TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 58, 28 June 1876, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

[per press agency.] —<£> Wellington, Wednesday. RESIDENT MAGISTRATES' COURTS. At a meeting of tlie Chamber of Commerce yesterday, they agreed to ask tlie Minister of Justice to extend the jurisdiction of Resident Magistrates' Courts from £SO to £IOO. THE NYMPHE. H.M.S. Nymph e sailed for Auckland, where she will take in stores and return immediately. Greymouth, Wednesday. 'an incident of the floods. The Brurmner railway has been repaired, and traffic resumed. A ferryman at Teremakau found a child's jacket on a swag in the river, and in picking it up the arm of a child dropped out and was carried off by the current. It is supposed to be a portion of the remains of the children lost on the Christcliurch road. Riverton, Wednesday. THE RIVERTON HARBOUR BOARD. At a meeting of the Riverton Harbour Board the following resolution was carried

unanimously : —" That an endowment 40,000 acres of land be applied f ot '' blocks of 10,000 acres each, and that V Daniels, M.P.C., Dr. Moncktou, J Mills, be requested to interview the (V missions? of Crown Lands for the puriyt of ascertaining where the unsold land* those sized blocks can be obtained; at J for accurately defining the Wandas' and that an endowment be granted of tions 20 to 22, blocks of the town of Rj V g ton, for harbour board. The gentlemen to be requested to forward % necessary instructions to Dr. Hodgl;i] IStl , for the framing the Harbour Endowing Bill."

Dunedin, Wednesday i ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION. A Dunedin Orchestral Asso?iation u been formed, with Professor Sale ( President. jj MEDICAL SOCIETY. A meeting to form a Medical Soci t ; has been called for to-day. ' LAND LEAGUE. The Cromwell League has carried a res-, lution that where leases of runs cxpir t the land should be cat up into areas W 3,000 to 20,000 acres. THE CITY COUNCIL AND THE FEMALE FRANCHISE. The female franchise was shelved in tin Council yesterday. - THE DUNEDIN GAOL. The Gaol Report for the year shows tit earnings to have exceeded the expendit®, by £6OB.