TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 5129, 31 August 1877, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(MSB PRESS AGENCY.)

Feilding, Thursday.

Mr. Robert Ward, R.M., the commissioner appointed by the Governor to investigate the allegations made by the chairman of the Manawatu County Council against the validity of the petition of the Manchester and Kiwitea settlers for separation, brought the inquiry to a conclusion yesterday, and found (1) that there were no false names on the petition, as alleged ; (2.) that some had signed who were not entitled to sign ; (3.) that three-fifths of the electors comprised within the riding to be formed into a new county signed the petition. . New Plymouth, Thursday.

The District Court sat to-day, when Wm. Clemoe was sentenced to one mouth under the Fraudulent Debtors Act, 1875.

Horo Papara, who was captured after escaping from gaol, was sentenced to two years. Jacob Street hung himself at Bell Block this morning. The first passenger carriage ran as far as Inglewoodyesterday. Thesettlers are anxiously inquiring as to when the line will he open to the public. Auckland, Thursday.

Samoan advices state that the war is over. The victorious party —which now form the present Government —are those who sided with Steinberger. The chiefs of the defeated tribes took refuge at the British Consulate. The victors demanded their surrender, guaranteeing that they should not he injured. The Consul refused, and called upon the captain of the schooner John Wesley to take his despatches to the Governor of Fiji, with which request he reluctantly complied, as he was bound elsewhere on missionary work. Kdmara, Thursday.

li. M. Hogg, late agent in charge of the Bank of New South Wales, was examined before the Resident Magistrate to-day. The evidence showed that the prisoner had confessed to the police that he alone had concocted the robbery. He was committed to take his trial at the Supreme Court at Hokitika. Dunedin, Thursday.

A meeting of the members of the Jewish persuasion was held last night to consider the Education Bill. It was resolved that subsection 3 of clause 85 should be struck nut ; that in clause 75 the words “ non-religious ” should be added after “books;” also, that education should be purely secular. At a meeting of delegates of friendly societies held here last night the following resolution was carried:—“ That the time has arrived for the various friendly societies in Dunedin to co-operate for the purpose of establishing a medical dispensary, to be called * The Dunedin United Friendly Societies’ Dispensary.’ ”