TELEGRAMS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 5009, 9 March 1877, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

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Wanganui, March 8, . -si meeting of the Harbour Board * ’IT, m terdsy afternoon, to consider a ** h ,;, m T ihe Harbour Master, stating that » hod broken through tbe south spit, ‘ s *i,e from tb c Heads, and a channel seen about a chain wide, with a <’® n ,/ fi Te feet at high water spring tide, <RPy' 1 ,, of (be surf having mode through ,ilf , Viand ipit out in the river about five has caused the river to silt up Iml mentioned spot, and sot tho m another direction.' f "v- Reel the Kosident Engineer, stated that fhi "' ft popping the channel would be £: Board resolved to apply to Government » beet engineering advice, to report on ‘V to be adopted to prevent further H“ r purring to the river arising from tho Severe from iu ordinM 7 channel. Harbour Board met again this after- ■ and adopted the most direct- and praoft: '-ewl alien under the circumstances, vix.: , T -4t the pilot be requested to sand his " ,ink a snog punt in the channel to I »nd that a bullock team be procured -re t drift logs, to bo fixed by sand bags, t V.it any extra labour and material requiprocured.” K W. Wood’s excursion party to tho head . Yangonoi river, was turned back by fV Vslitm after going a considerable disIbe reasons assigned being annoyance TV j’r.iolence from Europeans going on to isnds to prospect for gold. Dcnkdis, March S. jbe Waste Lands Board bad under condrieratioa veiterday the question of how to »ith four runs, the losses of which will ire far ) T next year. The Chief Surveyor -•x-ted that tho country comprised in tho r V'rii very rough, unfit for agricultural JitlfiLfct, and proposed that the four runs be cut up into five for tho purpose of -.leasing. Mr Green dissented from this VVv, pointing out that the land being very rhfs to the Coast settlement, and some of it Whin a few miles of Dunedin, was certain to tV in good demand, and woold realise more than £1 an acre. He admitted that a great deal of it was rough country, but yet there wire also many fertile valleys. The matter tm adjourned for a week. A woman named Mrs Young, a dressmaker, in Clark itreet, was drowned while bathing at the Oossn Beach, Anderaon’e Bay, yesterday er-ning. Two other women, named Cecilia Philhpi and Emily Gardiner, and the cab--a-: »ho drove the party out wore present, bet vere unable to save deceased. A r.-rj extensive prospectus is about to be iisuei by the Otago University, and it will ccntim full information in regard bo subjects aught in that institution. During tbe year 1876, tbe aggregate amount sued for in the Resident Magistrate's Court, I Duufdin, was £67,946, of which £22,049 was revered. rSOM OTS OWS OOBRESPOKDKNT.] Waxmatb, March 8. A meeting wat held last night, at the Oddfellows’ Hall, to consider the question of ksnug Waimste proclaimed a borough; Mir Ju. Brcee in the chair. Mr T. Gaitt moved, and Mr J. Crawford seconded—“ That, in the opiuiun of this meeting, it is desirable that Wsimste should be proclaimed a borough.” Carried unoaimouslv. Messrs Manchester, Brace, Price, Gaitt, Cameron, Middleton, Atwell, Bidd, and Crawford were appointed a Committee to prepare s petition to the Government and to settle the boundaries of the proposed borough.