TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 4791, 31 July 1876, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(pee peess agency.) Taubanga, Saturday. Akuhata Tupae, eldest son of Hori, the great Ngatvirangi chief, notifies in the Bay of Plenty Times that the majority of the Taurauga natives have embraced the Hauhau religion. The Times comments on the gravity of the announcement, and says that the King’s influence is unquestionably again in the ascendancy. • Ddnedin, Saturday. The Kev. Hugh Cowio, missionary to Chinese immigrants in Otago, lias arrived from Amoy. The Union S.S. Co. have purchased the s.s. Tairoa. CirnißTcmmcn, Saturday. Fuller, who took poison on Thursday last, died last night. It is now said he took poison intentionally, owing to his dismissal from the position of taxidermist at the museum. Hokitika, Saturday. A crowded public meeting was held in the Town Hall last night, the Mayor in the chair, to consider the state of the Hokitika river. The following resolutions were carried:—“That it is highly necessary for the safety of the port that all the water of the Hokitika river bo concentrated in one channel.’’ “ That the Borough Council be requested to take the advice of a competent engineer with regard to the advisability of making a wingdam at or near the point where the old wingdam stood, for the purpose of turning the water running down the north channel into the lagoon, and that the Borough Council be requested to spend such a sum as is necessary to give effect to the opinion of the meeting ; and if the Harbor Trust were appointed, the money expended should be refunded.” A ratepayers’ committee was 'appointed, to confer with the Borough Council on the subject.