TELEGRAMS.

Patea Mail, Volume VI, Issue 513, 29 April 1880, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

MR PARRIS’S OPERATIONS. Natives Refusing Ordeus. Oeo, April 27. The natives who arc farming the settlement at Taikatu say that Mr Parris interviewed them on Friday last, and told them they must more inland on to their reserve, which included all their present cultivation and houses, and the front line ofwhich is cut as far as Otuko. They refused to move, and referred Mr Parris to Purihaka, their only place of cultivation, and To Whiti, their spokesman and agent, Mr Parris threatened to send for the Constabulary and have them removed. This threat was received with perfect indifference. We were told that Titokowaru had agreed to the reserves, and that his defection from Te Whiti would have a great effect upon the natives, and yet those are his own people, and the settlement at Taikatu, inland, his own peculiar dwelling place. After attempting to give up all the laud, this Royal Commission has signally failed to withdraw a single native from Te Whiti. HEARTLESS CRUELTY. Christchurch, April 27th. At the Resident Magistrate’s Court to-day J. W. Crabtree was sentenced to a month’s hard labor for revolting cruelty to a mare. The animal was left to linger with a broken leg, which rotted away by degrees. THE CATTLE PLAGUE. Auckland, April 27th. At Waikato the slaughtering of cattle "for pleuro-pneuraonia is going on. Mr. Fanthani’s pure-brod short-horn bull,; Lord Darlingham, was killed .on suspicion; and the post-mortem examination shows tuberculosis. RESIGNATION OF MR HISLOP. Oamarn, Wednesday. Mr Hislop; M.H.R., announces his resignation. , A riimor is current that Mr W. L. Rees, of Napier, will contest the seat. SETTLEMENT OF MUEIMOTU DIFFICULTY > Napier, Wednesday.. . The Mnrimotu difficulty has been settled, the following letter having been received- from the chief, Hnika to Kongo:— “ Salutations ! , This is 'to let- yon know the Murimotir dispute bktwebn me and Kemp is settled and dead. I have sent;a letter t6‘ Renata,:Telling : hint there is no necessity ,for him or his lawyer, Hr. Buffer, to come np.”

Kemp has gone back to Wanganui. Dr. Duller returns to Napier to-night. The difficulty appears to have been settled without Bnllor’s assistance. SUDDEN DEATH. Dunedin, April 27th. A woman named Esther Teague died very suddenly yesterday. After taking lunch she went to her room, and was there found lying dead on the floor.