LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Grey River Argus, Volume X, Issue 763, 8 December 1870, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

j>EOM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] Atjokland, Dec. 3. The names of two. men and the women in the party which shot Mr Todd have been ascertained. . They are still in the Pirongia ranges, searching for Mr Frissels, of the surveying party, whose escape to Alexandra they do not yet know. The Kingites are reported as being shy of coming to Alexandra, The Government are instigating an official enquiry. Mr Moore, schoolmaster at Rangamu, lias lately become obnoxiotis to the Kingites at Kawhai, and has been warned not to return to the mission station or he will be shot. An amendment on the second reading of the Appropriation Act was carried against the Government, who resigned. The Council adjourned till Tuesday. Arrived. — Joliba, from Lyttelton. Sailed. — Steamers James Patterson and Auckland, for Sydney, via Bay of Island?, to coal there. Te Kooti is in the neighborhood of Opotiki, and threatening to make a raid. . Two mounted troopers, with the informa-, tion, arrived at Tauranga on the Ist. Colonel Moule sent the constabulary to j Opotiki. : I An open-air meeting, called by the Protection League to-day, was a complete failure. A resolution in favor of protection was negatived by a great majority. Mr Binney reports — Flour, southern, LI 3to Ll4 ; wheat in fair supply, at 5s ; oats overstocked ; butter unsaleable, at 7d ; cheese, a fair sale at Bd. @