LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Kumara Times, Issue 1564, 1 October 1881, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

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Auckland, September 30. Recruits fur the Constabulary accepted this morning were in. the afternoon dismissed, owing to instructions from Wellington. The men are very indignant. Hurst telegraphed to Government on their behalf. Wellington, September 30. The following registrars of electors of electoral disricts have been appointed : Plenty Lucas, Inangahua; Win. Alfred Barton, Greymouth and Kumara : Marcus Furlong South, Hokitika. ■ Dunedin, September 30. The biggest dredge ever made for the Dunedin Harbor Board left Glasgow on the 24th inst. New Plymouth, September 30. A little girl, five years old, named Maria Bason, was drowned at Urenui yesterday. The child was found in a png-hole full of water in Rowe’s brick field. The child was staying with her sister, her parents being in Wanganui. Christchurch, September 30. An absurd rumor was going about town this afternoon, of the natives having broken out and shot six or seven A.C. men. There was a good deal of excitement in consequence, and the newspapers were rushed. Other rumors of thirty-three mysterious telegrams cropped up later on, all equally baseless. The Press states this morning that the Hon. J. Hall will not seek reelection for Leeston, but offer himself for the representation of Sehvyn district. A NATIVE DIFFICULTY.

Hawera, September 30. The ploughing difficulty near Otakeho has been satisfactorily settled. Adam Hunter,.owner of the land, yesterday interviewed the Native Minister and asked what he should do. He was informed that if he desired the Natives to be removed or arrested, that should be done, but if he preferred to make arrangements with them the Government would not interfere. It was entirely in his (Hunter’s) hands. Hunter thought, under the circumstance-, he could hardly be expected to bring his wife and family to live on deferred payment land. The Native Minuter declined to mix up the question of residence with that of Maori trespass. If Hunter wanted the Maoris removed he had only, to say so, and ic would bo done. Of course it was possible that the Maoris might make further trouble, xt was pointed out by Cnptain Wilson that the Maoris were willing to give a

share of the crop, and said they had no other ground to cultivate. After some delay, Hunter agreed to accept one-third of the crop as the rent of the land, Captain Wilson and Hunter then proceeded to Otakeho and , saw the Maoris, who had not ploughed since the previous day. Tairua Kena, a returned prisoner, objected, but ultimately gave way and consented, with the rest of the Maoris (about half-a-dozen) to pay the rent in kind. Hunter still declines to take his wife and family on the land,- and consented to an arrangement, partly to avoid the responsibility of being the first to bring possible trouble on the Plains, and partly so as not to incur personal odium from the Natives.