CABLE NEWS
Reuter's Despatches to Patea Daily Mail This Day. RAID on SECRET SOCIETY. London, 10th.—Dublin police captured 15 marauders belonging a secret society which had projected the wholesale murder of farmers who continue to pay rent. The leader had turned informer. Wreck Inquiry. Sydney, this day.—lnquiry into the wreck of the steamship,.Wotouga,. at Port Macquarie, has been opened here before the Marine Board. Evidence of the captain and mate has been taken, but not yet been published, as it is of a conflicting nature. The inquiry stands adjourned to Monday next.
London, 10th.—At recent Cabinet meetings Ministers have had under consideration measures to be proposed next session for reform in the procedure of the House of Commons, and it is further known that at to-day’s meeting of the Cabinet it was finally decided to propose the adoption of the cloture, when same shall be demanded by a simple majority of the House.
The Chairman of the Taranaki County Council says that subsidies to the amount of £3OOO have been kept back from the County for the maintenance of Hospital and charitable aid. The Taranaki County Council has agreed to pay 10s 6d a day to members attending. In reference to the proposed Native Land Court at Mokau, Mr Bryce has telegraphed to Mr T. Kelly, New Plymouth, that “ Both Tawhiao and Rewi protest strongly against a Court being held at present in respect of Mokau lands, and in such circumstances it would be worse than useless to force it oh.”
Mr Grant, one of the Lincolnshire delegates who visited New Zealand some time ago, has “ swopped ” his twothousand acre farm in England for the ten-thousand acre sheep run of Mr Tooth in Canterbury.
Count Von Moltke, Field Marshal General of the German army, has resigned as chief of the Imperial Staff, his advanced age, 81 years, being assigned as the sole cause.
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Patea Mail, 12 January 1882, Page 3
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