NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 6052, 11 April 1881, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] COROMANDEL, Saturday. At the inquest on Edward Davis the verdict was fatty degeneration of the heart. He was buried this afternoon. There was a very large funeral party. [united press association. J HAWERA, Monday. Contagions disease is reported as prevailing at Parihaka, and that sixty deaths have occurred within a few days. It is: stated that the persons attacked only linger three days. A petition numerously signed "lsas been presented to the Patea County Council praying for a Road Board on the Waimate Plains. The Council refused to accede: The Chairman stated the reiusal to be a means of bringing the whole question of Local Government before Parliament. He believed that there were only three settlers on the Plains opposed to the' Road Board: Sixty signed in favour. The census returns show 120 people residing on the Plains, but a good many are Working road men. ,' : WELLINGTON, Saturday. At a crushing of the stone from the Albion. Company's claim at Terawhiti the gold was an average of half an ounce to the ton. The test was a very crude one, and no doubt under proper treatment the yield would be CHRISTCHURCH, Saturday. Mr. Redwood's Norseman and Dolphin, and Mr. Westmacott's Frailty, arrived yesterday for the great autumn race meeting. TIMARTJ, Sunday. The privileges for the Timaru races realised £301, exclusive of the Grand Stand and the totalisator. DUNEDIN, Saturday. Mr. Vincent Pyke has commenced to hold meetings through Central Otago on the land question. A meeting at the Clyde on Saturday resolved to petition Parliament to amend the land law, re the reletting of runs. Mr. Pyke said there were one million and a half acres in Vincent County alone held by twenty-one persons. Hamerton will probably join the Australasian Football team on their arrival here. Murray is not able to join. A progressive Lyceum sort of Freetheught Sunday-school was opened this afternoon under the auspices of the Freethought Association. Two hundred were present. BALCLUTHA, Monday. At a meeting of the Committee of the Clutha Agricultural and Pastoral Society last night, it was agreed to contribute £20 to the preliminary expenses of the Dunedin committee for export of frozen meat.