NEW ZEALAND.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2366, 16 October 1880, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND.

[Per “Times” Special Wire.]

A Step Sown. Auckland Oct. 16. Sub Inspector Pardy, takes a lower grade as Sergeant-Major. A Generous Maori. Hawera, Oct. 15. Hone Pihama, who lately got 1500 acres on the Waimate Plains from the Government, has sent three tons of bread, besides Hour, sugar, etc., to Parihaka. Skeleton Identified. Dunedin, October 16. ""’"The skeleton found at the Upper Owake is believed to be that of Gray, a workman who disappeared four years ago. Another Watt Mistake. Annan and Hood were discharged from custody by Judge Williams because Magistrate Watt had remanded them under the Justice of the Peace Act and

subsequently attended at the gaol snd verbally remanded them under the Distillation Act. They have been since rearrested. A Mad Acta Michael Dongahere, a navvy at Mullocky Gully, inflicted a wound in his abdomen and pulled out his bowels. He is not expected to recover. Death of Judge Mansford. Judge Mansford died early this morning. Excursionists ■ Invercargill, Oct. 16. A large number of excursionists, including several overlanders from Dunedin and Christchurch, joined the Rotorua for the Melbourne Exhibition to-day. Railway Tramps. A batch of the unemployed passed tnrough last night en route for the Orepuki railway works.