LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Kumara Times, Issue 884, 31 July 1879, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[press AGENCY.] Wellington, July 30. A great many cases of distress in the city are reported, owing to the want of suitable employment. The. voluntary contributions to the Benevolent Society are inadequate and unusually small. The Government organ savs that, when the Governor asks the Premier as to who among the Opposition he will send for, Sir George will not recommend anything, except the immediate o rani in of a 1 ■ ■. . .. ;,. w(

Dunedin, July 30. At Henley a woman was cun over by a railway train, near the railway bridge, one leg being severed from the body. She was carried about a chain. The City Council has voted 1200 towards experimenting with Ashbury’s system of heating and ventilating buildings. [new ZEALAND PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Wellington, July 29. The Native prisoners taken at New Plymouth recently, and sentenced to be imprisoned in Dunedin, will Be for warded therein the Hinemoa, which left for New Plymouth yesterday. At the Supreme Court Chamber this morning Gordon Allen, on behalf of Gleich, who was recently charged as a fraudulent debtor at Adelaide, had Detective Brown summoned to show cause why the money and jewellery found upon him at the time Should not be restored, At the instigation of counsel application was adjourned for a week. The Government have decided to place new moorings at Kaikoura. At a meeting of the Tramway Company a resolution, empowering the directors to borrow money, was confirmed. July 30. The sfearner Hinemoa. arrived here at 5 o’clock this ,evening with 71 Native prisoners, who were ploughing. The whole of the Natives were placed in the fore hold of ike vessel, and were guarded by a large body of A.C. Immediately on arrival, 25 of the prisoners, who had been convicted and ordered to be sent to Wellington, were placed in a lai'ge bus drawn by four horses, and taken to the barracks. The remaining prisoners were left on board, and will be sent to Port : Chalmers in the Hinemoa. During the passage, which was very rough, all the Natives were very quiet and obedient. Gisborne, July 30. Harry Eenrick, R.M., succeeds Col. Fraser as B.M. and Warden ab the Thames. THE NATIVE DIFFICULTY. Ne\V Plymouth, July 26. The Hinemoa arrived at 11 o’clock, and 63 prisoners marched down to the beach under a strong escort, 38 of them are for Dunedin, and 25 for Wellington, As the procession ' marched through the street, followed by a large number of spectators, the Natives were not the least disconcerted, and, as a number had congregated at the beach to see the prisoners off, the prisoners were taken off to the Hinemoa in two boat loads. Amongst thein was one of Titokowaru’s braves, who, it is said, performed some terrible acts of multilation on the bodies of Europeans during the last war. Another arrest was made to-day at Puiaranga. Sergeant Garland early in the morning with a patty of men proceeded to the land of Mr Turnbull, where he found eight Natives in the act of ploughing. They were at once arrested and brought to town, charged before the Besident Magistrate, and sentenced to two months’ imprisonment at Dunedin, and to find surities to keep the peace for twelve months.