SPECIAL TELEGRAMS

Patea Mail, 23 September 1880, Page 2

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS

RECEIVED LAST NIGHT.

NATIVE OBSTRUCTION. TE KOOTES INTERFERENCE. Auckland, King natives at the Waikato are interrupting Major Jackson’s Horonora purchase. . Fifty Haubaus assembled, and threatened to carry the horses and ploughs to the King country. The northern natives are obstructing the West Coast road, and threaten to pull down all bridges. Te Kooti’s agents arc instigating them. EVIDENCE IN BANKRUPTCY. Dunedin, Wednesday. Mr Justice Williams is doubtful whether the evidence taken before a trustee in bankruptcy is admissible. COLLISION CLAIM. Auckland, Wednesday. The Harbor Board are claiming com- '» pensatiou from the agent of the San ■ Francisco steamers for collision and damages. A LIVING MOAInvercargill, Wednesday. It is reported that a party of diggers had seen a live moa at the river Waiau. It stood nine feet, and ran away on. approach, uttering a noise like a locomotive. A FIGHTING BANKRUPT. New Plymouth, Wednesday. Henry Revell, a bankrupt, at a meeting of creditors yesterday, offered to fight any one of his creditors for a small consideration. Challenge not accepted. TARANAKI RACING. New Plymouth, Wednesday. The programme of the Taranaki Jockey Club fixes the race meeting for the 31st March and Ist April. First day: Maiden Plate, £SO; Steeplechase, £80; Taranaki Jockey Club Handicap, £3OO ;■ Hack Race, £2O ; Taranaki Cnp, £SO. Second day: Handicap Hurdles, £SO; Hack Hurdles, £2O ; Autumn Handicap, £120; Ladies Purse, £4O ; County Handicap, £SO ; Consolation, £3O. Total amount, £BIO. Entries for the Taranaki Derby, 1884, and Champagne Stakes, close on April 7th, 1881. WOMAN AND CHILD BURNED TO DEATH. Hokitika, Wednesday. A man named Hutchison, with wife and 6 children, lived in a hut at Tucker Flat, near Kauieri. He went home late the other night, his wife being asleep on a stretcher, with a baby in cradle nearHe went to bed, and the cottage took fire in the night. He throw five children out of the window and saved them, but the mother and infant were burned to death. Neighbors consider the affair is not satisfactorily explained. MORE FENCING. New Plymouth, Wednesday. Among the fencers to-day on the Plains was Malm, a well-known Waitara chief. They desisted at the appearance of the Constabulary. The whole is a gigantic farce. RECEIVING THE GOVERNOR. Wellington, Wednesday. The whole of the Friendly Societies of Wclliegton are co-operating to give Sir Arthur Gordon a public reception. Guns are to be fired and church bells run". FOUND DROWNED. Wellington, Wednesday. Another dead body fished out of the harbour yesterday 7. At the inquest the body was not identified. Verdict, found drowned.