OPENING THE LAKE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4114, 16 May 1892, Page 2

OPENING THE LAKE.

Forcible Resistance by the j Natives. j A Temporary Compromise. Feathbrston, Saturday. \ The Wairarapa Lake was opened ) yesterday morning, after some resist- i tance fiom the Maoris, who assembled | in force, and had a fifteen chain fence E erected across the sandbar. The basis of a compromise was that the River Board should summon a Maori for E forcibly interfering with the men , opening the lnke, Inspector Thorn- £ son and six policemen (armed) were ( present, and Mr Menteath, solicitor, j represented the Maoris, and Mr Izard the fiiver Board. Forcible resistance was offered. ■ • l it took the settlers about three j hours to open the lake. There were | about eighty Maoris present,, and as , many Europeans. The Maori chiefs , H, E, Tuouiorajigi and Piripi Te j Maari were present, and directed the. proceedings as ordered by their soiioitors, Messrs Menteath and Bath- J gate. The. Chairman of the Eifer i Board ordered Mr Barlon, the con* . tractor for keeping the lake open, to i , commence work. He had scarcely , , started before a Maori seized his ' i shovel, and a struggle took place for 1 its possession. Both parties looked on impassively.. The Maori women i then broke in and prevented the men • working, putting the sand' baok in | the holes with their hands and feet. When the settlement-was arrived at, the Maoris showed manifestations of J joy, and danced a war dance, gestiou- , latingin the faces of the ■ settlers, . Much moderation was displayed by I both parties, and the utmost good r feeling prevailed. No less than t 10,000 acres of pastoral land has been J submerged, destroying the vegetation, while the roads in the vicinity of the lake,are axle-deep with water. Inspector Thomson returned to town this 9 morning. Mr G, F. Button 'acted as t interpreter for the River Board, and 1 Mr Butler represented the Government during the korero. Iwe mlmfiENm >t _.. ' General Booth's Emigrants. r London, May 13, jj General Booth will probably limit y the first batch of emigrants to 500. He asserts tliat the condition of the Army's finances will not delay the prosecution of the scheme. J NEWSIfUBLE. !• ■ lf English. n London, May 18, ." ' France, Germany, Italy, S«itznr,e land, and Belgium will attend- the Jt proposed Silver Convention, ie Sir.Henry Loch believes that the athletic portion of the Fan -Britannic scheme is calculated to draw the English-speaking races closer.togeth- , er, and he is glad to see an energetic effort being made to give effect to the proposal,. Probate has been granted of the will ot Alexander Allen, shipowner, for a half million sterling, Glasgow

charities receive bequests amounting to £40,000 under it, The Times considers that there is a glowing future'"before the Imperial Institute, as the growth of political power in 'ie colonies is uniting them 1 more oloac'y to England. London, May 18. ' The Trust Agency of Australasia has withdrawn £140,000 invested in ' New Zealand, owing to the threat of an inorease of the income taxi ' Lord Eosebery assorted that the Premier's recent speech on Home ' Rule was.the most dangaroiiß and i reckless uttered by a Prime Minister ' of Great Britain for two centuries. i Tho London and Westminster Bank has placed a million of New 1 South -Wales i per cent Treasury 1 bills at 100];, the bills to have four i yearß* currency. Payment of interest commences on the Ist of July. . ' It is reported that a conspiracy to poison enormously insured horses by means of strychnine : has been un« ' earthed and that one arrest has been ' made in connection with it. - 1 Foreign, Ottawa, May 12. 1 Baron Mueller has been created a ' Dootor of Laws by the Macgill Uni--1 versity in Montreal. May 18. 1 The Canadian Government is 1 asking Great Britain to permit it to be | more fully represented at Washington • than elsewhere. Paris, May 18. 1 It is reported that a Vendetta ' Committee has been formed in Pans to take vengeance on individual dynamiters. Paris, May 18. ■Owing to a dispute in a baccarat club in the city a French Baron , grossly insulted ex-king Milan o( : Servia, who sent a .challenge to the Baron to fight a duel. . i The Baron declined to meet the exI king, and apologised, mmm, ' ' [By.Centauh.] . : The acceptances for tho Akura Race j Meeting close on Wednesday next, ) The races themselves take place at the ) Akura course on Queen's Birthday, A totalisator will baon the ground, together with all the other "n.eces" | saries,"' With One weather this, the i first native meeting in'the district, r will be a great success. ■ i ; A sporting writer in a Napier paper I says i—lt waß said at the time of the i Woodville races that Roger could have 1 beaten Kaika in the Hurdles had the I .rjder bljbsK The-horse and'jockey i were disqualified by that Club, but the i committee of the H.B, Jockey Club i haveconcUed from the evidence sent ; them' that the horse 'wat ridden out, I and that they will not endorse the disqualification, A nice position for , the Woodville Olhb to be placed in I It will certainly be a warning to be more careful in the future,' '■ v ••■ '.:■ , The number of nominations for' the i New Zealand Cup is 71. These 71 i horses are'owned by 39' person's, the ■ two owners who ■ have the largest [ number of nominations being Messrs i Ormond and Douglas, of Napier, who i eadD hve five horses in their names, i The totalisator'.is not apparently i patronised jto such' an e'ijent in i Queensland as in New Zealand, for , at a. two. day's meeting/liefd npde'r the i uußpices of the principal olub in Bris'< ' bane, only £7OOO was passed through the instrument!. -. . -■'

The latest novelty in sporting pirolea I in- Vienna is playing billiards on horsßbaok. Tho table was fixed up in a riding school, and a cannon game of 60 up was played, Though there must be considerable, difficulty in managing a pony and a cue at same time, it is asserted that the garntCl' was played in 25 minutiß. In the absenoo of proof to the con:rary and b'diig minus the rules governing ihe if' play, the above may be takjn for what it is worth, The hot fly, which' for some time has been very troublesome in Auckland, has made its-appearance in the Wuipawa and Waipukurau districts, jk but at Hastings very little' has' been 6een of the pest. '■'' -\ .. ', A signoftho Hmeß in India is the enormous importation of horses from abroad, Last year from' Australia alone the,' imported into Calcutta was 4180; as against 2830 the previous year, At the Geraldine raoes on Thursday f * the Welter Handicap, .was iron by a horse named Sebastopol, on which the totalisator paid the handsomotimdend ot £lB7 Bs, The owner of the torse was the holder of the solitary tiokefc issued on the winner. (l&r