TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4544, 13 October 1875, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(PEU PRESS AGENCY.) Hamilton, Tuesday. The Waikato Times , although a supporter of the Government, severely handles the Representation Bill, and has called upon every settlement throughout the district to oppose it. Tourists for Ohinemutu are arriving daily, many preferring this route to that via Tauranga. Alexandra, Tuesday.

Tawhiao and party are all oif to a large feast at Petetere. On its conclusion all will return to the Hikurangi feast. It is reported that Sir George Grey will come to meet Tawhiao at Hikurangi shortly. There is a fresh in the river, and the natives continue to bring down produce in their canoes.

Nelson, Tuesday.

A serious accident occurred yesterday on the railway to a man named McMurray, who, in attempting to use the break, lost his footing and fell, the train passing over his leg, and cutting it off. He is now in a very precarious condition.

Thomas Askew, an old settler, was drowned at Croixelles by a boat upsetting. Christchurch, Tuesday.

John Williams, arraigned at the last session of the Supreme Court for obtaining 1200 cornsacks from a Christchurch merchant by false pretences, but discharged on a technicality, has been re-arrested on a charge of obtaining sacks at Ballarat, Victoria, by false pretences. It seems that Detective Feist suspected Williams of being a Victorian offender, and while Williams was awaiting trial, Feist communicated with the Victorian authorities, and his suspicious proved correct. A warrant was received from Victoria last steamer, and Williams was at once arrested. A court of the Ancient Order of Druids is to be established here.