SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 754, 17 April 1877, Page 2

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

Auckland, last night. Mr Robert Graham has resolved to contest the City West Election. Mouuatairis fell from £9 to £8. Clooing sellers, £8 10s : Kurunui Hill, 35 s. TAURANaA,JIasb night. SUICIDE OF SERGEANT MATHIESUN. Sergeant Mathieson, Armed Constabulary Force, shot himself through the head with a revolver, at two o'clock this morning. Ho was hearily m debt to storekeepers iv

wn, and had received two or three ummonseg. It is also supposed he' was wrong m Government accounts. He was' m charge ofJ^e fiy||Mft4 n^at store. He leav^S^if^gn^ r .TKH tang^ver tljjf )bqdy ! 'ofj thejcle6ea^^ ■"'Ohief of 4 fhe native )fyn&. living i^ve Mercer is over, 'slid tna natt^efinave^ many of them, returned, and others are returning io their several hapus. M&st o£ them came from the King country, and riirgrpsrty'of tlfeWfi imeAmtiiful? - r E»st Hamilton, on Saturday, en roicte toi Maiingatautari. Toe greater number, however, retnrnod by way of Wai pa. Amoriggirthem were^hß^sh^^¥aWttTOO3r tho Kmg's sister Margaret and several nativej^.of rank. Sbme estimate of the number of native .assembled may be . gathered from the faot thab ; 6,QQQ cc's, a;motigßt^ihe^|o'ocl,,werft.;cdn^^Wd a,t the t«ngi^ the '-iJfrglEfttol !^(Stt',!)fe"igfted^oib3. * *A any 'of the .. ho we^iy did not return, but are now at Hauraki, where f n}a~nyi&efiisera df?d^(JS|Ts.ed'p tribe? are located. ' There, another Hiingi^will^ oome off, and when^the. larders of their Sauraki.friends. and,, relatives are cleared out, -the visitors will return,' it 'is said,* come time during.the present week.