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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume III, Issue 219, 15 September 1868, Page 3

Tbe chief Taipari has undertaken at his own expense to put Pollen-street, Shortland, in a good state of repair. Workmen are now busily employed preparing the thoroughfare for macadamising. A Wellington telegram in the Marlborough Express of the 12th instant says that further particulars have arrived there of the recent attack on Te Ngutu-o-Manu, from which it appears that the force consisted of 200 Europeans and 100 Wanganui natives. The scene of the fight was at Ruarura, a quarter of a mile nearer Ngutu-o-te-Manu. The Wanganuis drove in the outlying picket, and the whole force occupied a gully for nearly 10 miles, when officers and men falling obliged them to retreat. Both officers and men, and especially the Wanganui natives, behaved extremely well, and fought gallantly. From 28 to 31 of the rebels are now stated to have been killedThe Constitutional party par excellence — the 29 gentlemen said to represent the * intelligence, property, and education' of the colony — are thus classified, marked, aud numbered by a Wellington contemporary: — Paid officials of Provincial Government, 10 — Messrs Heaphy, Brandon, Taylor, Reynolds, Williamson, Rolleston, Macandrew, Yogel, O'Rooke, Featherston. Unpaid official of Provincial Government, I—Mr1 — Mr Dignan. Late paid officials with hopes, 2 — Messrs Burns and Borlase. Aspirants to ofiice (having tasted its sweets aud drawn a good deal of public money in their time), 3 — Messrs Fox, Bell, and Travers. Independent members, representing * the intelligence, property, and education' of the colony, 12 — viz., Messers Baigent, Wood, Parker, Harrison, Collins, Macffarlane Macfarlan, Main, Cargili, Studholme, Graham, and Tancred. A bill has been introduced into the Tasmanian Legislature, to provide for the commutation of the sura of £15,000 a year reserved by the Constitution Act for public worship in Tasmania. It has passed the secoud reading. The New York Herald says that it has paid upwards of 500,000 dollars for telegraphic news during the past fourteen years ; and last year its Atlantic Cable despatches amounted to £10,000.