SPECIAL TELEGRAMS

Patea Mail, 22 February 1881, Page 3

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS

RECEIVED LAST NIGHT. EMBEZZLING LAND REVENUE. (Telegram Jrom our Correspondent.) New Plymouth, Monday. At the Land Hoard to-day it was resolved to notify to all holders of deferred payment lands, the instalments upon which are overdue, to show cause why the land should not be forfeited. This course was deemed necessary owing to alleged defalcations in the accounts of the receiver of land revenue at Hawera ; and it will be the means of finding out the full amount of money alleged to have been embezzled. WELLINGTON GOSSIP. Monday Night. The Terawhiti goldfield excitement increases. About 40 men assembled round McLean’s auction mart to-day for jobs. No one was looking for shares. Great excitement among the unwashed. Disgraceful scenes of pugilistic encounters take place nightly between civil servants and larrikins on the reclaimed land. Mr Crawford, the Magistrate, returned to this city from England after an absence of 18 months. Nobody met him at the wharf with drum and fife. The senate of the New Zealand University has decided that we shall have no more articled clerks. Every aspirant to a solicitorship must pass through a curriculum of education like English barristers. This is severe on the wouldbe legal cubs. The Chief Justice of New Zealand, though not knowing the right end of a musket, has given a silver cup to volunteers to shoot for.