NEW ZEALAND.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2239, 21 May 1880, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND.

[Pbb “ Times” Special Wise.:! ' A Maori Farm Burned. Napieb, May 21. A threshing machine, owned by Messrs Welford and Hislop, and six stacks of wheat and oats belonging to Maoris were burned ,at Kohupatika near town to-day. The total damage is about £BOO. The machine was insured for £3OO in the JNew Zealand office. Determined Suicide. Henry Hicholls, an old settler, committed suicide at Waipawa yesterday, by shooting himself with a revolver. He had been suffering from the horrors, and, was discharcd from custody two hours before he killed himself. Missing. Henry McDougald, a settler, went to muster sheep a few days ago, His dogs returned without him, and as he has been tracked to thoTubaskuri river, and it is concluded he is drowned, Te Whiti’s Speech. Hawea, May 21. The native accounts of the Parihaka meeting are conflicting as to Pe Whiti’s meaning. Some say he refers to swamps as the impediments to the roads meeting ; those more in the prophet’s confidence say his word has no reference to the road now being made, the word being only used to signify the paths of the two races.

,<••'■' f■. WEIvtINGTOHj May '2L Owing to heavy rains a slip occurred on the ( Wollington-Featberstone railway line yesterday, and communication Was interrupted until this morning. I ,i A telegram lias'bb'eh ‘ received from Parvis to the effect that Te Whiti has issued orders .that; ; whare building by Native's bn the disputed territory is to he discontinued forthwith and .no more undertaken., , f , r , ~y , t Gbrlstchurcli Races. , ° A ' u CiiniSTcriUßCii, May 21., : .wNp-workof importance was done on the course, to-day, Yoltigeur's tips—lloyalty 1, Agent 2, Baron 3, for the Grand. National. .; ~; i A [pedestrian match is on the tapis between: O’Connor and -a Christchurch man-to run ten miles for £IOO aside. Adventures of a Publican. .... ■ ■ ; Dunedin, May 21. y At., the City Police Court, to-day, •John Selkirk Capstick, who had recently been, in business-as a hotelkeeper and had ffjed his schedule. at Wanganui, was charged ;-ppon -a warrant issued at that place with having failed to'deliyer up to the trustee in his estate his bankbook and cash book. Capstick Was remanded to.appear.on the 29th. inst at Wanganui. In .asking .for bail, the prisoner mentioned that his books were destroyed by a fire which burned his premises. Bail was allowed in prisoner’s own . recognisances.-, of, £loo,' and two sureties of £SO each. ,v . t a Spurious Clergyman. Letters received.by Archdeacon Edwards from the' Bishop' of Carlisle and the Bishop of Aberdeen, in reply to inqubjbs addressed, regarding Graves, the quondum clergyman lately convicted of forgery, conclusively prove that the testimonials produced by Graves were [forgeries; He was ordained a deacon in the diocese of Carlisle. Subsequently he committed two crimes at Hbme, and for the second was convicted and imprisoned with hard labor, , ', . An Jmpuilont Thief. . A man named Frybred. has been arrested .on a charge of robbery. He went r oh board the To Anau last evening, representing himself as a night watcbinerl, [and while the passengers were on deck, stole, a quantity of valuable jewellery, . The articles were found in his house by the police.