LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Patea Mail, Volume II, Issue 137, 2 August 1876, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

{Per Press Agexct. ] TAURANGA. July 29. Akuhata Tupae, eldest son of Hbri, the great Ngaturangi chief, notifies to the Bay of Plenty Times that the majority of the Tauranga natives have embraced the Hauhau religion. The Times comments on tlie gravity of the -announcement, and says that the King's influence is unquestionably again in -he osctr.dcacy. ■VYBbV/Nf'TGN. July 29. The Education Board has unanimously passed a resolution protesting against the special grant of £SOO to assist in the building of Oaths he schools. HOKITIKA. July 29. A crowded public meeting was held in the Town Hal! last night, “To take into consideration the present state of the Hokitika river.” His Worship the Mayor occupied the chair. The following resolutions were carried :—l. “ That it is highly necessary for the safety of the port that aid the water of the Hokitika liver should bo concentrated into one channel.” 2. “•That the Borough Council be reeus'terl to t~ke the advice of a competent engine »r 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 theBorough Council be requested to spend such a sum as is necessary to give effect to the opinion ot meeting ; and, if a Harbour Trust is appointed, the money so i emended to be refunded.” A ratepayers’ emu littee was appointed to confer with .. e Borough Council on the subject. s

■ CHRISTCHURCH. July 29. , Fuller, employed as Taxidermist at the Museum, who ,vas thought to have poisoned himself on Thursday, died last night. It is now said that he took poison intentionally, owing to his dismissal from the position of Taxidermist at the Museum. August 1. Ac ?. meeting of the Drainage Board the engi .eer said that, according to calculations he had made, the discharge of sewage ar.d artesian water in Christchurch amounted to 290 gallons per head of population every 24 hours, rood that nine tenths of the artesian water was running to waste. Also, that as new artesian wehs were sunk, old on".s rapidly decreased in supply. , I j was resolved to apply to the General As-:snihly. for power to exercise control rsv artesian wells, with a view to prevent ■. raste. A strong football tea s will be got together to play th- ;To.thorn provinces DUi-'HOr.-T. J- J 7 29. The City of New York has taken the North island portion of the Suez mail. The Rev. Hugh ‘-.v.vio, Missionary to the 0 jiies'i hnr:iigv-its in Otago, has arrived from Amoy. The Uni in Steamship Company have purchased the Taivoa. NELSON. August 1. The following .telegram received from the manager of the Richmond Hill Silver m'ne Struck ore in drive, ten inches thick, ten feet from shaft, vein rapidly '.h'chrnmg.