SPECIAL TELEGRAMS

Patea Mail, 14 October 1880, Page 3

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS

RECEIVED LAST NIGHT. CLOSING PORTS. OF ENTRY. , Wellington,' Wednesday. At a Cabinet meeting last night, it was decided to close the five following ports of entry :• —Poxton, Whangarci, Tamanga, Kaikonra, and Havelock. Each place will have a bonded warehouse, and the owner of the bond shall give security for his acts. By this movement the Government makes a saving of £4,000 per annum.

HARD CASES. Wellington, Wednesday. The Cabinet also decided to give the dismissed police inspectors the option of continuing in the service at a lower grade or in the ranks. This will materially abate the hardship which otherwise would have been inflicted on some efficient officers. ;

MORE SAVING. Wellington, Wednesday, The Marino and Customs Departments are to be amalgamated, as they, were before the Grey Ministry. The amalgamation will bo a saving of several thousand pounds per annum.

FENCING STOPPED. Wellington, Wednesday. The fencers at Parihaka are tired out. Not one appeared to-day. “ Sic transit,” &c.;

MUNITIONS OF WAR. Wellington, Wednesday. Ten -tons of powder and 182 tons'of shot and shell intended to be lauded at Opunake, have been landed at Wellington instead. This indicates peace and plenty in the land of Israel.

MR HANSFORD. Wellington, Wednesday, Mr Mansford, R.M., who received his year’s leave of .absence, was a passenger to-day by the Hawea to Dunedin, where an operation may be performed on his throat. I wonder if ho will meet with any more auctioneers’ test cases, and treat them so lightly as he did McDonald, who defied the law and only got fined £5. Mr G. B. Davy has been appointed in Mr Mansford’s stead until he returns from England.

ESCAPED LUNATIC. Wellington, Wednesday. One of the inmates of the Asylum, named Patrick Walsh, escaped on Monday, and lias not since been heard of.

-INWARD MAIL. Wellington, Wednesday. The Suez mail will arrive in Wellington to-night per Wanaka.

PENSIONERS’ PETITION. . Wellington, Wednesday. The Imperial pensioners in Wellington and other places arc getting up a monster petition to,.,the Horse Guards against retrenchment affecting their pensions in so far that they demand gold or silver m accordance with instructions from the Duke of Cambridge in 1852.