LATEST SOUTHERN TELEGRAMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume VII, Issue 1846, 14 December 1869, Page 4

LATEST SOUTHERN TELEGRAMS.

Wellington, December 9. who destroyed the l.rignnoraef.rical station, Manawatu, h>is bsan fined twenty-five poun-s, or imprisonment in default of paymont. Dr. Hectir loaves for Napier to-morrow by the s.s. "Wellington, in order to visit the Knimanswa. Nelsos, December 9. The land sales at Wangapeta are still unsettled. The diggers are standing out, and refuse to allow the survey to go on. Warden Broad sent surveyors, -»ho were stopped bv ths miners and pushed back by one IToblo. A warrant was is3aed for his apprehension, on a charge of assaulting the surveyor, and the police went to apprehend him ; but Noble was protected by the digger?, and the police had to return as they went. Ko violence was offered, but the miners express iheir determination to hoid the ground. Mr. Dorainett, Chief Land Commissioner, hue been by the General Government to enquire as to the matters set forth in a petition signud by 700 miners and other inhabitants, as to the validity of the sales of land recently made, and whether the eaid land ia within the proclaimed boundary of the South West goldfield. Tho state of affairs is considered critical, and, meantime, the progress of the place is arrested.