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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 50429, 4 May 1878, Page 2

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(lIBUTBR'B TBIiBGRAMS TO Till! PRESS ActBSOT. SYDNEY, May 3. The Council rejected the second reading of the Electoral Bill — received from the Legislative Assembly, providing for an increase of members of the Assembly to 115. Commercial.— Brandy, kerosene, and rice, unchanged ; New Zealand wheat, 5s 3d ; New Zealand oats, 4s to 4s Gd ; tobacco, Barrett's twist, Is 6d to Is O.kl ; sugar and candles, unchanged. May 4. The New Zealand bull Dulco of Cambridge has been sold for 420 guineas ; the Duke of Newcastle was reserved at 2000 guineas. ADELAIDE, May 3 Wheat, 5s ( Jd ; flour, £12 10s to £13. [From tub Press Agency. J AUCKLAND, May 3. The Governor and Marchioness visited the Wolverine to-day. Some hundreds of friendly natives are gone to Hikurangi. They are well supplied with food, and the majority bought new clothes for the occasion. A naval officer of the Wolverine went into Grant and Morton's auction mart and warned them that by flying a white ensign they were liable to a line of £500, only tho nayy nnd Royal yachts being legally permitted to fly such flags. He said that if the flag were not removed, he would send a file of men ashore to take it down. Mr Morton immediately removed the flag, but he was told by the officer that the flag might be used if it were slightly altered. The Nymphe and Wolverine's boats raced yesterday for £25 aside. The Nymphe won. Three hundred persons attended the ball given last evening by the Northern Club to the Governor. The Jockey Club to-day confirmed the decision disqualifying Mr M'Gee's Falcon, after hearing Mr M'Gee's statement. He admitted having instructed the jockey to pull the horse in, and not to win by more than a neck, so as to prevent Falcon being overweighted, like Elsa, in future races. He denied having won any bets on the race, or being in collusion with the bookmakers. The case against Perfume was dropped on account of insufficient 6V1CL621C6 .' CHRISTCHUROH, May 3. At a sale of land to-day, a number of sections at Papanui, nearly three miles I from Christchurch, were sold at the rate of £1000 per acre. • DUNEDIN, May 3, The Waikouaiti section is to be opened on Tuesday, and the Mouraki section to Pakeha ten days afterwards. Both departments pledge themselves to have through communication established on July Ist. KOPUA (via Alexandra), May 3. Rewi, Mahunui, Areni, and other Ngatimaniapotos are here waiting Sir George Grey and Mr Sheehan. They will not proceed to Hikuvansi until their arrival. KUMARA, May 3. A fire broke out this morning at Bulstrode's Club Hotel at three o'clock, which consumed it, and also destroyed Murphy's bootmaker's shop, Key's butcher's shop, Robinson's confectioner's shop, Mulligan's draper's shops, M 'Lean's grocery shop, and a building formerly occupied by the Bank of Australasia, The efforts of the local brigade prevented further destruction. Spindler's Crown Hotel was only saved by the exertions of volunteers. The insurances on the various buildings are not yet known. Later. The following are the insurances on this morning's tire .-—Mulligan, £1200 in the South British and £200 in the Victoria; M'Lean, £500 in the New Zealand ; Bulstode, £500 in the South British and £300 in the Phoenix; Murphy and Foley, uninsured. OAMARU, April 3. A fatal accident occurred at Incholme, Kakanui, to-day. A man named Alexander Macandrew was in the act of getting on a threshing machine while it was being removed ; his foot slipped, and, falling to the ground, one wheel of the machine passed over his body. A doctor was immediately sent for, but the man died before he arrived. Deceased was 35 years old, and owns a' farm, with his brother, at Portobello. NEW PLYMOUTH, May 3. Sir John Coode, with the Chairman and the Engineer of the Harbor Board and others, visited the site of the harbor this afternoon. He was rowed round Moturoa, Barratt's Reef, and along where the proposed breakwater is to be placed, and then to the shore. He goes to Waitara to-morrow, and will probably proceed Southwards by Tuesday's coach.