TELEGRAPHI.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3460, 15 March 1890, Page 2

TELEGRAPHI.

Auckland, March 11.

Several sections in tlio village settlements iu the North have been forfeited owing to the non-compliance of the settlers with the conditions.

Offing to the continued dry weather the dairy men contemplate rising the price of millr.

In regard to the 46,000 acres of laud withdrawn from settlement, 1 as tho etl'ec't of tho proclamation of the Puliipuhi Held, the Crown Lands Board have passed tlio following resolution:-That the Board recommend that the. Government should, as soon us possible, remove from tho operations of the Mining Act all the lands that were under offer in tho area now covered by the.l'uliipuhi mining district previous to its being proclaimed as a goldlield, and to readvertise them for selection with the exception of the areas that were open for selection uuder tho homestead system in the vicinity of tho reported mineral discovery.

CiiMSTcrtoncii, March 14,

Jano Leo and I'. Jones, accused last week of cruelty at fjoulhbridgo,] were sentenced to one months' hard labour to-day, Duncan Martin, who was three weeks ago committed for trial on several charges of stealing goods fram his employers, Messrs Mason, Strainers aud Co., was to-day committed on three additional charges of stealing goods to tho value of £l2 from thesame firm, .

An Unknown Rock,

Auoklanii, March 14,

Boforo.hef departure for the South, the steamer Mararoa made a crip down to Drunken Bayjwhicli is in a remote pa»fc of tho harbour, for the purpose of her compass adjustment,. Tliis bay is very frequently visited by the Union Company's steamers for the like purpose, and hitherto has been entered with the greatest safety. Tho Mar >roa, however, on coming out touched on a hidden object, presumed al tho time to be a rock. The vessel was found lo be uninjured, An extensive search has since been made for the supposed rock, but without success, and tho search is to bo resumed,