YESTERDAY'S TELEGRAMS

Globe, Volume IX, Issue 1221, 1 February 1878, Page 2

YESTERDAY'S TELEGRAMS

[BY SUBMARINE OABLE.J AUSTRALIAN. [PBS PBESS AGENCY.] Sydney, January 31. The s.s. Wakatipu arrived yesterday, alter a splendid passage of four days and eight hours from Wellington. INTERPROYINCIAL. [pee peess agency.] Sir George Grey ao Waikato. Scenes on an Immigrant Ship. Auckland, January 31. Sir George Grey and Mr Sheehan have been occupied all day at Alexandra receiving local deputations. Replying tp one deputation, Mr Sheehan said no doubt the Eating Act was formed in the interest of the large property owners, but it was impossible to get the valuation clause amended in the present Parliament. The remedy was dissolution. The Government would submit material amendments in Income Tax and Eating Acts next session. Large land owners had now the control of local elections by plurality of votes. The Premier said the matter was really in the hands of the people. Every member of the present Ministry favored the small settlers.

Te Wheono came in a war canoe with a hundred men. Other large canoes have arrived. Tawhiore, brother-in-law of Tawhaio, arrived from Kopua, and waited on the Premier and Mr Sheehan. Tawhiore welcomed them to Waikato. The Ministerial party will proceed upwards at eight o’clock to-morrow morning. _ A dividend of five shillings was paid by the Moanatairi mine to-day. Dr. Somerville’s labors have resulted in the formation of a Ladies’ Christian Association.

The yacht race to-day was won by Good Templar ; Contraband, second. Forty-six candidates have been nominated for the Board of Education. Rewi was present at a “tangi” with Tawhiao. Rewi intended to return to his own settlement, but Tawhiao pressed him to stay and to receive Sir George Grey. Tawhiao took hold of Rewi’s hand, and said “Our friend George Grey is coming here ; let both meet him.” Rewi, with a show of reluctance, consented. The meeting is expected to be of a character calculated to bury the old grievances of the war. The names of all the great chiefs killed in the war will be mentioned, and their deeds rehearsed. It is expected that the effect will be a permanent renewal of friendship between the races and the “ buryin" of the hatphet.” One of the most pro, rament chiefs at the reception of Sir George Grey yesterday was the high priest of Tarihi At McLean’s last meeting, he appeared in a Maori mat. When pressed to cfothe himself decently, he replied “lam a Maori. Aftei the reception he dressed himself in the best European attire. AtjjxaudbA, January 31. There will be no meeting to-day. The Lower Waikatos, with canoes to escort Sir George Grey and Mr Sheehan, having only lust arrived here. Te WLakanui and party, from Mokau, are hourly expected. There is a large assembly of natives at Kopu. No reporters are to bo present at the meeting with Tawhaio. Napier, January 31.

The Resident Magistrate’s Court has been occunied yesterday and to-day with an action to recover £IOO damages brought by Jjr. Dale surgeon of the Renfrewshire, against the captain of the vessel, for assault on the hb'h seas. The matter arose from an exaggerated notion on the part of the doctor as to his position in regard to the immigrants being one of authority independent of the captain. The Magistrate held that what the doctor considered an assault was merely justifiable action on the part of the captain to enforce his authority and to prevent an outbreak of mutiny, which was then imminent. Fearing bad weather, the captain had ordered thp hatches tp be battened down. The doctor rushed up, dragged the main hatch off, and threw ifc overboard, calling on the single men to help him and „ « Who is for the captain and who for v” The captain loaded his revolver, fired three shots in the air to intimidate , „ j e . Before that the captain had taken the doctor by the scruff of the neck 1 j, na hed him on one side, which was the assault sued for. The captain and several •; oa «e8 alleged that the doctor was drunk. Judgment was given for'the defendant, with ia 7 L costs. Accounts given by some of the trtfe isutynpM m to tfao caaclufljoa

that there was great laxity during the voyage, and that there was immoral intercourse with the single girls.

The cricket match to-morrow does not commence before two o’clock.

Wellington, January 31. Pestridge, who had been occupying the Railway Hotel building up to the day before it was burned down and caused the destruction of the railway station, was brought tip to-day for the second time, charged with arson. Several witnesses were examined, and the result was that the court committed him for trial. [from the correspondent of the press. J Canterbury and Otago Cricket Match Dunedin, January 31. Mr Secretan, secretary of the Canterbury Cricket Association, has written to the secretary of the Otago Association, that Canterbury cannot send a team to Dunedin this year, because her players cannot get away through the team having gone to Auckland, and tlie long duration of the Auckland match. He llatly denies the rumor that Canterbury declined to play an eleven even.