LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1202, 15 November 1882, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[PHR VNITED PRESS WELLINGTON, This Day. The election of Mayor takes place on the 22nd inst. The present Mayor, Mr George Fisher, offers himself for re-election, and as yet there is nobody mentioned to oppose him. The members of the Royal Commission on the South Island Trunk Railway Route have decided to travel over all rival routes, and to inspect them personally with the utmost thoroughness before taking any oral evidence on the subject. They are now-going over the ground in Marlborough and North Canterbury, and on completing their personal ocular examination, they will commence taking evidence in Christchurch. The rainfall this week has not increased i the quantity of water in the City Reservoir, ! and unless we are favored with a heavy down- ! pour this week the supply to householders | will have to be considerably ourtalled,

A supplementary Gazette issued to-day . fixes the revised scale of freights on the N.Z. Railways, which ar® to come into force on | the 11th proximo. The passenger fares do not appear as yet to be altered. AUCKLAND, This day. A rumor is current at Te Awamutu that George Savage, Mr Tole’s servant, who was supposed to have been accidentally drowned in Puniu on the sth inst. was murdered by a Native named Pukekura. It appears that a Native named Maniapoto stated in an hotel at Kihikihi, on the 13th inst., to a lad named Benjamin Ward, that Pukekura had killed Savage, and threw him into the river. This statement reached the ears of Constable I Gillies (the man who arranged Winiat-a’s arrest, and captured I’akara and Epiha), and he brought M ard and MaiiiapotO together, when the latter denied all knowledge, as Pukekura is now in the Native country, but the police believe the story deserves credence. The prizes distributed in the Devonport Regatta amounted to £320, Wahanui, feeling the heavy responsibility which he had been taking upon himself at the recent meeting, when he assumed the

whole burden of Kingism, and also the power and right to stop the tide of settlement if it so pleased him, has called a inteting of the most promising chiefs Who elected the first king, Potatau. Potatau was elected by all the great chiefs of the southern portion of the North Island since the war. A large number of the tribes who concurred in the election have seceded and sold their lands, such as the Ngatiiikina, the Taupo and Wanganui Natives. Wahanui, however, has decided to bring together as many as possible of chiefs and their representatives who took part in the election, and it is surmised he means to point one that they have deserted the king, and to say that if an arrangement is to be made with Europeans, it had better be done with the con» sent, and at the. instance of all those who concurred in the election of Potatau.

Yesternight information was given to the Police that Henry Geddes Hunter, whose wife is a boarding-house keeper, attempted suicide by taking phosphorus. The police found a man lying on the verandah, phosphorus shining on his lips and fingers, while there was a severe gash on the top of the head. Emetics were applied and he vomited freely. It subsequently transpired that Hunter had an altercation with his wife, who struck him over the head with a chair leg, and there Is reason to believe that he smeared his face with phosphorus to make her believe he committed snicidc.

J. T, McKeller, of London, who has al ready presented several thousand pounds worth of works of art to the Auckland Museum, purchased several art treasures at the Duke of Hamilton’s sale, and has sent them to Auckland in the ships Loch Urr and Loch Fleet. The list comprises two pictures by Guido Rene, one by Stanfield; besides a collection of Roman glass, iriarfele, and antique articles found in recent explorations.