INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 98, 26 April 1881, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

Tauranga, Tuesday. The Native Land Court now sitting at Gisborne pissed the Maiingaru block of 100,000 acres, and the Waipa block of 57,000 acres. Both are in tbis district and hare been sold to Robert Cooper. The Tauranga County Council yesterday passed a resolution to proceed to sell all absentee JanJa two years in arrears of rates. This will briug a large area of good land into the market. Dunedin, Tuesday. Cheshire, a warder at the Queenstown Hospital, committed suicide by taking prussic acid. Jealousy was the cause. Garrelt is still unconscious. Auckland, Tuesday. The Locb Nee has arrived from London. At the settling on the races the following were the winnings paid to the various owners:~Mr M'Donald, £374; Mr Rutherford, £95; Mr Horsefall, £HG;'Mr Owen, £142; Mr Douglas, £52; Mr Smith, £57; Mr Lennard, £S5; Mr Walter, £23; Mr Ellis, £13; Mr Carina, £11. Total £873. A miner named Burke at Coromandel committed suicide by putting a rifle iu his month and blowing his head off. He was insane. About half past three this moaning a fire was observed in the saw mill of Jaggar and Parker on the reclaimed land in Freeman's Bay. The fire bells rang, and Boon a crowd gathered to the spot, but before the fire was discovered it had a firm hold on the building, and there was no chance of saving any part of the premises. In a short time the Fire Brigade were on the ground, and began to play upon the adjoining premises and stock in the yard, thus preventing the fire from spreading. The saw mill had a large stock of timber in it which was all destroyed. The mill and stock were worth nearly £3000. The fire was first seen in the centre of the building near the steam engine. Recently the premises and machinery were sold for about £1500, and additions have since been made. The only insurance on it is £5000 (?) in the National office to cover a mortgage. Some Hauhau natives near Huntley destroyed the fencing and fruit trees on the land of a settler, named Hill, whose title they dispute though held under a crown grant. The occurrence has no political significance. Tawhiao's Hikaranga meeting is a failure. At no time have more than from 600 to 700 natives assembled, and nothing beyond the customary feasting and nose-rubbing has been accomplished. An attempt has been made to conceal the failure by adjourning until the middle of July. Evidently the King movement is undergoing the process of rapid disintegration, and if left alone it will evaporate. The leading Kingite natives Bhow a disposition to Bell their land, and the Mokau natives withdrew from the meeting, declaring their intention to have no more to do with the King. It is stated on good authority that if the money were available no great difficulty would be experienced in getting a railway right through the King country to New Plymouth. The Lands Court at Cambridge have passed another large block through, opening 90,000 acres hitherto closed to Europeans for settlement, The Kingites came in freely to prove their titles before the Court. It is estimated that half a million acres of native lands beyond Cambridge, and bordering on the King territory, have been opened up for settlement. The result of the meeting of the northern natives to celebrate the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi and the opening of the Waitangi Hall was a series of resolutions affirming the necessity for a Maori Parliament to make laws for the Maori people. They reaffirm their unflinching loyalty to the Queen, but the memorial declares that "the Government of New Zealand have milked the cow that was sent by Queen Victoria as a covenant to the tribes of New Zealand. They are those who have deceived us, and that is the cause of the Maori people being weak and oppressed in the land. This is why it is now asked that the Maori tribes shall be gathered into one sheaf. All our grievances shall bo settled by this Parliament. We are anxious to manage things concerning the Maori tribes only and not to break the law. The first grievance we felt in these lands has been the purchasing of land by the Ministers that brought the gospol to New Zealand. Their mode of purchase was just seizing the land at that time, having no surveyor. The second grievance is that the ministers say that all the seized land has gone by purchase to the Church Committee. Let us now, the Maori tribes, think over the name of this monster as the land swallower, The whole of the land of New Zealand is, swallowed in his belly,'? •

■Amrei'.--"(!Uy c? fSyJ/iey, w n»Jt lor J.iiui Kivuioiijco v.'f/u iLit oi» ; \v:ira Mails. \vjj.i,i:<aTo.\ T , Tuesday. -A i'ai:»] acciciirit occurred »t Kaiwarra k\9f. ",i(.;ht. An oltl sfitllor ftt r J.a-,v:i Fl.it named William IV.ckiif.iii. ,--. <jart<.-r, wers diiviug homo d'ciu tmvn ar.tl bra! Vo ford the Kaiwarr.'i sf ro/ini (the bridge in.'teig under repair) when ho mistook ihe road, to tJu; ford, and if. is supriopod rhaf-, in attempting lo (urn, (,!;<• horse and cart slipped over thn embankment. The. cart was discovered by two men, und on search being made Prckhnin was found underneath it, lii'o being extinct. Lie leaves a wife und laryc fatuity, GmcmouTH, Tuesday. Mrs M'Gnhey has petitioned the (iovomment for meniiH lo enable her to loavo Rccfton. tip lo the prenont limo tho police have been unable to find any trace of tho gun with which tho murder in supposed to have benn coiiimittcd. Tho money found in M'Gihey's posßCPsiou is satisfactorily accdintcd tor. Me-ers and IJatHn arrived here yctterday. CnntsToiirijUii, Tuesday. An inquest on tho body of Kico Foulkcs was held yesterday,- and a verdict of stiici U'. whilst in a state ri[ tempoiary insanity wus returned. Tho foreman of the jury thought tho polics should have obtained evidence, as to Foulkcs' financial position, as iome ouo might possibly have robbed him. Jin was known, however, to bo in financial diflicultJeß, and +ror*i tho position .in which the body was found with the gini tied io Uio loft foot there cau bo no doubt of suicide The J)rainago Board by flvo to three yeaterday refused to cancol thoir engineers, Mr Napier Bell's, engagement. Mr Bell is also secretary to the Harbor Board, and there is some dissatisfaction at. his holding both positions, though no objection was made at tho time, and by arrangement "with the Drainage Board his salary waß reduced. At the snme time he holds an agreement with the Drainage Board for five years. Wanoanui, Tuesday. A fire broke rut in Leslie's plumber's shop last night. The building and contents were much damaged. The insurances are, £150 on the stock and tools in the North British, and £200 on the building in the New Zealand. Tne Supreme Court opened yesterday Paul Lehruke for larceny was sentenced to 8 months hard labor ; Win. Miners for larceny to 18 months hard labor, and F. Christie for larceny to 12 months hard labor. The Grand Jury threw out the bill against Hall and his daughter Christina Goodrun for child murder, the medical evidence not being conclusive.