LATEST TELEGRAMS

Kumara Times, Issue 842, 12 June 1879, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS

[press agency.] Wellington, June 11. ; It is stated in well-informed circles that any increase in the land tax which may be proposed next session will not affect properties under the value of £ISOO, in regard to which the present rate of one halfpenny in the £ will be maintained. Tenders will be called for the construction of the first section of the Wellington and Foxton Railway during the curreut month. A verdict of £35 and costs was given against the Wellington Tramway Company to-day, because a car ran off the track, and a woman Was somewhat in* jured,. £2OO was claimed. ■ • June 12r. It is considered settled that Sir Mm. Fitzherbert will be the next speaker in the Legislative Council ] and it is ex pected Mr O’Rorke will succeed him in .the in the Lower House, Tenders are invited by the Government for the erection of a Chief Post Office and Telegraph Station at Wellington. A private letter states that the distress among industrial classes of Great Britain is so great that from 500 to 900 applications are received daily at the New Zealand Agency from persons in distress-Wisfriiig..ito come out to the colony. ' '- l!W 3 ;" The BalfelUtfra (Qtago) people inteiPd to petition Parliament for compensation for losses by flood through the erection of the railway embankment.

[new ZEALAND PRESS ASSOCIATION.] THE NATIVE DIFFICULTY. Hawera, June 7. A. great change has taken place in the attitude of ..the natives in the locality where the - surveyors were turned off the Blains, and Commissiouejr Williams plainly warned them of the consequences. They were told by pakeha Maoris, interested parties, that Government could not and dare not fight. Now, seeing the Government are ready and the grand spontaneous rising to arm of the settlers and the proper* ation of regulars throughout the island, they are getting cowed, and some say that if we march on to Parihaka they will lie down and hot resist. Te Whiti will give up Huroki for execution. They see plainly that Jobii ’ Bull is awake,, and-that the game of. bounce is played put. I fancy the whole thing will now be settled without the sheding of blood. Huroki must be brought in and Parihaka destroyed; the Light House, with redoubt erected at, Cape Egmont, and the natives made to accept or forfeit the reserves taken by Government, and their being placed upon satisfactory basis. Nothing but. this action of the government and the admirable display of patriotism by the settlers of Taranaki and here could have checked the Maoris growing in audacity until murders would have been committed. Even now we must not relax in our work, for we have a crafty statesmen and experienced warriors to deal with, and in conseque»ce we must likewise be prepared for any emergency until everything is settled. I have a strong belief that Government will, and that shortly, achieve a great victory without bloodshed over the fanatics, who deserve some measure of compassion as the original owners and natives of . the soil. . Our Volunteers roll up cheerfully to drill, and soon will be thoroughly efficient. J . Wellington, June 9. The amount agreed to be advanced by the Bank of New Zealand on account of the Muncipal Corporation loan of .£IOO,OOO is £IO,OOO.

Some excellent specimens of goldbearing quartz have been obtained from within a mile of the city. June 11. It is reported to-day, on apparently good authority, that the Maoris have determined to suspend their ploughing operations until after the coming meeting at Parihaki, when they expect some further superhuman enlightment from To Whiti as to the course they should pursue. The reasons which induced his Excellency to remove his son from the Wellington College to Nelson had no connection with any educational contrast between the two institutions, but that, on the contrary, his Excellency had no fault to find with the Wellington College as an educational institution. The amended financial statement of the Education Boards show a deficiency of £7OOU, after exhausting the Government grant for the two years. The-newly formed Naval Brigade have offered their services to the Government to go to the front. ihe City Council has been recommended to have all houses numbered.

Dunedin, June 10. It has been decided to entertain Mr District Judge Bathgate at a .public ' banquet, on the 2?th irtat, prior .to. bis ■; departure ; for Great Britain. It is stated that the Construction of - * a double line of railway , from Port Chalmers to Mosgiel -la likely to -be-* * brought before Parliament at its next sitting,, as a single line has-bee found—insufficient. June 9. A man hamed JWt was admittd into the Hospital suffering from-a-.-fractnred thigh caused by a horse Jamming hint between two trees. Mrs Lawson broke.her leg by slipping . doWn a bank at the back of her house. . June ,■* Mr Horatio BuntiUg lias obtained ■. patent for abincW. It makesa f ted band, places, it. round the sheaf,' .* : twists.the ends, well together, and tucks them in.' ‘ A working model will be ex- \ hibited in about a fortnight. Auckland, June 9. • A boy named Alfred Walker, nine years of age, son of Constable Walker, accidently shot himself at Mercer on Saturday. Himself, and- his brother,' eleven years of a e, were playing with their father’s revolver, not knowing., that two of the chambers were 'hjaded. Theyoitpger brother tried to take it from the elder, and in doing so,, touched .^e, trigger, and the charge entered his ,abdpmeu. He was talon to the hospital where be lies in a ’critical condition. ■ "': •i •. child of a woman named Hart, who was recently prosecuted; for "child* ; • desertion, Wa? found dead, iu its bed, ; apparently having been overlaid. . . A man named Thomas Beeco wan - killed at a 4?r,q' at the Onehunga--Hotel-on Sunday.. . , ‘ June.lO.;* ; =-*.« . On Monday the Native Minister, and /. k Bewi were ; entertained-at dinner by the chief Paul, at Oraki, in true Maori style. A large number of persons were present, including severs! influential chiefs from the Tanpo district.