TELEGRAMS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 931, 2 April 1881, Page 5

TELEGRAMS.

(from our own correspondent). Wellington, March 31. The financial year closed to-day. The Property Tax stills comes in well, and it is expected that tho amount collected up to this evening, for the whole Colony, will be nearly if not quite £230,000. Intelligence from the Constabulary camp reports that the Natives are carting their produce off the disputed ground seaward of the road through the Parihaka block, aud taking it to Parihaka; this is anticipated as a final abandonment of resistance to the occupation of that piece of land. Christchurch, March 30. A fire occurred last night, at Cunningham an Coy’s building, at the corner of Manchester and Lichfieldstreets It commenced in the occupied part of the premises; the origin is unknown. Ths damage is about £lOOO, fully covered by insurances in the London, Liverpool, Globe, South British, and National offices. Auckland, March 30. New quartz has been found at Kaimai, about 21 miles from Tauranga. At a meeting of the Waste Lands Board, an application was received from David Dignan asking permission to assign his interest in a deferred payment selection at Poverty Bay, to Francis Saunders. Mr. Firth pointed out that the granting of this application would lead to abuses, and moved that the transfer be not allowed. The request was refused. An application from Piesse and Ratcliffe to have the classification of lands at Patutahi altered from rural to pastoral was refused.