LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Patea Mail, Volume IV, Issue 373, 13 November 1878, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

(Per Press Agency.) CHRISTCHURCH.; 'November 12. The Christchurch Hospital costs £5,500 per annum. * Bailway traffic was resumed this morning on the north line. It had boon partially stopped by the Waimakiriri overflowing again. A deputation of the.Chamber of Commerce will wait, npotnfhe. Colonial Secretary to-morrow, lo urge. upon him the necessity for defence works being immediately undertaken at Lyttelton Harbour, in view of-the. present serious aspect of European affairs. At the sale of Mr Gilligan’a racing stud, there was a large attendance. 'Danebury was bought by Mr K. Vailance.fnr £soi) ; Laertes by Mr J. Walker, of Wanganui, £475 ; Fiction by Mr Butler, £250; Mufti by Mr B. Mason, £425,; Lady of the L ike by air Walker..9s guineas, Songster by Mr Black, £275 ; .Javelin was bought in at £775. At the sale of prize stock, Prince William realised 240 guineas ; Morlft 220 .guineas ; Awamoa 100 guineas ; White Bit fieri ey 115 guineas. ■ - ALEXANDRA. November 12. Another report concerning the murderer liiroki, has arrived. 1 A Hikurtmgi native named Tinnake, .who. has just returned from Parihaka, states that He saw ami conversed with liiroki, who is not wounded at all. That when he saw the .search party looking for him-, he put his puraki mat-ami hat on a stump, which was fired at. The mat only being wounded, Hiruki escaping v.n'n art. HUTT. November 12. A case has just come to light in which it lias been found that a’settler named Wood, in the Waimuomata Valley, eleven miles from this has had his sister fa violent lunatic), under restraint in his own house for over twenty years. Air Mansford, 8.M., was’authorised by the Government to ascertain the truth of the information. On visiting the place, he found that where the lunatic was habitually kept was a little den about six feet square, one side being occupied with a closet, and the other with the creature's hunk. Air Mansford said the case was a bad one. It is reported the woman has been subject U, ill usage, but upon that point there has been no examination yet. Woods is reported to be a very worthy and industrious settler.