here that the Hon. Dr. Pollen intends resigning his seat m the Upper House, as he believes such a step will, tend to pave the way towards getting his pension settled, about which there has been considerable discusson and correspondence since Sir George Grey's Government has" been m offce. . • WELLINGTON, last nigh*. • Parliament is further prorogued till the Ist of Tuly. Seymour Thorrifi George received a requisitio n from the Hokitika electors asking him to stand for seat. Gerald George Fitzgerald is also announced as a candidate. OAMARU, Saturday. THE 'GRAIN. MARKET. The recent heavy rain has entirely prevented transactions m grain. Quotations — Wheat, 4s 3d ; oats, 33 to 33 4d ; barley, ss ; flonr, £11 to £11 Os, f.0.b. ; oatmeal, £18 ; pearl barley, £20 ; pollard, £5 5s ; bran, 4s. WELLINGTON, Saturday. MR LAJtNACH'S RESIGNATION. The Speaker hss received a telegram from Mr Larnach, dated 31st, tendering h\s resignation. It is notified that the seat is now vacant. TAURANGA, Saturday. A fire occurred at Cook's Tauranga Hotel, by the bursting of a kerosene lamp, but, owing to the promptitude of Mr A. Asher m extinguishing the same the consequences were not serious. WELLINGTON, Saturday. A telegram has been received from the Native Minister, instructing that the late Native Lund Court Judge, John Rogan, be recalled forthwith, and that Mr A. Wilson be re-appointed Native Land Purchase Commissioner for the East Cape. The • New Zealander' announces that Thomns Austly Mauf jrd has been appointed Disrrict Judge for Wellington and Wairarapa districts. He will probably resume his new duties m about a month. Yesterday tenders were signed iv the following contracts :— Extension of railway from ICi Iwi to Waitara, six miles ; and port extension of Nelson and Foxhill Railway. LAWRENCE, Saturday. ' A great deal more damage has been done by the rain than was- at first imagined. There are considerable losses at Weathers tone's Gabriel's, Mid Waitehuna. Several claims suffered greatly. Several slips have occarred at Tunnel Round Hill. The roads are more or Jess seriously mj ured. The flood was the heaviest remembered here during the past eleven years.