INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2295, 6 December 1889, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

(PEK PUBSH ASSOCIATION.)

Auckland. D camber 5

A Native meeting of the tribe adhering to T.whiao haß boon held at MaungaRawu, i:ear O'lmbiidge, and ncparated yosterday. I'awhUo l-Bur-d n ii.tt-.f_a«o to the tubee, urging them to be united. He coacluded aB follows : — ■' Let a Maori Parliament be establish. d. The c.op to be aown therein ia to abolish the Native members m the European Pa.liament, Native aßßesßora, aurveya, Native Land Courts, sale of land, of leaves, schools, goldminlng on Native land, roads, and cease to obey European summonses iv case, between Maoris o.Jy, get a Maori tribunal to deoide these ; caase to acknowledge the authority of the inferior Europeans ; drop the pak.ha r.lsgion ; upbo'd Ilauhauhm."

By tbe fire whi h lv>s been raging for day. at VVaotu, the vaiu»ble totara bush hus boea almost totaiy d-.troyed. The fire was c v.S'.d by a Murr, wt o Btarted a fire to un\ko a c wuriiig ro that he could plant tobacc:. The fir > got into the sorub, and before it rv.ii* ld b. extinguished the bush caught. Th* aikato Timber Company's m ! U has b _:. d stroy d, with ail the a.] ic-jnt wui'din .*_, except two echool-housw. a d the telegraph office, which wero eavoi. Thousand, of posts that lay m th * bush and round the mid bavo beon burned, and tho Company have suffered to tho extent oi about £400 m tbis way. A Bottler name i B'uo. has also lout about £-00 by thia moans The cbisf Buffjrera, Lowove., ore the Natives of tho Ngatimotu tribe, who Lai made extensive e'earings and had planted potatoes, the whole of which ere dealroyed. The Natives had bteo r.lyinp; on these foi th i* vo y existence They hope tbe GoverntU' n: will grant thocn some assistance. About 500 acres of the bush ht-s been lurnei,

Ureymo.th, December 5.

A few Jays ig-> a pcoepeotlng parly, cou.:.tlng of Oh?.-. Holder, Thom»B Wellspring __ i'-rki!. *>nd Martin, while near Point Elizabeth, made tea from spring water near theii camp. Soon after they had severe pain** lv <he stomach and had to ba oonveyed t3 tow_, ail balug very ill. Martin is In the hospital ; Wellsprlng la a*,ld to le dying. Tbe ope, tug la a mineral one.

The oase of poisoning following the nee of water from a spring at Point J_l zibetb proves to be BrlM.h cho!e~«. It appears that the spring hid b.en ÜBed for some time with Impanitu but lately it ran dry, and the water fj_ tea w_s taken from another hole olose by, which showed signs of ru.t, apparently from decayed vegela tion, William Weilapring died thli afternoon. Holder look very 111, but oan get about, (Martin Parker is still very ill. O-ly three mtn were »fi.cted, t'.e statement that thee, ware four betug au error. All are old and we:l known residents of tha Oo=»Bt; Wellsprlng was filty-Bevon years of ago.