LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Patea Mail, Volume V, Issue 427, 21 May 1879, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

(Per Press Agency;)' WELLINGTON. May 20. The s.s. Patea sailed at noot to-day for Patea. When she had reached Jerningham Point, Mr J, Lett, one of the passengers, was seized with a fit, which appearing very dangerous, the steamer' returned to the wharf. Dr Oollins was at once sent for, and ordered Mr Lott to be conveyed to the house of his brother. The Times says some members of the Police Force lately taken on, are a disgrace to force, and says that one supposed to be on duty on Saturday on principal thoroughfare was quite intoxicated ; and that on Sunday morning two other members of the force in plain clothes were under influence of liquor, and behaved in most abusive manner to several passers by in Manners street. The Anderson-Easby assault case has been adjourned for a fortnight, in consequence of the absence from town of one of the witnesses. Several fresh cases of typhoid fever have made their appearance in the same locality, outside of city, where disease first broke out, and it is supposed these fresh cases originated from some persons who have been working in the placey thinking all danger had now passed. WANGANUI. May 20. W. G. Watt, Storekeeper, Marton, has filed a declaration of insolvency. Assets, £7,420 ; liabilities, £19,000. Largest creditors in Wellington and Wanganui. AUCKLAND. May 20, Belle Brandon, from Marshall Group, reports continued fighting at ttie Island of Majura. Several native men and women have been killed. , .1 The Premier leaves to-morrow for Wellington. Sheehan will probably accompany him. There have been great floods up country. Telegrams from Drury states that at Hunua huge logs were tossed up into paddocks.

Wire fencing is covered with‘ grass and rushes, washed up against them. Bridges collapsed on the Great Southern Road. They were only repaired the other day by the County Council. Slippery Creek Bridge was washed entirely out of the district. KIHI KIEL May 20. The southern boundaries of the territory mentioned in Revvi’s proposals, or from Taupo to Pukehare, is undefined, as many of the places laid down in the proposals are unknown to Government and Europeans; in fact the whole of the boundaries are only tentatively given. In the northern portion of the reserve the King is reported to have some interest. The boundaries of this block will have to be surveyed. It will be noticed that by the action of Government, the original proposals at Hikurangi, to make Tawhiao a kind of independent princelet in this territory, is now abandoned. The consent of Apiha, Wetere, Taimui, Heremia, and others, to Eewi’s proposals, enables the Mokau River and its coal-fields to be connected with the Waitara line of railway' at once, as the owners are anxious for working the Mokau coal; It will enable owners to run a line of rails up the Mokau River District some distance, and the probability of the objecting land owners preventing combination thence to Awamutu or elsewhere, will bo considerably lessened. Apiha and Wetere are firmly determined to open Mokau.