LATEST TELEGRAPHIC.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 201, 3 July 1879, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAPHIC.

(PER PEESS AOBNOY. WELLINGTON. Wednesday. There was a good deal of excitement iu town this morning by a report being current that shooting had commenced at Hawera, The report originated amongst the town Maoris. The Government having no information on the subject, au urgent message was sent to Hawera, when the following reply was received :—" Hawera, 10.45 a.m. No truth whatever in the report that fighting had commenced, Ploughing has not recommenced. Te Whiti says that the ploughmen having been imprisoned, his prophecy is ended. This is taken to mean that the matter passes into other hands now, which is supposed to be Titokowaru's." ' The Patoa left to-night with 25 Constabulary for Patea.

A man named Shearer was brought up for brutally assaulting his paramour Rebecca Stewart, The woman was frightfully knocked about, the injuries so bad that t.io woman was unable to appear. Shearer was remanded for a week. It is understood that the Government finally decided not to appoint another Auckland man to a vacancy in the Cabinet, It is reported that the Attorney Generalship was offered to Moorhouse. The Nativo Minister received a telegram from Major Brown at Hawera to the following effect;—Katene says there is a messenger from Te Whiti expected at Waiwercnui to' give final instructions to Titokowaru, who, he says, has been able to hold his own against Waikato, Taupo' and Pakeha, and he is to take charge of the ploughing. He wishes Te. Iki and Titokowaru to be taken prisoners by the Europeans, but not thosewhohavebeeu lm prisoned before, as they have lostcaste. These latter are to go to Parihaka and place themselves under his protection. The ploughers ai-3 to go on ploughing oven if the Europeans strike them witli the sword; they arc not to resist even if .they are killed, It will be all right, The ploughing is not merely ploughing of land, but a ploughing 'mana' or authority of the Government, so as to irritate them to go to neck for him, Te Whiti, at Parihaka, and, when he dies, the two races will be united as one. To Iki is to take a ploughing party, and if that is stopped, is to take a fresh one, and

a party after party as they are taken prisoners until ten parties lmvo been taken ten times. Katene says Titokowaru mil lead the last ploughing party. At the meeting where tiiese instructions were given, Katene tried to advise them against the absurdity of their action, but was told by Te Iki that his talk was unpalatable, that lie wished to see Wellington and Otago and even the gallows to be hung, He also saiiUhat the natives liavebeento view their county on the south side of the river to select ground for ploughed operations ; and Titokawaru has approved of Mr Harrow's and Goodson's farms at Waihi as firewood- there is handy for cooking purposes. The ploughing will p.iobably be resumed to morrow morning.

Titokowaru is opposed to the natives south of ITawera doing any ploughing in their, district, as they have lost caste, either by siding with the Government, or by being taken prisoners, no arms are to be taken, and no

resistance on any account to be offored. Between 300 and 400 women and children have assembled to-day to hold a tangi for the people goiug to plough, as if they were going to their death. It in understood that Grey sent a verbal message by Macandrew to Ballance to-day offering to apologise amply if hewoufd resume the Treasurership. Ballance replied it was no longer possible. Ho left in the Rangatira for Wanganui to-night. An accident happened on board the Kangatira this evening before leaving. While taking in cargo the purchase carried away and let an iron monkey fall, which broke the hatchway, and two men in the hold were injured. One got a severe tcalp wound, and the other being severely crushed. They were taken to the hospital.

SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS. Auckland, Thursday. The following is a summary of the San Francisco mail news : 120,000 coiliers at Barnstaple demand an increase oi 10 per cent, or they will go on strike. Sixty cotton operatives have gone to Canada to start a mill under protection. .. Numbers of fanners are failing in Norfolk, Lincolnshire, Landlords cannot get tenants at reduced rotes. Chelmsford remains in Africa after Wolseley's arrival. The Panama-Aspimvall route for the canal is adopted. Germany lias invited the other Powers to protest against the South American war on the ground of inhumanity. A conflagration at Eastern Russia causes great distress.

The Nihilist trial at Kief includes many nobles. Third Russian wheat crop is threatened with destruction by insect. Female Nihilists arc being sent to the mines. 500 Daghestiin mountaineers have been exiled to Siberia 3 A Commission lias been sent to examine a strange disease amongst the Tcrtirs at Astrachan The hill making civil marriage obligatory betorc the religious ceremony, passed the Italian Chamber. Pope deplores Etna eruption diminishing. Covered a portion of bed of river at Catania; adjacent village abandoned. Stream of lava half-a-mile wide and 100 feet deep interrupted the road The revolution in Crete is extending. Skirmishes occurred at Thessaly. Several towns were captured, the Turks losing heavily, and Greek brigands ambuscaded Turkish soldiers and cut fourteen to pieces, hanging the limbs on trees Eussia proposes an alliance with Turkey, but the relations are cooling, the Sultan suspecting the sincerity of the Czar 30,000 persons <lied of the cholera in Egypt on retnrmng from the pilgrimage Wool active, and better prices The Zulu army of Cetawayo slaughtered a powerful tribe who wanted to surrender. Cetewayo has concentrated his troops in a densely wooded range, where they await the British A Bolivian privateer is seizing Chilian goods in neutral ships

JiOKAU. Wednesday Te Wetero has written to the Government giving a full explanation of his conduct. In the letters he has sent he says ho will explain the whole of his action, and show he had no intention of removing Europeans. AUCKLAND. Wednesday. The Spiritualists waited on Thome, illusionist, challenging him to perform glade's slate-writing. Thome said his private seance was one guinea for five minutes. Tuesday, f Intelligence with regard to the ope/atibna at the Taupo wreck states that during the recent gale Mr Gouk was compelled to lower the vessel, owing to the danger of the yessel bumping a hole through her bottom upon the blocks, Another attempt was made yesterday, when she was lifted a distance of two feet. It was anticipated that the vessel wsuld be floated to-day, when a final lift was to be made, and if successful Gouk will get canvas on and pump her out. She will then be towed on to Auckland.

Sixty men have been enrolled in the Light Infantry Corps at Hamilton, Waikato, and Captain Dawson, of the 67th. Regiment, has beeu appointed to the command, The Hinemoa, with the Governor and Colonel Whitmoro, goes South to-morrow, At the Police Court yesterday John Drake was sentenced to six weeks' imprisonment for borrowing money on the security of a Crown grant entrusted to him for safe keeping, The prisoner is a very old settlor, The news by the Meg Memlees, from Levuka, is unimportant, She reports that all the coolies by ship Leonidas, from Calcutta, were landed on the island of Dampier, where they had to undergo quarantine. Barracks already have been erected, and every precaution taken to prevent the spread of smallpox, Public opinion is much excited over the Ministerial rupture, but only Mr Ballance's side of the question appears iu the morning journal. Stewart, Government engineor, proceeds to Waikato in a few days to erect a house at Government expense for Eowi at Kiliikihi. NELSON. Tuesday. At a meeting of the Nelson members of the New Zealand Rifle Association, Major Pitt was appointed their representative in the Conned. Resolutions were passed recommending that the head-quarters shoiml bo at the place where the firing takes place, and that the range committee be composed of non-competitors.