LAST NIGHT’S WIRES.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1360, 25 September 1883, Page 3

LAST NIGHT’S WIRES.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT). RESIGNATION OF THE j PREMIER, 1 ■ i ■* Majob Atkinson entbusted with i < THE FoBJIATION OE A CABINET. WELLINGTON. Owing to private business requiring his attention, the Hon. F. Whitaker, Premier, on Saturday morning placed hia resignation in the hands of His Excellency the Governor. His Excellency sent for the Hon. Major Atkinson, and entrusted him with the formation of a Cabinet. Major Atkinson expected to have been able to submit the names of his proposed colleagues to His Excellency on Monday, but up to half-past three in the afternoon had not done so. The Hon. F. Whitaker left for Auckland on Monday morning in the Hinemoa. DUNEDIN. At the City Court, Thomas Ireland, for assaulting Albert Cohen, a reporter on the f Danedin Star, was fined 40s and costs (£3 6s), with the alternative of seven day’s imprisonment. The affair arose out of a paragraph recently published having reference to the horse-whipping case, but all the evidence as to this was excluded by the Bench. The criminal calendar of the Supreme Court is very light, there being only seven cases. AUCKLAND. A fire, supposed to have occurred through a defective chimney, destroyed the Presbyterian Manse at Te Awainutu. The furniture was saved. Insurance on the building, £250 in the South British office. The loss is £lOO over that amount. On Saturday night, Allen’s drapery store, and the premises of Williams, tailor, in Victoria street, were burned down. Atkinson's jewellery shop, and Cahill’s drapery mart were considerably damaged. The goods were saved from all but Allen’s shop. A candle left on the counter while Allen was turning off the gas at the meter, ignited some light l material, causing the conflagration. A native difficulty arising from the • ' judgment given by the Native Land Court, I occurred at Waotu, rfaikato. Piripi, a chief of the Ngatingaronga, being unable to get a rehearing of his case, and having failed to influence the authorities by a visit to Wellington, has taken the law into his own hands, and with a party of men blocked np the road by felling trees across it. The natives to whom the lands were adjudged, though a stronger party, have appealed to the law. Mr Bryce has telegraphed that the dispute must be settled by appeal to common law. At the District Court this morning, the owner of the monkey that attacked a young child at Mechanics’ Bay, was cast in damaces to the amount of £25. with costs £8 19s. Particulars of the wreck of the cutter Rangitata, on the Great Barrier, on Sept. 5, -a shows that two of the crew died of exposure. * A young man named Thos. McDonald rescued a woman named Goodson, and her child, yesterday, from drowning at the harbor reclamation.

Another eaee of measles has broken out amongst the Doric passengers nt the quarantine station. The Government have pftbl E 10,000 to the Bay of Islands natives for blocks of land. A boarding ’ e ise on Tant a Fh(, occupied by E. Williams, was destroyed by fire on Sunday morning under suspicious circumstances. The inmates, numbering fourteen, principally navvies, being aroused they found the doors carefully fastened and they could only be opened by violent means, they therefore, escaped by means of the chimney. Nothing was saved. The detectives arc investigating the matter. NAPIER. The general entries for the Hawke’s Bay Guineas and Handicap, Hurdles, Spring Handicap, and Flying Handicap, must be in the hands of the secretary not later than 8 p.m., on Tuesday September 25th, WANGANUI. Mete Kingi, a well-known chief, and a former died on Saturday, from hernia, it is believed. About seventy applications were made to the Government, on behalf of the family, tor a public funeral.