Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. SATURDAY. AUGUST 23, 1884. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 228, 23 August 1884, Page 2

Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. SATURDAY. AUGUST 23, 1884. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

r We learn from excellent authority that the "natives of the Tuhua District (King Country-)- have . d etcrinined to; do nothi ng towards encouraging prospectors m the"' reported goldfieids until the return .of Tawhiao from Europe. It is hoped (says the Bay of Plenty Times) when that iinI portant day arrives it may be the beginning o£ an era marked by enlarged and lightened views, m the native mind. How far the Aborigines Protection Society- may succeed m doing mischief, by inoculating the King with ideas imimpoßsible to realize, remains to be seen. . . • ' From a biography of the late Mr Terry, of Papawai, which appears m a Wairarapa paper, we loam that his first voyage to the colonies was as fireman of the Great Britain, m which he arrived at Melbourne about 1861. Owing to the gold fever, which prevailed at that- time, Jal most; all hands deserted the ship, Terry Mnibugsfr them. -He was not "very successful at gold digging, and came to Wellington m 1804. * • TheTaieri Advocate hears that Dr. Parry h^as received ah excellent Government appointment m Victoria, the Medical Association of that' colonjr having bestirred themselves m his interest. This is the dronken doctor whose inhuman neglect caused the death of a woman, and. .who, was tried and convicted on a charge of : manslaughter. The following remarkable statement is made by the Auckland 5 Observed :— " For some time a singular document . haß been circulated amongst the Maoris" m the King Country by an agent of the Native Office. It is a form of assignment, under which the native owners transfer . their land to the Public Trustee m Wellington under the Public Reserve Act. The block proposed to be dealt with m this way is an enormous tract of country. Roughly speaking it comprises tlve whole of the country from the north side of Kawhia harbor, eastward to the Waikato river, thence southward to Taupo, Kairaanawa river, and the source of the Rangitikei river, thence westward to the Waitara river, and along the coast to the starting point. Two men who were brought up at the Wellington Court this week charged with interfering with the police must ■have doubtlesscoraetothejconclusion that the amusement is one too expensive to be frequently indulged m. The total amount of the penalties and costs was £16 38, which was handed over to the : Clerk of J the Court immediately after the cases had been heard. The men only arrived from Blenheim late thepievious evening, and when arrested had m their possession a sum of £18, so that the amount remaining after payment of the fines and costaf was hardly. £2.