Telegraphic Dispatches.

Tuapeka Times, Volume VII, Issue 349, 22 April 1874, Page 2

Telegraphic Dispatches.

{From our ovm Correspondent.) Dunedin, April 21. The first sitting of the new. Licensing Bench was hold to-day. Mr. Bathgate, R.M., made a few remarks explanatory of the intentions of the Bench with reference to the granting of licenses. The Court was crowded. Several licenses were refused, and in the case of a large number of city merchants who through inadvertence were too late in putting in their applications for wholesale licenses, the Bench postponed the consideration of the question as to whether they could grant the licenses. -- - The candidates for the vacant seat in the Assombly are addressing largely attendee^ meetings nightly, and it is expected that the voting on Thursday will be much closer than was at first anticipated. Mr. Saunders (Auckland) quotes sales of South British at 515. ; Nationals, 355. ; and Standards, 15s. April 22, 9.26 a.m. The only local candidates for the New Zealand University Scholarships areS. Solomon and Charles Low. An action for slander, J. P. Healy v. John Heenan, damages laid at £500, was heard before the Supreme Court yesterday, and will be further heard this morning. The result of the poll at the election of member for the Assembly for Akaroa was — Montgomery, 161 ; Pilliett, 76. The offices of the Board of Education, Christchurch, were broken into on Sunday, and £35 abstracted from the cash box. An Auckland telegram states that his Excellency the Governor met the Friendly Natives yesterday morning, a lai-ge number being present. His Excellency made an eloquent speech, and said he was gratified at the reception he had received. He said he was very sorry for the division between the natives, and would like to see the good results of civilisation extended among the whole of the Maori people.