TELEGRAMS TO THE “MAIL.”

Patea Mail, 19 May 1882, Page 3

TELEGRAMS TO THE “MAIL.”

(•PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.)

Sticking-up at Christchurch.

Christchurch.-—Mr -Nelson, of the firm of Nelson, Monte, and Co., was stuck up on the East Belt at half-past eleven, on Tuesday night by three men, who spaang upon him from a hedge and knocked him down. ; His clothes were considerably; torn in the scuffle and through the attempts i to rifle'him, but he made a vigorous resistance, and the noise he kicked up i eventually frightened his assailants off. : The police searched the neighbourhood for some hours, but, in vain. Sad Drowning Case. Nelspn.—Newshas been received here; that Richard ? Shields,..one: ; of ..the .oldest; diggers on the West Coast, and first dis-; . criverer'of reefs in theTnangahua district,: has been drowned.while crossing- the Ma-j takatiki at Hampden. He was crossing; with James ..Clinton, settler, both being on horseback, when Shields’s animal bucked in midstream, and bothmen were thrown. Clinton managed to get ashore, but Shields, was- carried down into the Buller river and drowned..- .His body was recovered on Saturday night,a few hours .after the accident. - - . End of the King MeetingAlexandra, XBth. — After Ta«-hiao’s speech, the matter of,,a' Maori printing,; press was introduced by .Wahaiiui, Paul; Tuliaere said he bad collected £25 towards the , object, Rewi followed, saying be bad already given £8 towards it. . , The meeting concluded with a haka, which signified that the proceedings were; at an' end. The; natives are now leayirigj for'their.. homes.

The Wakatu arrived to day, ! and sails to morrow for Nelson and Wellington, returning by V’Wanganui if trade offers. The p, s.. Lyttelton has not ventured out of Wanganni, where she is bar-hound ; the Clyde also.