LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 153, 12 January 1871, Page 5

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

inquest Was held upon the body of |^Oh- Chong, *on Thursday last, when a x. «||fi* c * Qf accidental death was returned, j^SHiy'ider to this effect —That in similar MkTftselSij^dejits, Chinamen should send ' imniedi|My or medical aid, and not trust to^ ie i r own superstitious advice, as i they hrn done on the occasion of A,h Ohong's accident.

The immigrants by the Zealandia, from London, which arrived at Lyttelton a fortnight since, soon found engagements. The " Canterbury Times " writes respectin? them:— "ln a short time all the single women were engaged at wages ranging L2O to L3O per annum. The single men, with the exception of a few, who entertained rather extravagant notions cf colonial wages, were found situations at wages ranging from L 35 to L 45 per annum and found. Of the thirty families only ten remained for engagement at the end of the day. The wages for the latter ranged from LSO to L6oper annum. The Immigration Officer informs us that had there been double the number of single women and single men (farm labourers), they could have all been placed in situations at the wages -above quoted.

At the Waste Land Board meeting, held on Wednesday, the 4th inst., applications to purchase the following lands held by the respective applicants under agricultural lease were granted : — Mr. Thomas G randy, sections 1, 2, 3, 4, block JQjy*W»*taliuna W. Mr. 'fully, section X., Tuapeka E. J. Dewe, secHi 5, block VII., Table Hill. J. Chalsection 12, block V., Tuapeka E. section 22, block X., WaitaJ- Stenhouse, section 113, E. rrow the Chinese have turned he river, aud are reported to y well. ioned claim on the river bank and Cromwell, has recently by some miners, who have Hgi rewarded for their enterprise by Lls per man per week out

papers mention that a cask Zealand honey hasbgen (BBBH^ltHHi^t)o3^e?Tswtr* ' Harvesting operations have commenced at the East Taieri, on the.farm of Mr. James Cullen, Owhiro, being the first on I lie plain. About four acres of oats— a ood crop — have been cut. ■ " The Man that pays the Piper " writes s follows to the " Daily Times " :— " Mr '"ogel arrived in Victoria some 18 years bju, a youth of between 18 and 19 years oft. He has resided there and in New Naland ever since. His experience of (fiance is therefore purely colonial and ivnfined to his own limited sphers, \V hat ■}pc, therefore, is there th<it this neophyte a. financial affairs will be able to accom-

.pi ih that which the .New Zealand Com- ', m - 3_ioners appear to have shirked \ N one. ' V t Mr. Yogel is permitted by Ms pliant ,co leagues to tax the country at the rate \>i five guineas a day, and travelling exMtenses for MmselJ: (anil, I suppose, his Hjrivate secretary), on a mere pleasure Bp, That there is any hope of his success the loan on the market, is so it would have been decent to have awaited the return of his before hurrying away. Perfeared the result of their delibN th&t he. might thereby lose HHfturn,*fr> r a * c SuK'?- c+'^e expense (k the colony. Of course where the pleasure of great men, or the vanity of little men, is concerned, expense is no object. V Fr<ini an Adelaide telegram we learn Sps! splendid crops are being gathered in. „„ is expected that two-hundred thousand tons surplus will be available for sMpment. A proposal has been made to the Sydney Government to establish a mail serveco between Sydney and California, calling only at Fiji. Mr Macandrew's address appeared in the " Evening Star " last week, but has been unaccountably withdrawn. Mary Ann Malumby, a cliilcl eight and a half years of age, was diabolically murdered in a house in Sewell street, between 10 and 11 o'clock p.m., on Saturday last, at Hokitika, Her parents were out at the time. On returning home they missed the child, whose body was subsequently found at the back of the house, with the skull fractured, anil also bearing

• seveml tomahawk wound 3. The child ■jtoTci also been violated. Anthony Noble, man, who recently served two in gaol for a brutal assault on a was arrested this morning on a of having committed the murder. found near the body was PHBfied as his^ and his clothes were b!oodsfasffle,d when he was arrested. Two younger cMKfreu were sleeping in the =[aine" house at \he time of the murder. ■\\ r e are informed that telegrams for all

jtetegraph Stations in the Province of £ Auckland, can now be sent daily (Sundays * excepled) by way of Tauranga, up till 4 p.m.' They will be telegraphed to Tauranga, and sent from there by mailman ' to the Thames, whence they will be tele-

graphed to their destination. Telegrams go sent must bear in addition to the usual a-drtvess, t)*e words " via Tauranga." Ne^pof the sth inst,, from Auckland, via \\Manganui, states that reports are current of internal quarrels among the Hauhaus, and the Waikato settlers have ►■been warned to guard against surprise. The "Herald's" Cambridge correspondent says that it is the general opinion that we are on the verge of a war with the Maoris ; also, that Te Kooti is urging _a massacre of the Europeans. The following domestic announcement appeared in the Wellington " Evening Post" of the 9th ult, :— ''On the Bth inst. , the wife of Mr. Thomas llitson, of a daughter. (21st child)." Tn the Supreme Court on Saturday last the case of the Great Extended Sluicing Company (Registered) v. Hales and Another was" adjourned by consent sine die. His Honour, who purposes, we ' "understand, to leave for Wellington by the Lord Ashley, mentioned that he would sit in Chambers on Tuesday moming, and should probably be absent but a short time, as there was little business for the Court of Appeal, A gooseberry^sbw took place at Wellington a few clays ago. The.* biggest gooseberry weighed 10£dwts. 1 -