TELEGRAPHIC.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1494, 27 September 1883, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

• 'Piuas Association, ... Dunedin, ThiiMday. 'Andfow -Pollock, lof Green Island, has received * cablegram stating that hn.Has'succeeded to a baronetcy: and £9OOO 'a year,

si Plymouth, Thursday. _ Alexander Bijswell, late of Lighter Company/'Was arretted last evening on a charge of embezzling''a cheque, the property of. Lighter Company. The case is now ojcupying the Court. •

NATIVE AFPAIMS;

WELLiNQTON,diuraday,The':Oovet'nment have now received information respecting, the. destruction' of the. beacons at Kawhi'a by' Natives, Mr Butler of the Native office,' - who was sent to make enquiries, fouhd that the beacons placed by .Captaiii " Fairchild recently, , were retnoved and so much broken,.-that it'' would take some - constablei " tinie to * re-erect ..chiefs who were .concehiedv In .the .id.e'strnction of the be^ns":had.. ; gone' to Whatiwhati.hoe with Tawhiao; aid-the other was' still, at Ka'whia,' and when Mr Bntler'called on liim to assiatat once ;to repairing and re-erecting the beacons, hei answered jthat he could not do so without instructions" FromTawhiao. .These two chiefs are' the same as were concerned in pulling up' the pegs along the road from Kawhia around to Aotea harbor.

. It is believed that in both instances the chiefs acted at the instance of Tawhiao and some of his belonging to the.. Waikato tribe. The beacons are not yet re-erected, The Hinemoa has left for Wellington.