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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 3016, 29 September 1888, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

' An Old Mail Missing- - s t f — i l ut \ {C The Petitions to the Sheep ? " Department, h

Welmngton, Tuesday .**s * It has been reported to ihojplice j^" ~*p tnatanoldmaiinamcdThoma9Hudd, "*£ who was boarded out by the Bene, volent Society, is missing since Wed- " >"). nesday last ■» » -»» * « > The Minister of Lands has received s „' petitions begging that every one of the Sheep Inspectors may 1)8 retained m their present districts, but he refused, , I*. on the ground that popularity is not - s mxessaiily evidence of efficiency The " { ' pesent chief Inspector goes to Ancle- *" ■> land, Ihe six Inspeclois who are to have obarge in future, will meet the Mimstei on Monday, for the purpose , of becoming acquainted v, ith him and ( each othei, and receiving instructions, 1 s * Military Funeral at! (Jreytjfa^ GsmowtfJ Saturdays A special turn will leave Maslerion A at 10 30 to morroV (Sunday) morn-! ing to 1 convey Volunteers and friends' wishing jto 4tehd Lieut. funeial 'Thetningoesto FeaiW, ton, ami ,fiom thence to Grejujkv It will be a free passage , for YofiJl. teeis, Sutmday leturn fares being charged to the geneial public The tiatn returns at 6 o'clock \ The New Gold Diggings , A Caution " Blenheim, September 28. The rush to tho Waikakaho sfill continues, but for wlut reason it is difficult to understand. There is nothing whatever to warrant the rush. Thore are nearly 700 men on the field, but only the prospectors have touched bottom. The Maoris are downthirty feet.and only gotthe color. Large numbers of diggers aro arriving eveiy day, partly en route to Makakipawa [Mahakipawa] and partly to Waikakaho. Persons should be warned not to [be] carried away by sensational reports and should on no account leave situations to go to the diggings. The finds and accounts of the field hijye been greatly exaggerated. The {pi is already well manned, The quartz specimeus arocertaiuly very promising, but the development of the reefs is a matter of labor and capital.