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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 142, 24 April 1879, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAPHIC

(PER PRESS AGENCY.) WELLINGTON. Wednesday. The cook of the Clan Campbell swore in Court to-day that the men were supplied on the voyage wi th flour full of rat's dung and other offensive matter, while the potatoes smelt horribly, ;and were not fit food for pigs. The men intend proceeding against the captain. Government has promised to advance one thousand pounds to the Westland Education Board for building purposes, An information has been laid against tho captain of the Tairoa for overcrowding. Urcy and Shcehaii left this afternoon for the Bay of Islands, eu route to the Maori meeting, The telegram annoimcing Vogel's resignation of the Agent-Generalship turns out to have been concocted,

The statement filed by E. J. Duncan, shows the Mowing liabilities Secured, £10,738 ; unsecured, £B,l92—total, £18,930, Assets: Debts owing, £1,987; do. doubtful, £2,402, taken as £500; property, encumbered, £8,430; do, unencumbered, £430, Deficiency, £5,592. The debtor accounts for this deficiency as follows: Bad debts, £4,439 j; doubtful debts, £2,502; loss on Now Zealauder newspaper shares, £175, making a total loss of £G,GIG. • AUCKLAND. Tuesday.

A representative billiard match between the North, represented by an Auckland gentleman, and a Southern gentleman, 500 up, \wb playod to-day. There was a large attendance.. The Auckland man ran out when his rival had made 452. The Auckland representative has since been challenged by another Southern man. A seaman on board the Bonito while assisting to ship timber to-night, a log rolled on his left foot, crushing it severely, Ho was taken to the hospital. The Ngaruawahia Eoad Board, who have adopted the system of forfeiting lands for which no rates have been paid, held their first sale to-day, when land to the value of £750 was sold.

At a sitting of the Otahulm Court to-day, 'while hearing a case of allowing cattle to stray, I!. C. Baratow, K.M., of Auckland, expressed an opinion that the authorities of small towns'and villages should appoint a ranger and allow cattle to graze on the roads from sunrise to sunset, and that the present system of seizing cattle should be done away with. TAURANGA. Tuesday.

Mr George Ellis, of Napier, who is at pre sent on a visit here, has offered Messrs Gouk and Henderson £6OO to be permitted to " stand in " with them in the Taupo contract. This was refused, though Mr Ellis guaranteed to get the Taupo off for a quarter of the tender, and without any of the elaborate paraphernalia of schooners, etc., being brought from Auckland. He says there is no real difficulty in the matter, and that Messrs Gouk and Henderson ought to make an uncommonly good thins out of the contract. GRAHAMSTOWN. Tuesday,

Great preparations are being raado by the Thames and Ohiuemntu natives for the Waikato King meeting, which commences on Saturday. A large cavalcade of natives leave here and Ohinemuti to-morrow for the King country, to be present. Sir Georgo Grey and Mr Sheehan are expected there on Sunday. NEW PLYMOUTH. Tuesday. Te Whiti lias ordered the settlers and constables to leave Opunake, and Mackio and Blake's negotiations have not yet concluded successfully.

The New Plymouth waterworks scheme has collapsed. The Borough tried to raise a loan for the purpose, and failed, Tenders were then invited for the works, with the understanding that payment would bo made by debenture. The time for sending in tenders expired yesterday, and no tenders were sent in, i

Wednesday.

.. Eight dray loads of preserved provisions received some time since by steamer, wero conveyed by the natives to Parihaka. Mr Sherwood, of Carlyle, who lias just arrived by the mountain road, reports that a Maori has ordered the surveyors .off the lands abutting on the eastern part of the .mountain road, stating that the lands have not been paid for by the Government. Reports of this kind are creating considerable excitement here.