SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

Thames Advertiser, Volume XII, Issue 3292, 5 April 1879, Page 3

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

J (feom oue own coibespondents.) o Auckland, Friday. i Arrived; The a.s. 'Ladybird,' from tne South; 'Christina,' schooner, from Lyttelton. The Star learns that Sir Julius Vogel's commission on the New Zealand Agricultural Co. amounted to £7,500. t In compliance with numerous applioations from country districts, the Waste Lands Board has resolved to open many blocks of land for sale. The total area of land in course of preparation for sales is 72,000 acres, and 65,000 have been surveyed and mapped. Intelligence by mail says the appointment of a Eoman Catholic Bishop for Auckland has been left to the Benedictine order, and probably an Englishman will be appointed. Eighty-five heads of families in Tauranga have petitioned for-a block of twonty.fivo thousand acres under tha homestead Bystem. The total receipts for tho booths and privileges of races amount to £180, Of 21 prisoners for trial at the criminal sessions 10 are Maoris. A man known as Yankee Jack has been drowned at Northern Wairoa. The tender of Messrs Eraser and Tinne, Auckland, has been accepted for raising the s.s.' Taupo.' Dr Campbell to-day resigned the chairmanship of the Board of Education. Cokosundel, Friday. The Inspector of Miners' Eights (Mr Mcllhone), has suod about 20 miners and business people of this district, for occupying Crown Lands without a miner's right or business license. Complaints were made before the warder that repented applications had been made to the Mining Inspector, Mr Gatland, for a title, and they had _ never received them, living wwr the impression they were not Hible

unless titles under the Regulations were issued. Considerable dissatisfaction was expressed. Tho Warden said that the matter should havo boen brought before his notice sooner, being the officer in charge of tho district. He would be glad to inform any person of the law on tho matter upon application. The Tokatoa Koad is finished at a cost of about £800 above the estimate. A bridge fell in and had to be rebuilt. Tho chairman of tho county interviewed the natives yesterday about cutting a road from Kikowhakarero to Cabbage Bay along the coast.