FEW ZKALAND TELEGRAMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 6096, 1 June 1881, Page 5

FEW ZKALAND TELEGRAMS.

[FROM OUR OWX COr.r.ESPOSDEST.S.I I THAMES, Tuesday. At Paeroa, yesterday, G. Clotworthy was fined £'20 for keeping spiritions and fermented liquors for sale without having a I license for the same. RUSSELL, Tuesday. It is blowing hard from the eastward, with rain. [PRESS ASSOCIATION'.] | HAWERA, Tuesday. Walter Sannard has been committed to take his trial at the Supreme Court, New Plymouth, on a charge of stealing a mare from a native named Poki. Charles Williams has received six months for stealing money from Wm. Shearer, at Manaia, on Queen's Birthday. ; Major Parris left here on Monday "for the purpose o,f liberating another batch of Maori prisoners. Tamatawa, chief of the Taiporohenui tribe, died suddenly at an advanced age. No chief on the coast was more respected. WELLINGTON, Thursday. During the month 15 declarations of in- j solvency were filed. Eighty-nine births and 29 deaths were registered, and 25 marriage certificates were issued during the month. The Post to-night states that the College Governors have borrowed £590 at S per cent, from Mr. Mackay, who was recently appointed principal of the College, and that the money will be expended in making the necessary repairs to the institution. The delegateii from the County Councils in the various parts of the colony meet here tomorrow to consider several questions relating to the working of local governing bodies. In consequence of the low depth of water in the reservoir, it has been decided to place tanks at several of the springs in the vicinity of the city, so that the main portion of the spring will flow into the tanks, and from the latter branch pipes will be led into the mains. NELSON, Tuesday. Mr. Levcstam addressed a crowded meeting of electors last night, and said the class to which he belonged would never be properly represented till it returned men from the masses. He claimed for their children as a right a liberal and secular education, but said the administration of the education system was too extravagant. On the land question, lie thought it butter to give land away, in order to make it productive. He vras opposed to the property tax and beer tax, : advocating income and a laud tax on a sliding scale with ad valorem duties. He advocated slight protection rather than bonuses. He would support a capitation tax. He thought modified Provincial Councils without power of legislation would give better local government. He applauded Sir George Grey's Liberal measures, but censured him for certain actions. He said the present Government were not Liberals, and did not deserve credit for economy, and charged them with being dishonest regarding the District Railway Bill. He was opposed to redistribution on population basis. He would support measures he believed to be good, but lacked confidence in the leaders on either side. He received a unanimous vote of thanks, with an addition expressing him a proper person to represent the constituency. Mr. J. C. Richmond, in the morning paper, says he did not roundly declare himself a socialist, but in common with the great Liberal party, he sympathised with the aims of the socialists, which he understood to be to secure to the working-man a fair share of the fruits of his labour, and mitigate as far as possible tke inequalities of his lot..

CHRISTCHURCH, Tuesday.

The Customs revenue for the month of May was £14,300 9s Id.

A number of persons were summoned for the property tax to-day, and judgment was given against them in each instance.

Mr. Montgomery addressed his constituents at Akaroa last night. A vote of thanks and confidence was passed to him. The vital statistics for May show—Births, 173; marriages, 36; and deaths, 51. The figures for the same month last year were— Births, 180; marriages, 36; and deaths, 61.

The statistics of the provincial district of Canterbury show a decrease in the yield as compared with the previous season of S4OO tons of potatces and 3,400,000 -bushels of oats.

Five hundred and sixty buelicls of barley, the property of Mr. R. S. Smith, of Sherwood, were destroyed by fire on Saturday, The origin of the lire nor the amount of insurance has yet been ascertained.

At the Magistrates' Court to-day, R. Richardson, for attempting to committ suicide by taking strychnine, was committed for trial at the Supreme Court.

A boy named John Shea, charged with firing a pistol in the public street, wag dismissed with a caution. The evidence was to the effect that the bullet from the pistol passed between two men walking along the street together. The agricultural statistics for the counties of Akaroa, Ashurst, and Selwyn are published to-day, and give the following averages :—Wheat, 23 bushels per acre; oats, 27 bushels per acre; barley, 25 bushels per acre ; potatoes, i tons per acre.

Mr. Thornton, engineer, has replied to Mr. O'Connor's report on the proposal for a West Coast .railway. He asserts that the latter is wrong in several vital points, and asserts that O'Connor's estimate of the cost is at least £500,000 too high. TIMARU, Tuesday. Mr. W. Beswick, late Acting-Chief Postmaster here, was presented to-day, on the eve of his departure for Westport, with a purse of fifty sovereigns as a mark of esteem on the part of the citizens. DUNEDESf, Tuesday. Walter Rice, whose conviction for embezzlement was quashed by the Appeal Court, was discharged from gaol to-day. Mr. Simpson, Captain Thomson, and Captain McGowan, have been considering the evidence to-day in regard to the s.s. Tararua. It is expected that the decision will be given to-morrow. The shares for allotment in the Waitahuna Copper Company were more than fully applied for. Nothing has been heard of the prisoner Ross, who escaped in the Botanical Gardens yesterday. The tenders of John Stuart, Dunedin, for two and three-quarter miles of the extension of the Ashburtou railway, has been accepted. The. amount is £1542. ■;Mr. Oliver authorises the statement that a:s far as ho knows the Government do not intend to delay carrying out the alteration in connection with the projected new railway station. The escaped prisoner Ross was brought back to gaol about Si o'clock to-night. He had been rusticating for a day up the Valley of Leith. The original sentence was only four months, and in the natural course of events he would have left the gaol this morning at 10 o'clock. Doubtless he has earned for himself an additional term of a few months. . The result of the inquiry into the accideut near Anderson Bay Road, on the Queen's Birthday, is that the pointsman is dismissed. Prince has purchased Mata for £800, and intends bringing him to New Zealand. The Licensed Victuallers object to thirtyfive applicants for new licenses on the ground ' of not wanted.

INVERCARGILL, Tuesday. Chas. Peterson was convicted at the R.M. Court to-day of the theft of a breachloadiiig guu from tlie luggage of the late Dr. Campbell, which was east ashore at the scene of the wreck of the s.s. Tararua. His counsel pleaded for a light sentence on the grennd that many people were uuder the impression that articles east up on the beach became the property of the tinders. The Bench sentenced the prisoner to two months' imprisonment with hard labour. The bodies of two males came ashore r.t Otara on Saturday. They were nearly nude, and quite unrecognisable. One of the bodies washed ashore at Otara was that of a man about 5 feet 11 inches, of medium build. His clothing consisted of light t.veed trousers, woollen drawers, lace -up boots without nails, and recently half-soled. There was no property or papers found on him. The other was that of a man 5 foot!) inches in height, rather stout build. It was entirely naked. Up to the present time, 71 bodies in all have been recovered.