NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1438, 25 September 1878, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

[PBB PRESS AGENCY.] Auckland, September 24, Madame Charbonnette’s first concert at the Choral Hall was a brilliant success.

The Friendly, Temperance, and other societies intend holding a demonstration. The proceeds to go to charitable institutions. Napier, September 24. It is stated that the action pending against the Napier Harbor Board by Mr Henderson, contractor, is not being proceeded with. Possibly an arrangement may be effected. Hokitika, September 24. A petition has been posted to the Government bearing about 1009 signatures, praying for the immediate construction of the Hokitika and Grey railway. A discovery of alluvial gold about twentythree miles south of Ross is making some talk. The prospectors obtained encouraging returns, but it will take a few days to determine the extent of ground payable. Several parties have set to work in the locality, which is only a mile and a half from the Bowen road.

[from the correspondents of the press]

Auckland, September 24. The “Herald” to-day, referring to the prospects of the capture of the Momahaka murderer, Hiroki, says the chances are that he will be apprehended before reaching the Waikato country. It is impossible to avoid seeing and saying that this murder is like a crisis for the present Ministry. If Tawhiao protects the fugitive, then it will have to be confessed that we are no further forward than we were two months ago. But if he is captured on the route he has taken, where the natives could prevent the capture if they chose, or if he is given up, then all doubt as to the late meetings and negociations will be abandoned, and all enemies and questions in. Parliament will be silenced. Wellington, September 24. The scene of the Momahaka murder is l about thirty miles distant from the Waimate plains. Telegrams received by the Government to-day state that the fugitive (Hiroki).. was yesterday seen at Okutuku, not far from the place where the murder was committed. A native, who saw him there, said he was going to Warihaka, which is in the Taranaki provincial district, and about eighty or ninety miles northward of Okutuku. It is likely Hiroki will be picked up by some of the parties which are in search of him. In the land of Hawera or Opunake, through which latter place he must pass on his way to the North, Horn Pihama and Katene, the assessor in connection with the Waimate reserves negociations, are on the track, and other preparations have been made along the routes both of native tracks and the ordinary road, and it is expected he will be speedily captured. It is supposed he will follow the native track, as being less dangerous, and it is on that line hi& apprehension is expected to occur.