SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

Waikato Times, Volume XIII, Issue 1085, 7 June 1879, Page 2

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

[press agency.] AUCKLAND, last night. A Dunedin telegram says that Col. . Scratchley is coming to fix the big guns at the various ports. GRAHAMSTOWN, last night. Marler, form employed as a compositor on the * Southern Cross,' and afterwards on the ' Northern Advocate,' and latterly collecting for Dennes, was found drowned. He is supposed to have been' blown off the Grahamstown Wharf last night. COROMANDEL, last night. Last night's gale blew down, trees, fences and windows, and, so damaged the new public school that it had to be abandoned. ROTORUA, last night. Campbell and party are arranging with the natives to complete the survey of the Paeroa block for the Government. NEW PLYMOUTH, last nigjit. LATEST FROM TARANAKI. Considerable excitement bas been caused here by a report that sixty strange natives had been scan at Ma'uikorihi Pa m the centre of Raleigh township. At Waitara Maori bullock carts have been proceeding to and from Kaiheke, an old Maori stronghold. Arms have been sent to the settlers at Okato. Major Atkinson has gone to Hawera at the invitation of his constituents. Strange Maoris were seen at Waitara yesterday. They were partly Waikatos who came down with Rewi aud never returned, and partly Ngatimanas who had come down the river. It is supposed they are on their way to Parihaka. New Plymouth is ttanquil this morning. The following Volunteers had been enrolled : — New Plymouth Cavalry 45/ infantry 107, cadets 41, Urunui 38, Waitara 55, Bell Block 44, Okato 50, Ingle wood 121, total 501. A picket was on duty at Waitara last night. The Stella is expected with 50 men from Tauranga. The natives stopped the road work at Te Puna, and threatened to drive a settler, named Esdaile off his land. They took some cattle. The affair is said to have arrisen out of a land dispute, and to ]be of no political significance. THE NATIVE AGGRESSION AT TARANAKI.