TELEGRAMS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1077, 23 May 1882, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

(fbom oub own cohhkspondknts). Auckland, May 20. In one of the city schools 600 children are absent in consequence of the measles, and in another 250. The City Council last evening directed that a letter of sympathy be sent to the Mayor of Timaru. The Council also opened a subscription list for the sufferers by the Timaru disaster. The Mayor headed the list with five guineas; sixteen guineas were contributed in the chamber. The ratepayers of City East by large majorities voted against the increase of publican’s and New Zealand Wine licenses; only one-fifth voted. The Native Minister having ascertained that Pakara and Epiha, the .' two natives who shot at Mr. McWil- | Hams, surveyor, at Ohinetnuri, in | 1879, were at Tawhiao’s meeting at Whatiw hatihoe, instructed Colonel Header to take steps for their arrest, and he directed the Auckland police accordingly. It was ascertained that these natives intended going back to the Upper Thames country through some Waikato settlement. Sergeant McGowan, in charge of the Waikato sub-district, therefore received intstructious to effect their arrest at ail hazards. He placed sentries on all the roads, but instead of coming through Hamilton or Cambridge as was expected, they went down the Waipa tn a canoe, after staying a night at William Barton's settlement. Hearing that they were at a settlement below- Barton’s, Sergeant McGowen took ten constables in a steamer up to the settlement, and, after a des|terate hand-to-hand struggle with about thirty natives, captured Pakara and Epiha without bloodshed, and they were taken to Hamilton. There being some doubt as to the identity of Epiha, Mr. Bush, R.M., telegraphed for persons to identify him, and when they arrive at Hamilton, rhe offenders will be brought on to Auckland. W Ellington, May 20. The steamer Jane Douglas, which left here for Foxton, struck something hard when off an island iu Bavan Bav, and as the vessel was making waier, she returned to ]x>rt and was placid on the slip, when it was ascertained that there was a small hole in a plate in the fore part of the engine-room. There were also small dents. It is believed that it was a floating substance which star®Tuck. The damage has been repai*^ 7 / Timaru, May 20. The chief officer of the wrecked vessel City of Perth, 8. Blacklock, who had his legs smashed on board that vessel on Sunday morning, died in the hospital this morning. His right leg had been amputated, hut erysipelas set in, which caused death. May 22. An extraordinary general meeting of shareholders in the South British J nsurance Company was held on Saturday. The meeting confirmed a resolution passed on the 10th of April for | the purtrose of enlarging the powers of directors with regard to investments. Mav 22. Messrs Stout and Wynn Williams have drafied the Stanmore Election Indemnity Bill which is to be introduced by Mr Turnbull to-morrow to relieve Mr Pilliett from penalties enable him to stand again for the representati on ofjthat seat. Invercaiigill, May 22. The County Solicitor informed the Southland Council that no provision j having been made in the New Licens- I ing Act for billiard and bagatelle I licenses, therefore no license fees could be charged to keepers of billiard aud bagatelle tables.