SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

Waikato Times, Volume XIII, Issue 1077, 20 May 1879, Page 2

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

ANOTHER NATIVE MEETING.

[From our own correspondent.] KIHIKHI, Monday, 8 p.m. Another native meeting was held m the School-room here this afternoon, Mr Sbeehan m opening itsaid, m referring to the subjects m. troduced by I»ewi at the meeting on Saturday last, he had taken the intervening time to consider the matter, but as tor himself, many of the boundaries were not known to him. A chief then came forward and read out a long list of localities and boundaries which from their proximity were familiar to tho Europeans present, after which Mr Sheehan addressed the meeting at some length through* Mr Grace. Amongst other important instructions given he pointed out the necessity of attending to the subjects before the meeting and not to do as was done at Kopua, be thinking of the past and crying over spilt milk. If matters, he said, were left between himself and Rewi and his people m this instanqe, all would be brought to a satisfactory termination, but if Europeans interfered for their own ends and natives listened to then* things coald not prosper and if press telegrams and newspaper reports were sent at this stage of the negotiations matters would end as they did at the Kopua meeting. TE AWAMUTU last nighfc. The following.are the acceptances for the Handicap Hurdle Race: Walker's Loafer, Taylor's Count, Limmer's Lady Godiva, Garland's Multum-in-parvo, Allen's Little Dick, Rutherford's Sportsman. Maiden Plate : Limmer's Lady Godiva, Garland's Osman Pacha, Donovan's Sweet Briar, Rutherford's Nell, Storey's Mouse, Grierson's Rob Roy. ' For the Cap : Taylor's Count, "\yalkers Loafer, Limmer's Lady Godiva, White's Barney, Garland's Osman Pasha, Allen's Lalla Rookh. Allen's Golden Crown, Donovan's Sweet Briar, Galloways : Thomas Kay's Hilda ; James Weal's Lncky, Charles's Cockey ; Allen's Little Dick ; Henry Garland's Puniu ; Donovan's Mimic ; Bond's Wee Pet ; Rutherford's Nell. Ladies Purse : Limmer's Lady Godiva ; Weatherall's Robin ; Walker's Loafer: Allen's Lalla Rookh ; Allen's Multum m Parvo ; A. Kay's Orakau ; Pollard's Derby ; Taylor's Rally ; Giierson's Rob Roy. Full weights for age, and welter weights at foot.

[PRESS AttEJfOY.] THAMES, Saturday. The railway . surveyors have reached the Komata, and as Tokukino has always objacfced to the County road being surveyed through the block, and the difficulty has not been settled yet, the survey of the railway line through it is not being proceeded with. The flauraki Engineers are being supplied with new carbines and sword bayonets. The services of the proposed Cavalry corps have been declined for the present, owing to the scarcity of suitable arms.

NAPIER, Satnrday. An inqnest was held to-day on the body of Miss Tatham, clergyman's daughter, who disappeared from home on Monday. She was fonnd m the riVer by a Maori last night. There are no marks of violence .on the body. The verdict was "Found drowned" ; but how she come to be m the river is a mystery, as the horse she was riding had evidently not been m the water. There were footmarks on the rivbr bank, so it is thought she must, m a fit of temporary derangement, have made away with herself. Color is given to his supposition by the fact that, on Monday morning she received a letter from England ' which seemed to distress her greatly. Her only relation now m th« colony, is a brother, who did not know of her disappearance until he saw the notice of the finding of her body m the ' Herald' this morning. He was up the country. Her father was formerly a clergyman at Te Aute. TIM ARIL Saturday. It has been decided by the merchants and tradesmen m Timaru to observe. Monday next as a public holiday m honor of the Queen's Birthday, instead of Saturday, the 24th. OAMARU, Friday. The grain and breadstuff market is quiet. Quotations : Wheat, 3s 4d to 3s sd ; oats, Is lOd to 2s; barley, 5s j flour, £8 15s to £9 ; bran, £4 ; pbllaad, £5 ; oatmeal, £16. OHRISTCHURCH, Sunday. A meeting of the unemployed was held to-day m the Cathedral Square. From one hundred to one hundred and fifty were present. John Lee, a well-known stump orator, spoke first, and complained that men of of property were trying to reduce the working man's wages from five to ten (sic) shillings p3r day, What he wanted, was them to bring pressure to bear on the Government to find work for them. Another speaker, who said he had been induced to sell his happy home m England to come out here, stated that he arrived m. January last, and only obtained due month's work since. This was a good country for young girls to pome to, aM they '

ought to have been told before leaving that it was only a woman's country. At the close of the meet ing a committee was formed to make arrangements for other meetings, the first to bo held on Monday nexb. IMMIGRATION. DUNEDIN, Saturday. Between April and May 16 there were received at the Immigration Office applications under the nonii- ' nated system for 218 souls, equal to 188£ statute adults. INVERCARGILL, Sunday. One hundred and thirty - one nominations of emigrants, all of a good class, will be sent by the patgoing mail. HIGH PRICE OF AGRICULTULAND. The New Zealand Company's Spur Bush estate was sold by auction by Mr G. D Martyn on Saturday, The attendance was large, and the bidding spirited. The land generally. . brought good prices. Sections contiguous to s the line of railway, brought £60 per acre. The lowest prices obtained were for some heavily timbered and rough "land. This "sold at £25 per acre. The block was subdivided into convenient farms of about 250 acres each. The terms were easy, and the purchasers were bona fide settlers.