TELEGRAMS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 5012, 13 March 1877, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

[Tbom xhi Pbbsb Aqbkct.] Natikb, March 12. Moorhouse and Booth returned from Muriel a to-day. Dr Boiler wont on to the Hot Springs. It is understood tiaVtbe Native difficulty has been adjusted, »Cj' arrears of rent paid, and the surrey Wellington, March 13. A few days ego a number of surveyors in the Wellington district received orders from Mr Ihcmsoo, Surveyor-General, to proceed Scuthwards to several different places. A good deil cf indignation was expressed at the amegement as being unfair to Wellington t 3 the men removed, and likely to retard the surveys which the late Chief Surveyor of the Prrvicee had just got into shape for complethu. The Kew Zealand Times this morning ji js that these very changes were recordnkdfi by Mr; Jackson himself, that it core writing and can be proved. ANOIHEB MUNICIPAL LOAN SUCCESSFULLY FLOATED. Ih? Wellington Municipal Corporation has £ca;?i in London the Corporation consolidated sir cent loan of £200,000 at 103, through thefhnk of New Zealand. Gbbthocth, March 12. ATTEMPTED ABSON. An attempt was made yesterday morning, at 2 o’clock, to burn down the premises occupied by LLng and wife, as a store and dwellinghouse in Tainui street, immediately opposite where the Grevmouth Hotel was burned down. A bundle of wood and rags, saturated with kerosene, had been placed under the com;: cf the house and fired. Fortunately th» bins was seen before the fire got a good bold, and it was extinguished without doing much damage. Dcnedin, March 12. It? Hon John Young has arrived in Duttih, Ee ieaves for Australia on Wednesdt;. During his stay in Dunedin he intetds to interview the Chairman of the Harbour Board, and also the Chairman of the Cuamber of Commerce. Teok ors own Coebbspondhnt.] Dynedin, March 12. It? branch line to Tuapeka, which was to nar; been opened on Thursday, will not be rett; till the second of next month, when the uvemt, for which the people of the district nsv? been anxiously waiting, will be duly celebrated. The floods of February are the o»uie of the delay. The line is a very hilly ou;, end some of the gradients are extremely