TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1148, 19 December 1879, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

r # j (PEK PKESS ASSOCIATION.) WELLINGTON. J December 18. The Parihaka meoting ended yesterday. : The natives are returningiJiome, wearing c broad flax leaves round their waists in • imitation of belts, and have flax sticks 5 hanging from ihemlike swords, in ridicule r of the troops. To Whiti says the truth will appear this year, and nothing can prevent it coming out. He persists that there will be no fighting. He made no allusion to the prisoners, and said he 1 would settle matters himself as spokesman | of the Maori race. There was only a : small attendanceof Maoris and Europeans. • There are no symptoms of a decline in thorough belief in To Whiti. i William Hales was charged with voting t twice at the recent election for the House. • The evidence was taken, and the accused - remanded to allow the voting papers to 1 be produced. The reporters of the press gallery yes- : terday afternoon presented Sir. E. T. Gillon, chairman of the gallery, with a handsome walnut stationery cabinet in acknowledgment of his services during the present session. The cabinet was accompanied by a testimonial. CHRISTCHURCH. December 19. The first annual meeting of the Canterbury Temperance League was held last night. About thirty members were preseut. A builder named Matthew Allan took liquid ammonia in mistake for his medicine on Wednesday, and died yesterday. He was seventy years of age. AUCKLAND. December 19. Rewi is recovering rapidly. He will hold a meeting of the Ncatiinaniopotos on Saturday.

The Bteward of the s.s. Tangihua, named George, was drowned at Aratapu. He fell overboard. The Melanesian schooner, Southern Cross, has arrived from the Islands, after an eight month 3 cruise. She left Bishop Selwyn and party at Norfolk Island, all well. Passengers—The Rev. Mr. Goodrington and Mr. Cummings. • ASHBURTON. December 19. Two watch-stealers were dealt with today. Ford (the thief of a Ll2 gold watch) i was committed for trial; Brennan, who | .stole a thing worth 10s. from a drunken i ploughman, was sent to gaol for three | with hard labor.