TELEGRAMS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 263, 10 April 1875, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

AUCKLAND. April 3. The Star of the South, from Fiji, reports fearful mortality from measles among tho natives. The natives arc paralyzed and refuse to assist each ot her. All the head chiefs are dead. Three hundred have died on tho island of Ovalau, and on one of the other islands a greater number have succumbed. The disease is always followed by dysentry, and has assumed a form of plague. Several of the native towns are depopulated, at one <>£ which the bodies lay uncovered for days, and were mangled by the pigs, the natives only burying the bodies a few inches below the surface. Tho late ruins have washed the soil off, and the smell is fearful On the island of Anguhu a great many natives are reported lying dead, and no one will bury them. Trade is at a standstill. The Star of the South returns with little . cargo, no one being about to take it out of store and put it on board. The Rewa Sugar Company are erecting machinery. Messrs. Brodejack and Evans have been committed for trial for manslaughter, several natives having died through their neglect. April 6. The Harbor Board has accepted the tender of £3,318 for renewing another jxirtion of the wharf. It was resolved to offer the remainder of the dock debentures in London through the Bank of New Zealand. The City Council has applied to the Superintendent for a grant from the Provincial revenue towards the maintenance of the main streets. GRAHAMBTOWN. April 5. The death of Wi Katene, chief of the Kereweras, is announced. There were 58 deaths registered in the Thames district during the quarter ending April. WELLINGTON. April 6. Dennis Wright, late Captain in tne 107th Regiment, charged with obtaining money on false pretences, was acquitted, but. before leaving Court was arrested on another similar charge, at the suit of W. S. Moorhouse. The work of filling in Thorndon reclamation has seriously commenced. The Post says it is a disgrace to the Governnient that the business of the Resident Magistrate’s Court should have been carried on in its present state, and would not be surprised if those exposed to Llio smell were attacked by fever. The land sales of Wellington province amounted to £91,000. CHRISTCHURCH. April 6. Tbe funeral of J. C. Watts Russell, who was one of tho first settlers, took place yesterday, and was very largely The Superintendent opened the Provincial Council with a very long speech, making a minute review of the progress of the province. Ninety thousand additional acres have been brought into cultivation during the year. Fifty-three addional miles of railway have been opened. At present nearly 113 miles are open, and within the next few months a total of 209 miles will be completed. Over 10,000 immigrants had arrived during the year. The Secretary of Public Works laid a statement on the table to the effect that the rail wavs yielded a. profit of £20,000 during tho past nine mouths. DUNEDIN. April 6. The funeral of the late Judge Wilson Gray took place at. 330 p.m. to-day. The procession, which was very long, started from lhe Government Buildings. The Volunteers and Fire Brigades mustered strong, and n.arlv all the members of tho legal profession were present, including Judges Chapman and Ward. He was universally respected, and died without leaving any enemy. An old Otago miner, writing from Cooktown, Palmer Goldfields, says: Men meditating coming here should reflect well before they start, lhe road to Palmer is dottted with graves of men. A large proportion of Nuw Zealanders, who were strong and able to do the work of horses, have had to succumb to the climate of Northern Queensland. The crops in the Mount Bcnger district have turned out heavier than any previous year, a field of oats reaching as high us seventy bushels to the acre, and, in some instances, u little over eighty.