ARRIVAL OF THE TARARUA.

Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 760, 7 January 1871, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE TARARUA.

INCREASED YIELD OE OTAGO . GOLDEJELDS. REPORT OE WAIKATO r M3pJA<KBE CONTRADICTED, SIXTY EUROPEANS KILLED IN THE WAIKATO. (£F ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) (FItOII OUlt OWN COItBESPOJTDENT.) Hokitika, Eriday. The s.s. Tararua arrived at the Bluff ou Thursday, Laving left Melbourne on the 29th December. The schooner Maid of Erin has arrived at Melbourne, from Westport. Business in Victoria was being interrupted by the holidays. The iuter-Colonial University Boat Race and Cricket Match were won by Victoria.

Another street fracas has occured, iu Melbourne, in which a Mr Simeon Cohen assaulted Mr Nathaniel Levi member of the Legislative Assembly. Heavy gales have been experienced on the coast of New South Wales. The barque Rialto was wrecked at Newcastle, and the brig Sarah at Port Macquarie. Eurther news from Wellington contradicts the reported massacre of sixty persons in the Waikato. The last Otago escort brought down for the month 19,Q00ozs. The gold returns for the year 1870 exhibit an increase over the two previous years of 20,0000z5. (Erom the Grey Biver Argus.) . Taranaki, via Patea, Dec. 31. A man named Bishop was knocked off his horse at the "Waitara sports and severely hurt. He has since died. On Monday, a man named Ainglc, while cutting the foot off a sheep, the knife slipped and cut a vein in his arm. He bled for sixteen hours without any one knowing it, and was found lying on his bed in a pool of blood. He is recovering. A Steam Navigation Company has been started here. At the Agricultural Show the flax exhibited gave great dissatisfaction, a« per judge's report.

. This 'is a very dull Christinas fo tradesmen.

A mounted orderly from Waiti camp is just iu. He reports that four natives reached there from Mokau with the intelligence that sixty persons hare been killed in the Waikato. i

The telegraphist was tomahawked on the head.

At the iuquest on the man killed at Waitara sports, the verdict was " accidental death." CiißisTcmJKCu, Jan. 2. An inquest was held on the 30th instant, at Akaroa on the body of Thomas Growan, who was killed iu a drunken quarrel at Le Bon's Bay. A verdict of wilful murder was given against George Hall and David Wright, _. The "Volunteer encampment at Sumner commenced on Saturday. Three hundred volunteers attended. Col. Harrington reviews them to-day. A sham tight takes place afterwards.