TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1945, 19 September 1889, Page 1

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

The return for Bis days’ dredging by the Welman dredge at Waipapa, Otago, is 112ozs amalgam. A more powerful pump is to be used, so as to permit of a larger quantity being treated, and the electric light is to be provided to allow of the dredge working night and day. Kohimo Hainigariri reperted to the Auckland police that over twenty Mahurangi natives attacked him on Saturday and carried off his daughter, aged nineteen, who was stripped naked in the struggle. The only reason they gave was that the girl had spoken a bad word about some of their tribe, having reference to some superstition. A dozen police were despatched on Monday afternoon to arrest the ringleaders. They arrived at Waiwera at half-past seven on Monday night, and proceeded to the Maori settlement a mile and a half inland. Here the police entered a whare where they found about thirty natives assembled, including the girl who had been carried off and her abductors. The Maoris; were holding a “korero.” The chief of the settlement, Te Hemapu is a Native Assessor, and after argument he pointed out the natives named in the warrant. The four men and a young woman were thereupon arrested, and with the girl and her father were taken to Auckland. The prisoners were charged at the Police Court with having assaulted the girl, Mere Hainigariai, and forcibly abducted her, and with having assaulted her father. The evidence of Mere was heard, and the case was then remanded for a week. The prisoners were released on bail.

The adjourned inquest at Napier on the body of the new-born child of Mary Kyle was held on Monday, when a verdict equivalent to manslaughter was returned, and she was committed for trial on that charge. In the course of the inquiry one witness said “Mrs Kyle told me the father was a constable,” S>he was stopped before the name was mentioned. At a later stage the Inspector asked that the witness should be asked to state the name, so that the stigma should not rest on the whole police force, but counsel for Mrs Kyle objected, and the coroner found that it was not relevant to the inquiry, The Wesleyan Church members at Nelson on Monday resolved to affirm the desirability that the Wesleyan Church in New Zealand should have a separate conference independent of Australia. They have also resolved to invite the Rev. P. Isitt, of Invercargill, to take charge of the Nelson circuit next year, the term of the Rev. W. C. Oliver expiring. His Excellency the Governor lays the foundation stone of the new Wesleyan Church on the 24th inst. Two writs have been issued from the Wellington Supreme Court at the instance ©f Mr John Mynott, of Taranaki, against the proprietor of the Taranaki Herald and P. P. Corhill, Deputy Official Assignee at New Plymouth, claiming £SOO damages from each defendant. The cause of the action is the publication of an. “ apology ” which was lately read by Mr Samuel, M.H.R., in the House of Representatives, signed by a man named John Hooper, and containing reflections upon Mr Mynott for the way in which signatures were obtained to a petition to the House, calling in question the Deputy Assignee’s conduct.

A carpenter named Eoberts, who was working on the roof of the Sunnyside Asylum on Monday was descending a creeping ladder, when it ran off the roof, precipitating him to the ground, a distance of forty feet, Eoberts sustained a fracture of the left forearm and right thigh, besides internal injuries, the nature of which has not yet been ascertained. The sufferer is doing as well as possible under the circumstances.