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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1234, 28 December 1882, Page 2

Last Tuesday night, at Matawhero, a free fightwas held between a portion of the gatiporous and a section of the Turanganui natives called Ngai to Kete hapu, A large number of men and women, many of them in a semi-state of nudi'-y, were lighting for some considerable period, until one or two of the assailants were left //or** cte co.nbat.

As is customary, evidently, this season of the year, when we are visited by a number of Ngatiporous, who come down in large numbers (upwards of two hundred men, grass cutters), that the police have their hands full. The poor fellow, who was so brutally scalded at Waerenga-a-hika, is a Ngiitiporou. He has laid an information against the offender, who will be dealt with by Air Price, doubtless as lie deserves. We hear of several cases of petty larceny, and no doubt before our visitors from the Coast leave, we shall hear of several more. We recommend all persons having horses to keep them in some secure place. We know already of one gentleman having Jost his horse in a mysterious manner, and it cannot be found. The settling night for the Waerenga-a-hika

Boxing Day Race Meeting has been arranged for Friday night. The only question of importance is whether the disclaimer of Mr Bloomfield regarding the Handicap should be entertained. As the matter is in a measure .sub jiidice, we refrain from making further remarks. The protest entered by Mr G. Burnand, the owner of Director, against Wild Dayrell’s wdn in the Handicap Hurdles h is been withdrawn, and no doubt, according to racing rules, very wisely. Mr Staples who has for nearly four years been connected with the Postal ami Telegraphic Department, is about to leave for Nelson. During his term of office here he has been invariably courteous and obliging, and the office in losing him loses a thoroughly good and efficient officer. Mr Staples we hear intends to seek that quietude that a farm imparts, and will for ever forego the click, click, click of the telegraphic apparatus. In whatever line of life he may in future adopt we wish him all happiness, and beg sincerely to thank him for many kindnesses shown and for which we shall ever feel deeply indebted. A telegram from Tunis states that the insurgent Arabs have succeeded in recrossing the marsh lakes, and have effected several razzias in the extreme south of the Regency. One band has attacked a French outpost, wounding several soldiers. The reports of the military authorities in the south express anxiety as to the attitude of the Arabs. The question of the Capitulations unceasingly occupies public attention. At Sfax the French Consul has granted, indiscriminately, French passports to the Tunisian Jews ; and the British Consular Agent at ' Peja reports that the governor has ordered i all disputes concerning British subjects to be ' henceforth treated by the French Bureaux. , lhese facts tend to credit the serni-officiai 1 announcement recently made on the subject. |