Telegraphic.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3197, 6 May 1889, Page 2

Telegraphic.

Another Daring Burglary.,-

Palmers'!on North, Monday. . A daring burglary was committed here last night. James Miller's stom al the Square was broken into and the safe abstracted. -The safe was taken away in a and broken open with an axe in an open plot of ground about 100 yards from the square. About £lO in money was.taken, but the books and papers were left uninjured. The circumstances are very similar to the Fielding Post Office burglary,

The First Levee,

Wellington, Monday. The Governor held his first levee this morning. There was a large attendance, in consequence, the Court of Appeal was adjourned till this afternoon. '

Pastoral-

Oamaru, May 5, • The annual mooting of the Agricultural and Pastoral Association was held on Saturday. The balance'-, sheet showed a credit balance of ever £l2B, and the report stated that the attendance -at the last Show was larger tlian previously.

Funeral of a Chief-

CnßisicnußCH, Monday, Tlio famous old chief Opereh'ama Te Ikn was buried at Kaiapoi- on Sunday, THntjis were held during the past week, mid the funeral was attended by large numbers of Europeans as well as Natives. I'ho old chief w«8 BHjiposed to be 80 years of age wjien he died, He performed [»rodigi(-So£ valour when To Kauparaha and the North Island Maoris tpade that historical raid on the tribes inhabiting the South Island, uiassuoreiug the natives at Kaiapoi and ihe neighbouring, pahs. Ho is further distinguished as beinq the first Maoii ponvert to Roman Catholicism in the South Island, The funeral rites were performed by the Roman Catholio Bishop Grimes, and Fathers O'Connor and Mahone,

New Railroad-

Oreymouth, May 4. Tha Cobden Railway and Coal Company notify thiit they are going to apply for permission to construct a railway-from Cobdeu to Coal Creek. It is thought arrangements will be made between the two. companies'to use'only otoe line, though two lines are surveyed. TJie Maitai Valley Mystery. Nelson, May 5, The remains which were. dis. covered in an uuocoupied house in the Maitai Valley on Wednesday last have been identified as those of a man who came from Wellington. His name was Peroy' King, alias Watson, alias Wilson, alias McCasker. He was a native of Australia 87 years of age. In September, 1884 ha was convicted in Wellington, ot forgery and uttering, andsenteiiced to six years' penal servitude. On being liberated he come to Nelson, and was in lodgings till Friday, Bth Maroji when lie left, and • nothing was heard of hjm. He left a book at itelodgingjj with the iianie of 'Percy King in it, and some of his belongings found oil the body were Tdeiitittol by the peoplß of thr bom ;

Diphtheria Scare. Chbistohuroh, May i. -The East Ohristchuruh' School is to he -closed: until the unsatisfactory sanitary arrangemente, which are supposed to have caused the outbreak of diphtheria, have hem remedied, Mr 0. Jennings, one of the oldest settlers of Bangiora, and arrived in 1858, was seized witli an ap|iojileotio'fit; yesterday, aud died lust'night,. He was 74 years old; and; generally reapeoted throughout North .Canterbury,

Sir K. Stout. • Christchubch, May 4. Sir R. Stout sent the following reply to a letter from Mr Joyce, M.H.R., asking whether he- would contest Christchurch North Many thanks for your letter, but I have resolved not ,to enter polititw, in the meanwhile at all events. Whatever may happen in the future I do not know, and I shall not therefore make rash statements, but I must say that the longer Pain out 'of politics the less inclination I feel for entering pnbliclife, I am rather pessimistic over the future of Liberalism in New Zealand; I mean in the near future. Our land is going from us and not being properly settled ;■ tho need of further developments in education is not felt; and the political pendulum seems swinging toward parsimonious Conservatism that might injure us, The.ynuug New Zealand party Ims shown no national enthusiasm, and it has made what it calls 'economy'—l call it parsimonyits god. It is a poor ideal for a party, and is a will-o'-the-wisp, and .not a star toguide them. Outside Ido and shall do' all I can, but I cannot at presenl, even if desired by a constituency, enter the inner area. 1 ' Auckland Items- • Auclland, Monday.

Mr Mitchelson lias gone to Otorof haiiga for the purpose of conferring with the natives relative to the purjj chase of native blocks of land and settlement in the King country. .

The Trade and Labor Council has passed a vote of sympathy with Mr J. C. Firth on the closing of the eight hours mill. Mr Firth, in reply, says the-failure was not because the mill worked on the eight houra system.

The fate of the pig-hunting party at Mfttala has been' ascertained. Tongarara, the younger brother, was found jammed about half-way down a water fall, which is at leas„ eighty feet high. The brothers must have left 1 to go to the creek at the same time. Both bodies, were found within three chains'of each -oMier. _ Wanganui Items- , Wanganui, May 4. A wedding took |ilac3 to-day at Christ's Church between the fiev P. Marshall and Miss Gertrude Bishop SuttT, of Nelson, performed the ceremony, and the bride wns given away by Mr 0. J. Phamzyn, of Wellington, her uncle. There was a large attendance of the The Salvation Army have sent a a brigade up the Wanganui liver, to Jerusalem, a Roman Catholic settle-, inent, where they intend to conduct the wort of the Army, The Native Land Court has adjourned to Waitotara at the request of the Natives; but before doing so it gave the Maoris to understand that if there was any drunkenness there it would at oce move back into the town. During the sitting'df-the Court here the behaviour of the Natives has been all that could be desired. Diunkenness and the absence of all squabbling have marked the' whole piojeediegs.