SPECIAL TELEGRAMS

Patea Mail, 14 September 1880, Page 2

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS

RECEIVED LAST NIGHT. f From our Coresjwndents.] BAILIFF and the GOVERNMENT. Ashburton, Monday. The Government having failed to pay rent for using the Good Templar Hall as a Court-house, a bailiff was put in possession of Court properties on Saturday. The difficulty arose through a round-about method of keeping accounts, and the off-hand style in which the company’s claim was treated. They have had their revenge. LOVE AND REVENGE. Wellington, Monday. A strange case of drowning occurred here on Sunday evening. John Wood Lunt, a native of Liverpool, was picked out of the water near the wharf. An inquest has been held on the body, and two love letters from a barmaid at the Star Hotel were found. Verdict of temporary insanity. REDUCED FARE TO EUROPE* Auckland, Monday. The Pacific Mail Company notify a reduction of saloon fare to Europe, the price to be L 67. GOLD MINING. Reefton, Monday. The Keop-it-Dark claim at Ileelton crushed 216 tons, yielding 150 ounces amalgam. United Alpine, at Lyell, 145 tons yielded 357 ounces amalgam. GOING TO PARIHAKA* Wellington, Monday. It is reported that the remainder of the Wi Kingis have started for Parihaka. They are only 30 strong. Their leader, William King, will be carried on a stretcher. This daring old chief is the veritable being who did so much damage and dared the British flag at Waitara in former days. MAILS. Wellington, Monday. The City of New York, with London mails, left San Francisco on the 28th ult. The Zealandia, with August Colonial mails, arrived at San Francisco on the Bth hist. BURNED TO DEATH. Christchurch, Monday. Last evening a cottage at the Asylum was accidentally burned, and two children perished therein. OUTWARD SHIP. Dunedin, Monday. The ship Dunedin from Glasgow to Dunedin, with 214 nominated immigrants, sailed on the 3rd instant. NATIVES AND LAND JOBBING. Wellington, Monday Night. All the natives who own land up the Wanganui river have assigned it over in trust to Major Kemp. A conference of natives was hold at which 600 were present. Te Pune, chief of the Upper Wanganui, was also there. FOOTBALL. Auckland, Monday. A football match between the Wellington and Auckland teams was played here on Saturday. The Auckland team won. A banquet was given, at which speeches were made, and good-will prevailed. SHIPS ARRIVED. Wellington, Monday, The fine ship Waimea was towed into port on Saturday night, with only a few passengers. The Stirlingshire, from Glasgow with pipes for the Wainui-Omata waterworks, also arrived here yesterday.

In Wellington, the fashionable drink is whisky and lime-juice. In Sydney, beer and syrup is the “ fancy drink,” A waiter at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York, has often 500 hats under his charge at one time. Yet even a momentary hesitation in selecting the right hat rarely occurs. He says he forms a mental picture of the owner’s face inside the hat, and that on looking at any hat the wearer’s face is instantly brought before his mind’s eye.