SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

Waikato Times, Volume XII, Issue 1017, 31 December 1878, Page 2

SPECIAL TE LEG RAMS.

[press agency.] AUCKL A ND, last night. The following is the Hsfc of acceptances for; the Auckland Racing Chib^jaandban and Granl Stand Handicap : — Racing 'Club Handicap (£200), If miles : Pintire, 7sfc llib ; Isaak Walton, 7st lib ; Venus Trausit, 6sfc 121 b; Puuga were were, Cst 101 b; Perfume, Gst 71b; Lady Elizabeth, Gat 41b ; Gillie Cullum, Gst 4lb; Xnntippe, sst 121 b. Grand Stand Handicap (£100), 11 miles : Isaak Walton, Sdt lib ; Pinfire, 7st 12lb • Punga were were, 7st 2lb ; Venus Transit, i)sb ; Ag<nir, list 51b; Gillie Callum, Ost l!b; Repo, Gst 3lbf Xantippe, Gst; Tom Finn, Cst. The weights for the Auckland Racing Club Handicap: give general-, satisfaction, 8 horses having accepted out of 15. Ariel is scratched, having suffered too much to be ready to start again. Hippocampus is still out of sorts. Omega got her foot slightly injured, while ruining m the AucklanJ Cup. Magician 13 still oat of sorts. -Fiction will not go. The Don met with a slight accident yesterday. Tregeagle Second does not run. WELLINGTON, last night. Two hundred and twenty-eight immigrants ordered for Auckland ; 1(3 G9 for Otago; IGGI for Canterbury. • The * .Chronicle 1 States that Major Richmond \6 appointed Speaker of the Upper House. Sir W. Fitzherbert- continues Speaker of the Lower House. ! A circular, issued by the Secretary ] to the Executive Committee of the New Zealand Rifle Association, states that- the firing for the Champion Belt will be taken for any members. There are ten matches, two of .which are for carbine and two for small bores, tho latter being up to 1000 yards. There is also a consolation match. Between £900 and £1000 will be given m money prizes, at the match. NEW PLYMOUTH last night. The Taranaki cricketers sailed today. . The following are the names : —Adams, F. Bayly, G. Bayly, Bswley, Cleary, Cunningham, J. C. Davies (Captain), Harrison, Northwood, lliddiffjrd, Sartan, Lukis (Umpire.) CHPJSTCHURCH, last night. The 'Lyttelton Times' says: — • "There are four or five subjects which haunt Hir George Grey's mind like a nightmare. Their exaggeration is manifest to most men, bub he persists m regarding them as terrible facts. It is of no use telling him — Queen Mab is with him, — that what strikes him with horror is begot of nothing but vain phantasy. He persists m thrashing the wind. These snbj^cts are Legislative treatment, Canterbury runs, bastard aristocracy, New Zealand and Legislative Council. The artiple concludes " if he so much dislikes tho system of paid nominees, how is it that m fourteen

months he lms appointed six new members, a greater number thai was made dating five previous years? The attitnde taken by Sir George Grey m this is unworthy his standing-." In presenting prizes at Wellington College the : Governor alluded to the importance of proper education of the young m a country governed by representative institutions. He included the principles of loyalty, expressing "a hope that it would be long before the union of the Colony with the Mother Country was dissolved. He Had' spent four happy years ia NeW Zealand. One painful part of the office which ■he held was that, as floou us a Governor had made friends whom he esteemed ami regarded, he Was taken from mnmiij fliem,