LATEST TELEGRAMS.
(pee obeville's telegbam company, betjteb's agents). Dunedin, Priday. The Dock Trust dispute has culminated in the contractors serving a writ on the trustees for £22,000. Auckland, Priday. A native woman has been murdered at Ohinemuri.
The Provincial Executive Public "Works Scheme, based upon Mr Gisborne's circular provides for an expenditure of one million sterling. Wanganui, Priday. Fat cattle, 15s to 17s 6d per lOOlbs; merino sheep, for butchers, 5s 3d to 7s; store sheep 4s to ss. Wellington, Priday. The following special telegram has been received from Tauranga. A report that Te Kooti has been reinforced by fifty TJriweras is authorised, but discredited here.
It is considered unnecessary to strengthen the outpost at Whahatane, beyond sending five constables from here and five from Opotiki. Captain Simpson just returned from Maketu, reports all quiet.
Te Kooti's commissariat is rnise 1 *" ably defective, and he has to move his camp often to obtain food. It is reported at Waihi that Te Kooti is approaching Tauranga. It is not known which Waihi is referred to. Te Hira Arawa says that there will be fighting shortly.
Natives are working splendidly beyond Botorua.
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Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 852, 19 August 1871, Page 2
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190LATEST TELEGRAMS. Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 852, 19 August 1871, Page 2
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