CABLEGRAMS

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1205, 16 October 1882, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS

(Heoteh's Teiegrams.) 1 BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH—COPYRIQUT, [ ' * A MAORI BUBBLE, i A MODERN DUEL Lord Kimberley has sent to the Queen presents of mats and greenstone meres brought to England by the Maori Embassy, and she has acknowledged them The Home Newi st-ites that two impor- | tant meetings were held in the conference ! room of the House of Commons to consider a scheme for wresting th-j deci 0 of the ( Mam The need for such a sell'mi i Slid . to ex'st, In fact contrary to the policy of the chiefs, the native lands are rapidly alienated and the proceeds squandered, The scheme proposed is, by means of an association originated in England to which all waste lands may be transferred for the purpose of opening up, to invest, by way of sinking fund, the prime valno of the land 1 as it is sold at enhanced values to settlers. 1 Permanent alicniated annuities are to be granted by the New Zea'and Government in favor of the indivi dual landowner), or their heirs, and shareholders in theassiciatiou t-j share with the natives auy further profit on , improved values in the land. The quantity of land to be dealt with is 101)00,000 acres, and it is estimated that in eighteen years the native landowners will be m the enjoyment ot the interest of £4,000,000. 1 Tawanga and other chiefs at strongly advocate the plan, and the movement has secured the approval of the Earl of Shaftesbury, the Bishops of London, Liverpool and St. Asaph, Sir Penrose Julyan, Alderman McArthur, and other men of note. Lieutenant Stilehine and Captain Prince I Skaowaki recently fought a duel at Paragolo, a few miles from St. Petersburgh. j Skaowski f 'll at the first shot, slightly wounded, but the ball he fired in falling morally wounded Stilehine. The Right Reverend Edward Steere, Bishop of Central Africa, is dead. . ; A hailstorm at Pesth on the 28th August destroyed the vineyard, maize fields, and fifty houses. Many workman were killed; A woman hoar Ohenlies, County Donegal, wis shot by a process-server on the 18th, because she objected to the seizure of her cattle.- : The Colonisation Society for the North-, east territory has been floated in' the London market by the Rev. Mr Bray, Of Montreal, with a nominal capital of £IOOO. . ; / A cable has been laid between Lisbon and the United States, touching at Azores. At Arizona the loaches are a?ain on the warpath, committing fearful outragea,. and • 'depredations. V A demented girl at large in Nashville, Ten,, recently poisoned a whole.hmily of six by putting strychnine in their coffee..: A cablegram from Yokohamr state? that ohelera ii raging in Japan. ' 775 eases oc* burred in two davs, of which 572 proved fatal, at Tokio, where there are 50 deaths daily from this cause. ; A horrible suicide took place at ,Ban Francisco on . the 3rd. . A chemist named Lewis Kompt p'aced » number of cartridges in his mouth, lit the fuse, and was blown to ■pieces,