SPECIAL TELEGRAMS

Patea Mail, 2 November 1880, Page 3

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS

RECEIVED LAST NIGHT.

NATIVES STOPPING THE ROAD. Wellington, Monday. Information received by the Government to-day from Parihaka states that yesterday about 50 natives, nearly ail men. came to the camp to fence early in the morning, bringing stakes and branches, a few of which they stuck in the ground, the remainder being thrown across the road. They then retired. This morning two armed constabulary men who were going from the camp to Opunaki on leave were stopped by about thirty natives at a place called Parapara, where they had erected a fence across the road. The constables were not allowed to proceed, and had to go round by the beach. INSOLVENTS IN WELLINGTON. Monday Night. During the past month seventeen persons filed declarations of insolvency in Wellington, and things every day are growing worse. DR LEMON’S RESIGNATION, AYellington, Monday. I have it on the best authority that Dr Lemon sent in his resignation when he was ordered to remove his office to Government buildings, but afterwards asked to be allowed to withdraw it. I believe the Premier found it absolutely necessary to take the Doctor more closely under his personal supervision. MASSACRE BY FIJIANS. Auckland, Monday. The crew ot the Auckland brigantine Borealis were massacred at a Fiji island named Urn on tbe 18th September, the

ship being attacked by nearly 100 natives while the captain and three of the crew were on shore “ recruiting.” Whether recruiting means kidnapping is not clear, but the natives resent it. Every person on the ship was killed except the steward, who hid himself in a cabin. The captain returned to the ship, and finding it in possession of the natives, took the small boat to Sua bay, 4G miles off, where he obtained assistance from two English ships. When they again boarded the brigantine, there wore evidences of slaughter in all directions. The natives all escaped, except two.