NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Hastings Standard, Issue 17, 15 May 1896, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Auckland, May 11. A [Maori, 102 years old, is missing in the Coromandel ranges. Search parties have gone to look for him. The Native Parliament at Tokaanu has prorogued. The petition to the Queen i- t>. have further signatures appended, and an embassy is to be despatched to England next year. The Treaty of Waitangi is the basis of their grievances. Wellington, May 14. The Brunnerton Royal Commission sat at Brunnerton this morning and had under examination Robert Tenant, one of the employees of the Brunner mine. He completely upset the theory advanced by experts that the explosion was caused by " blow out " shots, and stated that the shot hole that was discovered by experts was put in by a man some ten months ago. His evidence came rather as a revelation. At an inquest on the boy Ivilsby, who died under chloroform, the evidence showed that all precuutions had been taken. Death was a pure misadventure, ami a verdict was returned accordingly. Pr Chappie, asked if he could explain why there had been so many deaths of late in the colony while patients were under the influence of chloroform, replied that he could give no explanation except that the climatic conditions might have had something to do with the matter. He had performed 134 operations under chloroform, and the present was the first death. At a meeting held to-night, attended bv about 190, a Wellington branch of the New Zealand Natives' Association was formed, and a provisional committee appointed to draw up rules. It was explained that the association was based on the rules of the Australian Natives' Association, and would take the form of a national benefit, literary, and social society. The association would take no part in party politics, and no religious discussions would be allowed at any of its meetings, all creeds meeting on a common platform, and for that reason the association would oppose the teaching of religion in State schools. Westpokt, May 14. The pioneer vessel of the foreign coal trade sailedjti^wmim^^lifitt

Ciiiustciiurch, May 11. The Hon. -J. McKenzie addressed a large meeting at Kaiapoi la.st night, and received a vote of thanks. A vote of confidence in the Government was also carried unanimously. Oajiaku, May 14. The balloting for 64 sections in the Ardgowan estate took place to-day, but only 31 were got through. There arc lfi 10 applications, and the drawing will probably conclude to-morrow. Of the successful applicants 14 arc females, and only five successful applicants are from outside the Oamaru district. Invkkcakoill, May 14. Last evening Alexander Munro, an early settler, dropped dead in the sLreet on his way home. He appeared in rebust health. Death was due to apoplexy. A medical man was to-day fined .£2O and bound over to keep the peace for assaulting a servant girl with a candlestick, half the fine to go to the girl, whose teeth were loosened by the blow. A most alarming accident occurred yesterday to Lucy Williams, wife of a labouring man at Duck Creek, Blutt n ad. She was cooking at an open lire, and reaching a pan her skirt took fire. She was immediately in a blaze. Her children ran out screaming and attracted the attention of their father, who was working some distance away- When he reached the house lie found his wife on her hands and knees, her clothing burnt off, and frightfully injured. She died this afternoon. The poor woman was onlv ;-»G Years old, and leaves a family of io. * '