SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 938, 27 June 1878, Page 2

SPECI AL TEL EGRAMS.

WAITARA, Tuesday, 10 a.m. (From our Special Correspondent.) Mr Sheehan and Southern natives went up and formally inti'oduced themselves to Rewi on Sunday — a friendly greeting simply. Rewi seemed much disappointed at the absence of Wireniu Kingi, who remains at Ngatiraano — two days' journey in the bush. Monday and Tuesday were fixed for discussion, but being so stormy it was postponed until to-day, which will probably finish the meeting. About .fifty carts with provisions have been detained by the swollen state of the streams south of the Stoney river. 3 p.m. Nothing has been doue to-day. Rewi came down from the pa on the other side of the river, and paid a friendly v i4t to the Ministers. Tomorrow (Wednesday) the conference commences. Wednesday, 4.40 p.m. Nothing was done to-day at Waitara, Eewi removing immovable until either Wireniu Kingi or C. White, or his representatives shall be present. AUCKLAND, last night. James Foley, killed on the Onehunga, railway last night, had been visiting Mr O'Rorke. It is supposed he was struck at the crossing. He was formerly a member of the Provincial Council. A mass meeting in favor of a central station was held. Sir George Grey telegraphed that neither time nor his health would enable him to visil Auckland again before the session, and his presence , here was unnecessary, ©wing to Mr j Macandrew being here, upon whose zeal for the public good the citizens might rely. . The City Council have received a telegram from the Government urging them to undertake the management of charitable reliefs. Replying to a telegram fr .m the Mayor, Colonel Whitmore said "To summarise the wishes ot the Government I may say I desire to pay half, the remainder being supplied by grants from local bodies and private subscriptions. At present the Government really stops from subsidies all that it pays, so that the locality really pay the whole. The Government cannot ensuie economical administration, and there is danger of a trade being made of pauperism if the local committee is subsidised by the municipality. If you take it over, we would pay half the entire cost, making- n 0 stoppages; and if, aftqr July 1, the organisation is not ready to furnish returns or subscriptions and grants, the Government will, until this information can be got, advance each month a sum not exceeding onetwelfth of the total cost of charitable aid in your municipality for this year, and the adjustment .will be made subsequently, when you are able to give data.'' NELSON, Monday. In the District Court to-daj' - Judge "Broad delivered judgment id the case of Thiel, of Westport, •: against the Corporation of INelson, which action was brought to recover '. .£2500 damages, for injuries sus- i taiued through the alleged slippery | and dangerous state of a foot- i path. Two legal objectons were , taken by the defendants, viz. : That '. the Municipal Corporations Act * 1

casts no duty upon them, and that. they hud no notice. These wore overruled ; but the Court found for the Corporation, -on the ground that there was nothing unusual or improper in the consti notion of the pathway, and that tho plaintiff might, with reasonable care, have avoided the accident. The Judge said the case came within the principle stated by the Court of Common Ploas in Crof tor v. Metropolitan Railway Co. DTJNEDIN, Tuesday. The police have obtained vario"s simples of kerosene in this provincial district, and forwarded them to the Government analyst for inspection, NEW PLYMOUTH, Tuesday. At a meeting of the Taranaki Jockey Club, the disqualification of Mr McGee by the Auckland Jockey I Club was considered, when it was decided that there were not sufficient i reasons adduced for the decision come to by the Auckland Jockey Club. CHISTCHUCn, Tuesday. Mr Walton offered a thousand Union Insurance Company's shares at auction to-day, only a hundred being sold at seventeen shillings. The remainder were withdrawn. The City Council last night, after considering further correspondence from the Government respecting the administration of charitable aid, arranged for a further conference of local bodies on Thursday next. It is generally understood that all will decline to accept any responsibility until the Government has created local bodies for the administration of charitable aid. The weather is bitterly cold, but fine. WELLINGTON, Tuesday. Notice was given to-day of a new English and Maori paper, to be started at Gisborne, about the time Parliament meets. Politics will be independent. The ' Times' says such ■ a paper is much needed, and large ; promises of support from Europeans and Maoris have been given. The site occupied by the Supreme Court, Police, and Resident Magis- 1 I tuate's Court, Lambert Quay, was put up for sale by auction at noon to-day, on behalf of the Government. The attention was large, and , bidding spirited. The frontage conI sists of 107 feet. The bidding started at £100 per foot, and ran rapidly up to £IZO, without any dwelling. The property was finally knocked down to Dr Buller for £153 per foot. The amonut realised was £16,371.