TELEGRAMS

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume XI, Issue 607, 21 May 1881, Page 3

TELEGRAMS

The Tararua enquiry is being continued today. Mr Smith, counsel for the mates, is addressing the Court on their behalf. The 'JJaily Times' publishes a twelve page summary to-morrow. .. . - ' '..-■ .- ■'• Wellington. The correspondent of the' Times' says-that* Mr Oliver's resignation is fully expected every day. ... The Detached Squadron will visit Auckland, including the Bachante with the E oyal Princes. Mr h. S. Fish's ease, in which he claims £SO for assault against four members of the St Leonards School Committee was expected to come off yesterday, but was adjourned for a week. A man named Peter Hodge Kirk committed suicide in London Sb yesterday, by hanging himself from a swing at a house there. His dumpstic relations were unsatisfactory, his wife having sued him for maintenance the other day. The City Council has resolved to amalgamate the offices of City Treas - urer and Town Clerk.

Tapanui intends to borrow £2,500 principally for water supply. Sir George Grey will try to visit Invercargill before the session. Franck, patentee of the totalisator, is serving writs on the Committee of the Dunedin Jockey Club for using the instrument. Considerable discussion is taking place over the proposal to shift the race course to the Taieri. The Forbury Park Company is considered unreasonable in its demands. A Chinaman was found dead in a water race at Hindon. There was only two inches of water. He had been dead three weeks. He was subject to epileptic fits. Parihaka. At the meeting yesterday the proceedings were very peaceful. No further trouble is anticipated—All the discharged prisoners were present; The total population of the Colony, including Shipping aud Chatham Islands, is 489,591. At the Land Board, Messrs Connel and Moodie, on"behalf of a settler at Highlay, requested that the deferred payment sections 18, 20, and ;21, -block v II, Highlay, should be opened for sale-on immediate payments. It was decided to recommend the Government to open the sections for sale on i nmediat.) payments, in accordance with a request. Patrick MWulty, Tiger Hill, applied to purchase 11 acres, blk 11, Tiger Hill district, numbered,-section 25. The application was granted, subject to the applicant paying survey fees.