TELEGRAPHIC.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 9951, 27 December 1900, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

[per press association.]

DuNEDTsr, Last night. It appears that a cash-box with about £28 10s was stolen from a safe at the Mosgiel railway station between 9 p.m. on Tuesday and 6 a.m. on Wednesday. The burglars evidently entered the railway station by means of a skeleton key. The keyhole of the safe door was plugged up with dynamite or some other explosive, with the result that the holding bars inside were completely shattered The explosion must have been heavy as seveial pieces of iron were scattered about. Had the burglary taken place a night earlier £130 would have been secured.

Gisborne, Last night. The weather during the holidays has been most unusuil for this time of the year, and has Varied from summer to winter several times in one day.

To-day a tremendous sea came in from the ocean without apparently any cause for it locally, the air being comparatively calm, and the result was that when the Zealandia arrived from Auckland she was unable to communicate, and was ordered to Napier.

An exciting incident occurred at the conclusion of the races to-day. A troop horse of the Mounted Rifles threw its rider and bolted amongst the crowd, with a rifle swinging in the bucket. It. collided with a horse ridden by a Maori, the rifle striking it in the centre of the chest, piercing the aorta, and killing it intantly. There is considerable demand for sections in the large native estate called Mangatu, to be thrown open next month. Another large block, the Tahora. 60,000 acres, is to be subdivided immediately. At a native hui on Christmas Day to provide funds for building a meetinghouse, a collection was taken up, and £250 subscribed. The New Zealand ensign donated by the Government was unfurled by the Mayor. This tribe remained loyal during the massacre, and some of its members protected the Europeans with their lives.