LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Kumara Times, Issue 797, 21 April 1879, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[press' agency.] Wellington, Aqn il 19. H.M. ship Emerald left for the Auckland Islands this morning. The steamer Patea this morning took up 50 of the Stadt Haarlem immigrants for Patea. The Stadt Haarlem will he thrown open to the public on Monday, and will sail for Lyttelton on Wednesday. Edward Guzze, a young boy, for stealing about 2s worth tobacco and cigars, was ordered by the Magistrate to be imprisoned for three days, and to be whipped with a birch rod with similar severity to that a parent would be likely to treat a child. The Collector of Customs has been formally instructed to take proceedings against the owners of the Taiaroa for carrying too many passengers. She is entitled to carry 40 passengers: she had 80. ' The schooner Ileraid lost a man from aloft while in Cook Strait. All efforts were made to save him by means of life buoys and boats. It is said that Ministers are likely to bring in a new and liberal Patent law next session. The Wnimate difficulty is still in the same position. Mackay is still discussing the whole question with Te Whetn. The doubts as to M'Lean’s promise to the Natives are imt >et cleared away. Parliament is further prorogued to the 10th June, but is expected to be, further prorogued till the 25th July, as previously staled. The Customs receipts for the past week were about .£SOOO. April 21. It is stated that Mr Firewood has decided to accept the appointment of Pistiiet Judge and K.M. for Wellington, offered him by the Government, conditionally on his being permitted to appear in the Supreme Court in certain important cases for which he has been retained, A man was arrested yesterday morn-

ing for being drunk in St. Paul’s Church. ♦ [NEW ZEALAND PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Christchurch, April 19. The Mayor bas received a telegram fiomthe Postmaster-General intimating Plis Excellency’s acceptance of the banquet preferred by the City Council. Lithograph plans for the new Town Hall are now ready for distribution amongst intending competitors. The prize for the first design is LIOO and LSO to the second. At a public meeting held last night it was resolved to form an amateur bicycle club, to be called the pioneer club. Dunedin, April 19. The (B) Dunedin battery of the New Zealand Regiment of Volunteer Artillery purposes giving a ball in the garrison hall to his Excellency the Governor during his stay in Dunedin. Mr Murray, M. lI.R. tor Bruce, will add ress his constituents shortly. Henry Clark, of Clark sville, will probably be a candidate for Bruce at the next election. It is reported that a well known Dunedin lawyer, formerly connected with journalism, has left suddenly and that sundry persons would be glad to hear of hi-> whereabouts. ! The Rev. padded, M.A., was inducted into 'the pastorate of St. Andrews yesterday. Mr J. A. M a eke i zie, Secretary of Cromwell Quartz Mining Company, lias a telegram from the mine manager to the effect:—Lodged 7500 z last .night the result of four weeks crushing from 47 tons of stone.” The Cromwell Company are evidently on a very rich reef, as successive crusliings are giving an increasing yield. The latest averages nearly 2ozs. to the ton. Auckland, April 19. Two hundred Natives are being now drilled as a bodyguard to Tawhuio. for the Native Conference. The approaches to Kopu are strictly guarded by a body of men under Hoimi Matuo, to prevent Europeans coming to the settlement till after the Native raeetsng. The house of the Rev. W. Barton, Native Wesleyan Minister, was burned down at Whakawbaka during the ah-.-mice of the family. Wellington, April 19. Mr Sheehan, when interviewing the natives on' his : visit to the Coast hist week devoted his attention to examining the alleged promises. He states that he found that every promise made either by Sir D. M'Lean or other Native Ministers has been fulfilled to the letter. As to the promises which Te Whiti alleges to have been made to himself, the closest invesigation failed to show’ that he had the slightest, grounds for his claims. He was given plainly to understand this. Two telegrams have been received by ths Government relative to the meeting now being held at Parihaka. The Native Commissioner of the distiict, telegraphs that Te Whiti has explicitly and publicly declared that on no account will hie allow any disturbance or breach of the .peace now existing between the two races. Mr Mackay reports that he is engaged with Te Whiti in discussing the whole question, and with every hope of a speedy solution of the difficulty, as the Maori Prophet as entirely dropped his mystical and prophetical style, and talks of matters in a businesslike manner. April 20. A soni of Mr R. J. Duncan,, aged about 14 years, went out rabbit shooting with some other boys yesterday. His gun accidently went oft and the charge lodged in the armpit, shattering the ana. The other boys had to carry him borne, some three miles ; and being unable to staunch the blood, he was barely alive when medical advice was obtained. He died soon afterwares.

Jas. Marshall, who was picked up on the footpath the other morning,' h j v ing fallen from an upstairs window of the Branch Hotel while drunk and asleep, died in the Hospital yesterday from internal injuries. The deceased leaves a wife and family in (Glasgow,