LATEST TELEGRAPHIC.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 185, 14 June 1879, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAPHIC.

• . (PER iPKES3 ,iCtEpY. , ( ' WELLINGTON. May> 'lt is'^o^dlouf the water supply must be augmented,< as notwithstanding the lato wet weathor the increase in the storage has been very small. * : .

' l'li'eTo'st publishes an authoritative statement do not intend to ■ ptflpesffftnyHnct&fefr 111 th«» Land.* Jax,» ex-, cepting on propertios oxcceding £2,500 ,in value. Fitzhcrbert bids farewell to the House' of Representatives by letter through the Clerk of the House, The Chronicle thinks that the principle should be rigidly enforced in dealing ■with disaffected natives of making their laud pay the cost of the war. It should be sold and settled upon, and even should there not be war, the land should be taken possession of all tho same, Several candidates are spoken of in connection with the Hutt. Mason, an old settler, Dr Buller, and a son of Mr Fitzherbert. Several assignments we made to-day. Alphonso Rush, charged with perjury in Phillip's arson case, was committed for trial to-day, on tho cvidenco of Lima Jane Mellem, who stated that prisoner wanted licr to marry liim privately. Ho also said; " Lizzie, I tell you this with a view of making you my wife." Mrs Phillips was the woman the statioivmastor saw in the train, but ;is she was our sister, had wo not every right to protect her all we could .Witness asked him

why he told licr this, and subsequently she asked him how Mrs Phillips returned home. He said, " She came up on Sunday morning by the back lanes." He also said that life father had ■helped Mrs Phillips several times, hut could ilo so ho more.

Charge of arson against Mrs Phillips was adjourned till next morning.

Eitzhcrbcrt addresses his Hutt constituents by advertisement to-night, saying that the presidency of the Legislative Council having been offered to him by Government

he has decided, after careful deliberation, to acccpt.the offer.. This step, requires him to resign his seat for tho Hutt, He expresses regret for severing political ties which united

them so many years, and says he will always j cherish a grateful memory of the generous support they always gave him. F. E, Liardet and a man named Ikist, out shooting on the Wairarapa 'Lake, are missing, DUNEDIN. • Thursday. Tho total contributions to the Kaitangata Relief Fund amounts to upwards of £15,000. Of this sum about £IO,OOO was collected in Otago alone, while fully half tho total contributed is represented by sums of £3 and under.

There is a lot of false coin in circulation in Dunediu. principally imitation half-crowns and shillings, OAMARU. Thursday. Two mon, named Sydney Hodge and Eobt, Woodman, were out fishing off Mooraki yesterday afternoon, when just before dusk the boat was seen to dis.ippo.ir. To-day the boat came ashore in pieces, and there being 110 signs of the men, little doubt is entertained that both wero drowned. HOKITIKA. Thursday. ' The funeral of the late Bro. John Lazar, District Grand Master of the Westland Freemasons, todk place yesterday. There was a numerous attendance, including a large assemblage of the brethren, All the Masonic Lodges in the district were present, as also tho Chairman and members of the County

Council of Westland, and the Mayor and the Mayor and members of the Hakitika Borough Council, Tlio Volunteer Band headed the funeral procession, playing the " Dead March in Saul." Mrßarff, will address a meeting of his constituents at the Town Hall to-night' "WESTPORT, Thursday. Mr Munro, general manager of the ICoranui Coal Company, leaves to-day for Wellington, Canterbury, and Otago, on a mission to place 2055 shares, which hays not hitherto been applied for, in the market, The total capital of this company is £25,000, in five thousand shares of '£s each. Of this sum £2625 in paid-up shares, antl £532 in cash have been given to the promoters of the company and parties who originally took up leases.

BALCLUTHA. Thursday. The Island people intend to petition Parliament for compensation' for damage by floods occasioned by tho erection of the railway cmbailment. NEW PLYMOUTH. Thursday. Mr J. 11 Eees has been appointed engineer to the Now Plymouth Harbor Board There were seventeen applicants for the appoinment.

THE NATJVE DIFFICULTY. . ' (per press .agency.) Gisbokne, Thursday.. No native meeting lias yetboon held by i'k Ngatiporou or other tribes here to consider , the question of going to Waimatc. Wi P® o convened a mcotins: of the Poverty 13ay natives, ;hnt owing to the bad weather the meeting-did not take place. Patea, Thursday. The number of Volunteers sworn-in at Carlyle up to yesterday was 134,. which, with 70 cavalry men, make a total of* over 209. The settlers at Kakaramea aud Maintain, and' other places.are.-..also',organising -lormutual protection, The Volunteering spirit" is now .thoroughly groused, and drilling 'are being'rlpidly proi jeeded witti-.

TJiero is a storn determination' among the settlers to defend themselves and their homes. ; It ia felt that, aa all this; anxiety and- expense have boen- pccasionepthrough : the vanish# %Jikon of tliii Voluflteer inovoment settle the native difficulty on- this coast, as if the Government give way to the now frightened natives, and the Volunteering spirit is allowed to die out, there will he great difficulty in reviving it. The feeling is that ; HiroldishonkLhe demanded and obtained, or J

failing that',f"Tc Whiti, who'has lite the cause of the trouble, should bo secured, and the Parihaki den of murderers and discontents scattered. There is no necessity for hurried action, but the Government should let it be unmistakably Known that it is pre-

pared to carry out its alleged intentions. If

Volunteers are wanted for this purpose numbers will bo forthcoming, as it is strongly felt that there can bo no material guarantee for the peace of this coast until Parihaka is rooted out and the plains occupied, The principle that the land should pay the cdst should he strictly enforced. The suspension

of farming operations, consequent on the present state of insecurity, has already thrown numbers of'working men out of employment, and the loss to settlers, with uo crops to reop at harvest, will bo very great.