TELEGRAMS

Patea Mail, Volume VI, Issue 518, 11 May 1880, Page 3

TELEGRAMS

INFECTED CATTLE. Auckland, Monday. / Settlers in the Waikato .are incensed at the slaughter of cattle suspected of pleuro-pneumonia, but which, bn examimation, proved healthy. ' the female smuggler.' Auckland, Monday. Sarah Bostock, fined £IOO last week for smuggling, has been sent to gaol in default of payment. ' • REMOVING A MAGISTRATE. . . ; ‘ Napier, Monday. Ehcriczer Baker,. E.M. for Waiaoa, has been removed, and the petition for liis: reinstalment was only poorly signed. : DEATH OP J. MACASSEV. Dunedin, Monday. News has been received from Adelaide of the death of James ,Macassey, solicitor, of Dunedin, a well-known politician, • j.. ■ SUICIHL 13V POISON. - ! . : Dunedin, Monday. J. : .Burton, photographer, of 'George-street, committed,,suicide this’ morning'by taking chemicals, He had' been drinking heavily. r i r rLOUR' MIBL BURNED., I i i Dunedin,: Monday. ! A large fire broke out last night at Moir’s flour mills, Sonthbroook. Considerable damage wras donb, but, the building was 'saved from total destruction.

A. FAIIEWEUJ TO . WANGANUI. ■ John.Buchpnam tried for larceny from-,the peisbfa, and acquitted, .has {ffiblishcd'the follow! ig lines : ' 1 Farewell, Wanganui I a wanderer bids thcc : 7 A lasting good-bye" to thy desolate' shore ; His only* wish, as disgusted lie leaves thee, Is that his sad eyes may behold’ thee no more. Farewell, generation of Pakelia Maoris, Broseu-downsvr addles, and pensioners poor. Go,: bask in. .the arms.of year shock-headed And pray for another outbreak to the war. Farewell to your bridge,, admired by many. ■Beneath whose wide arches such foul water ■ runs, ' ’ Where yovv mean city's freedom is sold for . .a-penny, ? And indolence basks in the warmth of the sun Farewell, Mr Goodal, and all other schemers Whose stagnant society gives one the blues, AAhiosc chief occupation is watching the steamers, * ■ Whose only perplexity’s raising a booze. AVhosc dear heart’s "delight is foi '-handed euchre. ' * ‘ Beelzebub’s pool, or American grab, Blind hookey, cork 100, and twenty-deck poker And learning to live by the gif. of the gab But were I to linger near Iv'cury’s pageants, To ask for a crust or a drink from the well, I’d be collared by He •dcastlc’s kidnapping agents, And lodged by his orders in ik -kcr’s Hotel.