TOWN EDITION.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5565, 1 July 1889, Page 3

TOWN EDITION.

Tho total receipts on the New Zealand Railways for the four weeks ending 25th May amounted to £90,039 9a 9d, and the expenditure to £49,406 10s Bd. For to-morrow the Holiday Association have declared a whole holiday. This will onablo tho townspeople to get to the racecourse in amplo time to see tho first race, which starts at noon. The inquest in connection with the Oniahu shooting case was resumed at tho Courthouse this morning. Further evidence was tulu-u. There are several moro witnesses still to be oxamined, so it is probable the case will not be concluded before tomorrow. . Before commencing the proceedings at tho inquest this morning, tho R.M. eaid that his attention hud been drawn to a paragraph in a newspaper, with reference to two jurymen shaking hands with tho prisoner Waatara Wi. If ho had noticed thut action, he said, he would have treated it us contempt of Court, and lined the jurymen. Ho did not know who the jurymen were who shook hands with the prisoner, but ho could not pass over mentioning his surprise at suwi nu action. Gregan, on whocc remains an inquest was held the othor day, was an old-time miner. Ho had been all over Now South Wales, Victoria—tho only goldticld ho did not know there being Ballarat—Queensland, aud on the wost const of Now Zealand. He spent a oouplo of years iv tho King country prospecting, but abandoned that forbidden ground iiumo two aud a-half years ogo, and was not at all enamored of its prospects as a gold producing country. "While thero be worked for a syndicate, who equipped him for a prolonged stay, aud ho used to say he was never molested by the natives. In Hawko's Bay ho prospected in the Mahara- ■ hara fur copper, being engaged by a Napier syndicate. As showing tlie virji9nitndos» of the digger's life, poor Gregan used to tell of how he worked at a rush for some weeks, ; where ho got on an uvorage a pound weight i of gold per day.