TELEGRAMS.

Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1194, 13 November 1882, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(prom our own correspondent.) Auckland, November 10. Tawhio's eldest son has come down to A ucklaud on a visit with some King chiefs. It is computed that the ferry steamer took 7000 people yesterday tv the North Shore to witness the anticipated canoe race. The Waikato were led by Tewha, and the Ngapuhi by 1 erau. Tn Tahio and Major Tewhere were present. Christchurch, 10. Two men have been arrested on suspicion of setting fire to the Temporary Hotel, at Little Akaroa, and remanded for further investigation. They are brothers named M'lntosh. he half-yearly examination of law students, and gentlemen admitted elsewhere and claiming to be enrolled in New Zealand has just been completed by Mr T. S. Weston, M.H.R, and Mr Alton Holmes, 8.A., of Dunedin. nf 12 presentations only three have been recommended as eligible for admission. *he examiners have not awarded to either of the successful candidates the Canterbury Law Society's Gold Medal and certificates of merit. The lote Mr Robert Chapman's remains, which were brought from Melbourne in the Wairarapa, were interred at Rangiora yesterday, Mr Geo. Batty, owner of the Palace Hotel and Theatre Royal, died this morning. I he Honorable T.j^gck arrived from Dunedin yesterday, and is inspecting the public institutions. " To-night the Honorable Mr Rolleston, Minister of Lands, addressed his constituents at the town hall, Papanui. There was a fair attendance. A vote of thanks and confidence was recorded, mingled with hisses and applause. A n amendment was proposed that a vote of thanks be accorded, but that his statements were satisfactory. This was negatived, and the first proposal canied, only a small proportion of the audience, which did not number more than 70 or 80, voting, Wellington, 11. The Appeal Court is appointed to sit on Monday next. Prior to the commencement of the cases set down for the Appeal Court, argument will be held in regard to the motion for a rule absolute in re Hegina v. Adams, the conspiracy case. Dunedin, 10. The rifle meeting closed to-day with the Ladies v hield match. Little interest was however taken in it, and there were few spectators present throughout. The text of the Royal Commission to r Pol'^n and Messrs l hompson, and Fulton re Middle Island trunk railway extension, is gazetted. It appoints them to be commissioners for the purpose of making enquiry into the probable cost and economical value of the several lines proposed for the extension of the main trunk line through the Middle Island northwards from Canterbury, and also to enquire, further whether any other line would be less costly and more advantagpousto the colony than anyone of the lines heretofore proposed, "it being the intention of these presents that you shall make investination and enquiry in the most ample and complete manner into all the facts and circumstances necessary or proper to be considered in determining the best line for the com pletion of the main trunk railway througli the Middle Island." Full powers for taking evidence, &c, are given. Timaru, 10. ' The Waimate corespondent of the Timaru erald reports to-night that an [ urgent telegram had been received by the sergeant of police therefrom Makihuna stating that a serious riot was I imminent. A large number of men I having come in to town armed with ! bludgeons etc. Sergeant Ramsay and , a jonstable at once left for Makihuna, which is a small country township, about 20 miles south of Timatu. No mrther particulars are to hand.