SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

Waikato Times, Volume XII, Issue 970, 10 September 1878, Page 2

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

!• '' [PRESS AGEKCY.I ! ! ■■;.: - aKHAMSTOWtf, last night. ' The Thames County Council received a reply from the' 'Government re work for the unemployed, sugj?eabiug that they nhould be removed to ' Chfistohn'rcti, wheie they ■ would find employment. The oouaty do not approve of the auggeation, and at a meeting of the Borough and County Councils this morning, it was decided to employ as many of ; the men as poaaible at stonebreakiog. CHRISTCHURCH, last night. : The black Btallion, Cast ,Away, was bought m on Saturday 'for' £80Q, the highest bid Was 675 guineas. - 1 ' WEIiLTNGTON, last night.

The i Government : have chartered a steamer, and Dr Pollen has gone up to the -scene of the East Coast murder. Captain Porter telegraphs that the natives have now no objection io the exhumation and examination of the body. There are bix European settlers who will form part of the. '"'or >ners Jury s and p]x nativeß will, ie is understood, bd chosen to i make up, i he twelve. , Ministers have intimated their intention to stand or fall by their financial measui'es, and threaten if the principle of them ii» touched, they " 'wm-wppiy-t© thn country. Ministerial supporters profess great horror ; at . the alleged discovery of the scheme of Major Atkinson's Government to grant Sir J. Vogei one-eighth per cent on his Conversion of' the twenty million loan, and to send,, Mr .Staffojd home as 'Agent-General.' ' »• ■ • The, division on the Land Tax Bill will be taken on Wednesday, and carried by a small majority. : ' It is doubtful, owing to the weather, if the pleasure party can return m time for to-morrow' s sitting".

GRAHAMSTOWN, Saturday. OUT OF WORK. ; , A deputation of working men waited upon the County Council, asking for work. They stated. that 250 men were idle, many of whom had, been so two. or three months.. The Council decided to send a telegram to the Premier, asking for a vote of £1,000 for roads, m order to afford tbe men employ-menfc. EX-JUDGE THOMAS. ; Friday. Ex-Judge Thomas is making considerable stir among the Maoris m Taranaki district with his laud scheme, which is based on ; the fashion of the ryot holdings m India, and totally inapplicable to the Maori customs. 'People m Taranaki are getting alarmed, because of the sensitive native mind, which is prone to run after new things, m consequence of the facility of wonder and superstition which marks their character. The people of Taranaki have telegraphed urgently to Major Atkinson to appeal to Ministers, m order that steps should be taken to prevent i any further action on the part of this man. I do not know whether. he had interviewed. Ministers on the subject, but it will be rather an awakward interview, for has not his brother, Mr Decimus Atkinson, one of the heroes of the triumphal arch (the New Plymouth j " Archangle "), been leading this Judge Thomas about among the Maoris, and bringing him and Rewi together? WELLINGTON, Saturday. THE WELLINGTON TRAMWAY. We ai*e dull as a standing pond m Wellington, waiting the second advent of the members.. The tramway cars are plying m the streets with remarkable frequency, and are obtaining large patronage, and the cabs are fewer, and are seen less often than they used to be, m fact, a great number of them are run off ; and the streets, as a consequence, shew much less horse-carriage traffic. The thing is to be a success, and will save tbe Wellington Council considerable expenditure for street repair, as the Tramway Company have to keep the tramway and 4 feet on each side m good order. The tramway directors are jubilant, and already prophecy a dividend of 12 or 15 per cent, for the first year, and more hereafter. NEW PLYMOUTH, Friday The ' Taranaki Herald ' says the ryots of laud m the Madras Presidency, where we believe Judo-e Thomas resides, are the peasant cultivators of that region. The soil of the Presidency is the ptopertj of the Empress of India, and the ryots pay a rent for their holdings m the form of a land tax, which is the principal source of the revenue of India. If the land which Judge Thomas so complacenly talks of handing over to tho Maori race m perpetuity, were tho property of the British Grown, and the rent exacted was to form a part of the revenue of New Zealsurl,' the scheme not only might be workable, but probably a.i improvement on the present system of alienating the land from the Urown for ever. Judge Thomas evidently indulges m the hope of seeing the Maoris

rescued from the fate which has attended the history of every race t aat !j]|2sifcP n l^}§^ cc °^ lne earth tftfffi^imf® bi-oqg h t into colMt^i bthe|vracee, and missing lo?mig|itß '|>J|fcel|&mong men by , 4 . la|Ppf||ej^|fvi|i| of the fittest. llf th||pVlaM :rfp3 ; i|||) maintain its jjp'wa il| ,tl^uj;u|e ijps not by being icpvei-efi^p^and!i^|tld as an exotic, thal.it^an thorn, it must descend into the arena, and takes its part m the every-day normal life of our common industrial humanity, by educating its children, by cleanliness Rn_d healthy living, and by sobriety. It cannot be elevated ihlo a Ipurioua aristocracy aud live, for it would be emasculated and enervated ; nor can it live m isblaticbhV' for there is no time. The .struggle ha3,cqrae r and will; end , as all struggles mult;.— in the survival of the races aud the men who 'U'ejbest adapted to the medium m which they live. PATEAV Monday, The Patea District Jockey Club programme for the summer meeting on February 20th s>nd 21st, ia :— Pirst # day : Hurdle Race, £35 ; Hack Hurdle Race, £10 ; Flying Handicap, MO ; Carlyle Oup,S 150 , Farmers' Plate,. £25. The Second Day : Handicap Hurdle Ruce, £W ; Rlaiden Plate, MO j Club Handicap, ■ £150 j Ladies Purse, £25; Forced Handicap, £25. , : , „ I

CHRISrOMUROH, Monday. A very, large estate, known as the Peel Forest estate, has been sold { privately by Messis Mills, : ; Hassel and Co. The price has noVtranspii'ed . : ' A; blood gelding named Camballo,. four years old, arrived by the s.s. Albion; It is thewinner of races- in Victoria. He cornels run m ttie ' Jockey Club Handicap;, and has^arrived iii spleudid qrcjer.' " ' By the last mail trom Melbourne a letterfrwaaTreceivecl froTn Mr Curtis * . Read, Secretary of the Melbourne Cricket Club, suggesting the adoption of the following programme'; which was arranged at a meeting of the secretaries of, the clubs challenged by the Canterbury Cricket Association : — Eleven should' play 'Ballarat on December 27th. and 28ih ; East Melbourne; on January Ist and 2nd ; Melbourne Cricket. Club, on Jauuarv 4th, 6th, and' 7th ; South Melbourne, on January 10th and 1 l'fcli ; Bohemians; on January 14th and 15th. Mr Read mentions that only when two days are set apart for annatch the play need not be restricted to those days, but the match if unfinished may be continued the following day* '. .7 < ■