TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
(per press agency.) Auckland, Wednesday. The missionary schooner Southern Cross has arrived from a cruise. The Rev. Mr. Selwyn is a passenger. She visited the Santa Cruz group, where the natives gave an account of the reason for the murder of Bishop Patteson. One native said he had warned the Bishop against going to Nakawa. The murder was perpetrated in revenge for an outrage by a labor vessel on a canoe, in which tour natives were killed and four taken away. The Rev. Rather Paul’s furniture has been again seized for education rate. Tauranqa, Wednesday. Some natives picked up on the beach between Tauranga and Maketu the head of a moa, measuring three feet six inches from the back of the skull to the end of the upper mandible. It was washed out of the sand hills during the recent gale. The Bay of Plenty Times publishes a remarkable proclamation from the Maori King to tribes resident in the Bay of Plenty, Rotorua, and Taupd districts. It is the most unique specimen of veritable ancient Maori language. , The document has been translated by Young, assisted by Marsh,’ an Arawata chief. The King urges the maintenance of peace, deplores the want of unanimity among Maori tribes, invites wanderers to return to his fold, consequent upon which a new era will dawn for- both races. The proclamation is keenly sought after by the Herald's own correspondent here, who offered a' considerable nun for it.
Hokitika, Wednesday. Mrs. Gibson, the wife of a carpenter, was found dead in bed this mornings Westport, Wednesday.
The sale of the hull and engines of the Matau realised £620.. Sundries fetched good prices.
Greymouth, Wednesday.
At a meeting of directors of the Golden Fleece Extended Company, Reefton, the month’s crushing was reported as returning 1370 ounces of melted gold. A dividend of 2s. per scrip was declared, equal to £4BOO. Christchurch, Wednesday. At a meeting of cricketers last night it was resolved to accept the terms of the English cricketers, viz., to give them a bonus of £6O and to allow them the gates and booth privileges. It is intended, if possible, to play a match with Otago the same week as with the English eleven, and also to get up a combined team of Otago and Canterbury men to play them. The Christchurch men will number eighteen.
Dunedin, Wednesday. Mr. J. M. Russell was charged to-day by Mr. Smythies with perjury in 1867. No action has been taken here as yet with regard to the Vogel testimonial. The Rev. George Maurice, late of Napier, has accepted a unanimous call to the Presbyterian Church, Hokitika. Port Chalmers, Wednesday.
Arrived.—The schooner Hira from Auckland Islands. She was compelled to give up the search for the wreck of the General Grant, the weather being dead against the enterprise. The crew found the cave, but could not approach from the landward side, the cliffs being from 1000 ft. to 1500 ft. high. The wreck is broken up, and there were pieces on the beach. At Ross Bay she supplied Nelson and his wife, placed there by Dr. Monckton, with provisions. They were nearly starving, subsisting on seal flesh and shellfish.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 4854, 12 October 1876, Page 2
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