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Evening Star, Issue 4135, 29 May 1876, Page 3

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; m, , T ' Alexandra, May 27. I The - Native Mini^teD;ahd j Tawhiab are atiU m conference at Kaipeha, and a lot of mtorviews are continually, taking place apof topmost friendly nature. ’ ,Tawhim huxfseji speaks highly of the Native Wnister, but as usual he : has opposition to fight

|_ : j_ . >• / Grrxstchurch, May 27. j L'® Mur ska make her first appearance last night #4 large audience. Her sincm cmatedT quite a furore. ‘ She was pleaded three tunes after each gong. The pther members of the company met with a splendid reception,,

Akaroa, May 27. ; . double-demy paper, to be called the Akaroa Mail, is announced to be pubushed here on July 4. ' . ; . '

I .w . In VEKCARcuhL, May 29. A fancy bazaar in aid of the Second Presbyterian Church was open for four days last week, and realised upwards of L6OO. It closes to-njght with ah auction and spelling bee. P

_ • Tauto, May 29. There was a ; sharp shock of-earthquake here about two o’clock this morning.

Christchurch, May 29 ) A new bi-weekly paper, caUed the ‘ North Canterbury Standard,’ was published at Rangiora oh Saturday last. A : bi-weekly came to grief there a few weeks ago. On Saturday a man named Thompson died while under chloroform the Hospital for a surgical operation. At an auction sale of "steeplechase horses on Saturday last, Royalty,/winner of the Urand National Handicap, was sold to Mr .A. Cardale, of Christchurch, for 100 guineas, and Septimus to Mr R, Mason of Christchurch, for L 53. Moose, Butcher Boy, Gazelle, Auckland Kate, Barmaid, and' Brunswick were passed in unsold. A portion of evidence in an inquiry at the instance of the Hon. E. Richardson into the ;saleo.. a piece of land to E.P. Sealey, then a contract surveyor under Provincial Government. by the Timaru Land Office is published. It appears from complainant’s statement that on February 1 E. Richardson, juu., applied tor a piece ’of land between a two-acre section owned by E. P. Sealy aud the River Te Ngawai. But before the ap.i° a V-° n was . com pl e ted Henry liealoy called it being- past four o clock, and Richardson was told to cotue again at ten 0 clock next morning., Before leaving, Richardson set hiS watch ! two minutes fast by ths clocks, and jpp moroin^

waiting .outside goipp time, during which no one entered the office, he went in exactly at .ten o’clock by his watch, when he was told that he was too late, and that the land had been applied for by E. P. Sealey for whom it was then being measured off. He said that must be a mistake, as it was only just ten o’clock, when the clerk said it was three minutes past ten o’clock, ahcl on looking at the clock Richardson found to his astonishment that the hands pointed to three minutes’ past ten. Ric’ ardson said his watch had habitually ' gained prior to this, »nd it continued to do so afterwards, The laud office officials, so far as the evidence goes, assert that it was ten o’clock before Sealey’s application was taken, and that Richardson did not come to the office till a minute or two after ten. •Several papers accompany the evidence, from which it appears that the Waste Land Board, after considering - -the whole matter, decided that, Sealey Brothers were not entitled to do what they had: done; but the Board had no power to; reverse the granting of the land to E; P, Sealey, apd that can only be dealt with by the Supreme Court. The Superintendent wrote to Seeley advising restitution, but no reply is given. Evidence shows that the Land Office clock Was a good time-keeper, never varying more than’one minute per week.