11EQUISITION TO MR STOUT. Auckland members of the House of Re presentatives are getting up a requisition, signed exclusively by themselves, to induce, Mr Stout to reconsider his determination, and allow himself to be nominated for the coining election. Dr Hector and Mr Caliis leave for the Sydney Exhibition tc--day. The exhibits go iv the same vessel. RIFLE ASSOCIATION. A special meeting of the Council of the Hfevf Zealand Rifle Association was held Hast evening. As a majority of the members -of the Council are members of the A-ssembly, and there is a probability of tfaeir beiug absent on Monday next, owing io the proposed dissolution, it was decided that the meeting should adjourn until the meeting of the new Parliament, The balance-sheet and report showed a satis factory state of the Association. It was also decided that the programme for the next firing at Nelson should be published three months before the date of meeting. ABSCONDING FROM BAIL. Barnard, who absconded from his bail at Kaiapoi, and was re-captured in the South, has been committed for trial on a charge of sheep- stealing. UNIVERSITY DEGREES. Great preparations are being made for the ceremony of conferring degrees in connec tion with the New Zealand University, which takes place to-morrow in the late Provincial Council Chambers. ANOTHER EARTHQUAKE. A shock of an earthquake was felt this morning at fourteen minutes to eight, pre ceeded by a rambling, then a quivering sensation, and imm&diately afterwards a sharp shock.
CHRISTCHURCH, Tuesday.
