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Marlborough Press, Volume XXI, Issue 1252, 10 December 1880, Page 2

The dismissed Police Inspectors are falling on their legs. Ex-Inspector Mallard, of Dunedin, has stumbled upon a flattering testimonial, 170 sovs., and a steady billot worth £BOO a year, and Mr W. G. Fox, late Police Inspector at Invercargill, has been appointed clerk and treasurer to the Wallace County Council. Mr G, M. Reid has concluded arrangements for the purchase of twelve thousand acres of excellent farming land, for his special settlement, situated within a few miles of Gisborne. Arrangements have also been nearly completed for future special settlements in various blocks further along the coast.

Mr William Clarke, who floated the South Pacific Petroleum Oil Company, is at present negotiating with the natives of the East Coast, and has succeeded in obtaining the consent and signatures of a large number of the native owners to a deed of conveyance of a portion .of ths liotorautuku Block to him, for oil boring purposes.

Mr Francis Franks, brewer, of Temuku, advertises in a Timaru paper for a partner for his son, to go into the wine and spirit trade, and puts in the notification, between parenthesis, “ not a lady.” Surely the old gent must have come across 6ome peculiar members of the feminine gender to insert these words. Last week a settler at Wailcoinite prosecuted an expressman named John Taw for threatening to skin him like un eel, dress him down like a sheep, and boil his bones, warning him at the same time to prepare for the speedy ordeal. Taw denied the language and the ease was dismissed.

News has been received at Sydney that the captain and three of the crew of the. cutter Leila, have been massacred by the natives at Port Webber, New Ireland Her Majesty’s schooner Beagle brings the new of the outrage. She also reports that tho Marquis. Do Ray’s immigrants have shifted from Likiliki Bay, in New Ireland, and are activoly preparing to leave and settle iu Queensland. The Brisbane correspondent of a Sydney paper, writing on the Chinese question, says : “ The legislation of last year against the Chinese is gradually having the desired effect of driving the hated Mongolian away. From Cooktown alone 889 left for China during the year, while only 54 new arrivals were reported The excess of departures over arrivals for the whole Colony was 998, but upon the goldfields there are at present 5235 fewer Chinamen than last year.”

In an article on Training schools, the Canterbury Press thus refers to the Kohimarama Naval Training School “It looked the most promi ing of all at first, but it seems to have boon an utter failure from the beginning, through gross mismanagement. From what we have recently heard of that school, we should eaj' that a boy is a very bad little boy indeed,, if ho is not made worse instead of better, by going there.

A large and important assemblages of natives was held last week at Tologa Bay. The meeting unanimously resolved to have the loud cut up for settlers. Mr G. M. Reed, accompanied by Mr Lionel Hanlon, one of the special settlers from Belfast, was present, and both addressed the meeting, stating their great satisfaction with tbe-bpji.ytv. and fertility of the country, and exwould be formed in the 'l’lie natives welcomed them, and expressed a strong desire to have a large number of settlers from England come and settle on their lands. The wind blows more than slightly occasionally in Wellington as witness the following from tho Times :—The strong gale which prevailed on Sunday caused a little damage in Mowbray* street. Immediately after tho breakfast-table had been laid at the residence of a gentleman there, the window frame yielded to the force of wind, and, with the sashes, was blown forcibly into the room against the table, capsizing it, and of course smashing all the breakfast crockery which had been laid thereon, causing damage to the extent of a couple of pounds. Strange to say, not a single pane of the glass in the sashes was broken. If the family had been sitting down •to breafast the result might have been more serious. The building is a brick one, and the frame had been laid in with cement. The force of the wind at this particular place must thus have been very great. The unfortunate young lady who was so barbarously murdered by Tuhi near Opunake had visited Parihaka, nud Te. Wliiti had been quite charmed by her winsome manner. After taking sketches in the pah, she asked to be allowed to ascend the bill overlooking Parihaka, to draw a sketch of the whole place from that point. The prophet said this was impossible, the hill was tapu to the pakeha, and no whiteman or woman had ever set foot on its summit. Miss Dobie, however, was pot to be baulked, and after a few minutes persuasion she got Te YVhiti to yield. Nay more (says the Rangitikei Advocate) the old prophet grouped his people and himself in picturesque positions, and the)' remained thus whilst the fair artist took the coveted sketch from tho hill-top. One of the most disastrous fires ever occuring in Dunedin, broke out about four on Sunday morning in the large wooden building on the reclaimed land, used as engine and tramway shed by Mr David Proud foot. It is not known how the fire originated. Seven men were on the promises at the time engaged in cleaning an engine, but so quickly did the flames spread that they had barely time to e-cape. The building has been completly destroyed, also thirty-three tram cars, seven engines, and a tremendous quantity of oats. The- insurances were :—New Zeal md, £2000; Victoria, £1500; Standard, £500; Norwich Union, £1000; London nud Lancashire, £1000; Transatlantic, £IOOO ; Australian Alliance, £SOO ; National, £IOOO ; Hamburg, £1000; Total, £12,000. It is almost certain that the fire is a case of incendiarism. The amounts above named were obtained from the insurance agents, but Mr Proudfoot says lie is insured for £14,000 He estimates his loss at £7OOO above this, without reckoning the loss which must ensue from suspension of traffic. Only three cars are left. A cable message was sent to America for others. More are on the way, and every effort will be made to keep up the traffic.

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