TELEGRAPHIC.

Manawatu Herald, Volume II, Issue 16, 17 October 1879, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC.

(per pbess agency.) New* Plymouth, Tuesday. . At a meeting of the Waste Lands yesterday, the Chief CommisH^ioner was instructed to prosecute John Wix, for depasturing cattle on the Waimate Plains. Auckland, Tuesday. A person named Sheridan Carlisle Hall has been committed for trial for obtaining: forty pounds' worth of goods on false pretences from Mr Caulton, of the Albert Hotel. Prisoner represented that ho was expecting money from Dunedin, and officers of the Telegraph Department were called to prove that prisoner altered the telegram to give color to

the belief that the { money was coming to him. Prisoner had lived luxuriously at the hotel, frequently inviting his friends to supper, and had rnn up a bill of £43 in five weeks. The Rotomahana made an excur sion round the harbour to-daj r . She was crowded with citizens, who much enjoyed the trip, and greatly admired the steamer. Grahamstown-, Tuesday. The lad Gollop, whose leg was broken a few days ago onthereclamation works, is doing w9ll, and the limb will be saved. Daldy McWilliam, the victim of the Ohinemuri outrage, is able to be about, and can walk with the aid of crutches. The medical examination confirms the suspicion that the hole in the skull found by the man Donnelly in a mullock was made during life. Tjmabct, Tuesday. At the Levels Road Board meeting to-day a resolution was passed expressing surprise at the action of the member for Geraldine, in giving notice of motion in the House that it is not advisable for the Levels Riding of the Geraldine County to be made into a new county. Gisboene, October 15. Some forty natives, advised by Te Manihera, a native chief and Assessor of the Wairarapa district, went on Mr Arthur's run at Te Komaru and drove his sheep off the run, Mr Arthur losing some six hundred lambs. They threaten to take possession of his homestead, also to take possession of several other runs along the East Coast, also a block of land the Government purchased called Taupaharepare. The natives say they are acting under the advice of Mr Rees. Native matters here look verj serious, and it is feared if the Government do not take steps to put things on a better footing, every run on the East Coast will be taken possession of by natives.