LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Kumara Times, Issue 1060, 23 February 1880, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION,]

Westport, February 21. At the District Court Elizabeth Marton, for Stabbing Rosanna Boyle, at the Lyell, was. sentepped to six weeks imprisonment.. Wm. Stewart, for assaulting M‘Lean, was acquitted. The verdict caused considerable surprise.

Dunedin, February 19. The Oamaru Mail states that Mr J. FT. Pope, ex master of the Girls' High School, has, been appointed Inspector of theJNative schools on bothielands. The Builders- Association has fixed the wages of employes as follows: Bricklayers, plasterers, and masons, 12s per day, carpenters 1 Os, laborers Bs. The. Carpenters Association has declined to accept Ipsq than 13s. CHRisTcupiieH, February 20. Yesterday morning a fire broke out in a back kitchen of Hathway’s store, East Oxford street. The building was soon burned down, and the East Oxford Town Hall caught fire before assistance could arrive, and was also destroyed. The insurances on the East Oxford fire are—Town Hall .£3OO in South British ; Hathway’a store and contents, £IOO in National and £325 in New Zealand. Very little was saved from either place, except the, furniture from the hall. The .tppk place at one o’clock this afternoon., The origin un-

iuM.i—iiißiifT i -liir.WTW. knowU. The loss as far as is known is £IOOO on store and £6OO on hall-. Conlplaihts are fatting made of fires in the Rakaia district, caused by the locomotive-, which are very dangttrons> and threaten to burn Up valuable ClOps if not seen In time. A. reaping and binding machine in South Kakaia district took fire .by some means and was bUfnttd. ’ The ’ horses were saved, and so was the “crop after some trouble. The origin is supposed to hare been the Want' of oil'on - the bearings, or a lighted match thrown into the machine. 1 Another fire is just reported. Oh Thursday night the slaughter house,of H. B. Lane, butcher, Ori Lincoln toad) was burnt, down. The damage was estimated at £4OO. Insurance £2OO in New Zealand. No Cause is given. The funeral of the Mayor's son, who was drowned last week, was attended by an immense concourse ,of citizens, business being suspended. The body> when found, WaS half eaten by, sharks. The companionship of the Herald have drawn Libeller in Catnoron’s five thousand pound sweep. i Wellington, February 20. A man named George LotfgbnrSt was arrested this evening on a charge of rape on his cousin, Elisabeth Adams, aged eight. The particulars of the Case are of a disgusting nature. February 2L The owners of the yacht Red; Jacket have challenged’ the Pet to sail a twenty-mile course for £25, ~ George LonghUrst, for alleged rape on his cousin, aged eight years, was remanded till Tuesda y. . r ; ~ WaNOanui, February 2(3. Native matters at TJrirautu are unsettled. Kemp Openly boasts t that lie has done with the Government, and threatens to burn Moorhouse’s homestead and turd off the sheep: prevents wood bein°j packed to the Napier camps. His influence between Wan. gamti and TaUpo is now ; paramount solely on account of his hostility to the whites On all the settlements on the Lower River. Kemp'has sent his gun to TaWhi&o as' a present. His attitude is most bounceable, and he is rousing up a feeling of’hostility' against the whites. The dispute re boundary is-now said) on good authority) to be but. a blind. Public feeling is very strong here, that Kemp’s■ pay as a Government officer should, at once cease) and that, he be celled, upon to answer for seditious Conduct. '

• ’ February 21. The latest particulars from Urimutil state that the ; disturbance had arisen in consequence of the Ftga te Whiti tnbe taking money, and permitting, sheep to gra2e on land for Which Kemp alleges they have no title.. The Nga te Whiti have 156 men at Waipuna,,headed by Karaitaioa, and Kemp has 90, The story 'that Remp sent his gun to TaWhlao Js not true, and arose in this way.—Hohepa,, belonging to a section of the Arawera,. bearing that a disturbance tfas imtriJiiept Came to Watpuna, and said there tnust be no fighting, dnd Kemp gave up his gun to Hohepa. The Herald goes into the matter at great length, showing that the whole affair had arisen from specu-* lators occupying land for which they have no title. Kemp's action is ex* plained, and it is asserted 'that he is only maintaining the; rights of his people. The Herald also shows that the land in question is still uuder proclamation, and that the difficulty has arisen from Government encouraging private speculators—Stud holme, Mor* riii, and Co.—to negotiate direct with the natives.

Auckland, February 20. Mr Richard Feltus fell off the Queen* street wharf In' the forenoon, and was helplessly drowning, when a young man named Evan Owens, a seaman on board the Penguin,jumped in and brought the exhausted man to Stringer’s wharf. Mr W. G. Hurst . exhibits onions growhyat his estate, Takapuna Lake, weighing 21b5.~10025., and measuring inches lid 1 circUmferencel The smallest in the'bed weighs over 11b. A chemical manure, was. used,. known as “ Hurst’s mixture.” ■ February 31. The French people who arrived by the. Griffin, from New Caledonia are, in great tribulrtion over the refusal of the'owner of the .vessel to deliver their luggage'Untess'; they pay a charge which is alleged he now mentions'for the first time. .The difficulty, is likely also to lead to amaction for assault, It seems that Mr G. Peltser, who has befriended his compatriots in many ways, since their arrival, on hearing of Mr Bishop’s demand, went down, to the: vessel, and interviewed the captain. He expressed his opinion in vigorous terms, and he avers that the owner assaulted him by pushing off the vessel, , besides making use of threatening language towards him. The facte will come out in due time.

• February 22. (The foreman of Fraser and Tinne’s •establishment was drowtied to-day while bathing at Mechanics Bay. . The ship Earl Granville from London is reported offt&fe Coast with fever en hoard. NAPitfft, February Is. Some Natives on Mr Hafrdings sta- ; fion, Mctoft Veriion, have stopped men fencing under threats of violence. Major Scully and an interpreter have - left for Mount “Vernon. A survey : party from the disturbed Patea country returned to town today* they having been threatened by natives. It is also - reported, though the report yet lacks 'confirmation, that lima have been turned off Mr Moorhoase*s Station. February 20. A presentation was made at the City . 'Council meeting of the Royal Humane Society’s medal to Hugh CoUUot who has-at different times saVed nine lives, six of them at Auckland. The meeting was crowded by the public.

• The Taupo correspondent of the Efetald telegraphs' that tbte famous ■white terrace at RotoVAahana has become discolored, presumably owing to the action of oxide of iron in the water. It is becoming pink in color. } S'he steamer Clyde, employed in trading between Kapiet and Wairoa, has gone ashore near - the mouth of the river, bat is expected to be got olf. For remainder M'Ws see last page.