SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

Waikato Times, Volume XII, Issue 968, 5 September 1878, Page 2

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

[PREBS; AGEVCY.V ■■} ■ i AUCKLAND,. Iast night..; Messrs Cosgrave, Goldie, , Greenaway, Masefield, Peacock;, Thomson and Staiues were nominated for the three City Council vacancies. Alexander Morton, a passenger per Lady Jocelyri, /charged at the Police Court with cutting his throat with a penknife, was bound over for three months. ' ; '■ (NELSON, lasrnlgU. A crowded : meeting protested against the exclusion of this part of the colony from Public Works for : the next five years. The meetiug said it was a breach of faith not to continue the Southern trunk line from Nelson, as promised. , ; GISBORNE, last night. A public meeting will be heltl, to remonstrate with the Government upon overlooking Poverty Bay. GttAHAMSTOWN, last night. The Native Lands Court adjourns on Saturday, after passing five hundred thousand acres through. NEW PLYMOUTH, Tuesday. The farm owned by Major. Stapp, L'ikorarigi, was sold to Mr Taylor, of Canterbury', tor £11 10$ per acre. At the sale of Stratfordj the new Government township on the Moim-, tain Road, a number of quarter-acre sections were soldi— one fetching £180. The total amount of the sale was £2,215. The survey party on the Waimate Plains shift from Kaupokumia today to Otekihio, when: they will work on toward Onuitarangi, the futhermost boundary. Te Whiti says that the 17th of March next will be the day of blood, and after that the day of death of himself and brother at the eutering of the gate (Parihakd) evidently referring to the general amnesty; to take place at the meeting, called by Rewi, on the 18th of March. <At the last meeting, he said :— Let surveyors go on the land. It. is still mine. lam going to portion out, not only the lands of New Zealand, but the lands of the world. This is, stated by those who are his interpreters to mean that he will advocate the individualisafcion of Ihe lands. ■■"''■■; WELLINGTON, Tuesday. MASONIC. A meeting of the P.G. Lodge of the North Island, S.C., was held last night m the Theatre Royal, for the purpose of installing the officers who were unable to attend m Auckland 1 1st year. The Waterloo Lodge was the first opened. About 200 Masons of the various lodges were present. The Provincial Grand Lodge was then entered, and Brother the Hon. F. Whitaker, P.G.M., assumed the throne, and opened the Provincial Grand Lodge, introducing Brother MoCullough, P.P.D.G.M., as the installing Master. Brother Brodie, P.G. Senior Warden, occupied his proper chair, and the other G.L. offices were filled by deputies. The offiers installed were : Brother A. Johnsten as P.D.P.G.M., Brother Rev. B. W. Harvey as P.G.D. Chaplin, Brother Gillon asP.G.J*. Sec, Brother Bowles as P.G.S.D., ! and Brother Dale as P. A, Marshall. The ceremony was admirably conducted by Brother McCulloch, and the Musical party was supported by a splendid choir. Brother Brodie on behalf of the Sir Walter Scott, Thames; Brother McCnlloch on behalf of St. Andrew's Lodge, Auckland ; and Brother Power on behalf of the Delight of the Thames Lodge, congratulated the newly installed officers. After the ceremony a banquet was held. PARLIAMENTARY. WELLINGTON, last night. The Government Financial Bills nva considered certain to pass, although they will probaWy be considcTably amended m committee. Mr J. S. Macfarlane presented a petition from Robert Coopar, respecting lands purchased from natives. The ' Hinemoa ' left at six o'clock

this evening for Lyttelton with the members for the opening of the l^ir^^^^ey, Messrs Sheehan, |wansori' )yu^R6we rerrain here mng thep>uth%rn tour. : CHJRficB»CH, Tuesday. [Designs ll; a Mr - storey hotel, |hich is; to%e hg||l; on the American imncitolp, arejcajjl^for. Mr Wearing, of the ToTmtnW Hotel, is to be the proprietor. „ ___„ DUNEpIN, Tuesday, Robert Dagga, the well-known Ofcago wrestler, has accepted a challenge of Xhomas, of Victoria, to wrestle for the championship of the-colonießi^.The ' match will probably. take place at Dunedm m November."" ' Twenty ,*cres of land m the Northeast Valley were purchased by Captain Baldwin fpr £9,720, being the highest price hitherto paid here /for suburban land.