NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 6270, 21 December 1881, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

(.FROM OUK OWN" CORRESPONDENT.J CHRISTCHURCH, Tuesday. ■; A correspondent writes to the Times "re*' garding the foolish Association telegram * about Tongariro, pointing out that not only does Dr. Hochstetter gives an account of its - ascent by Dyson and Bidwill many years i ago, but that the 'writer himself was one o£ j ' a party who ascended it in 1870.' He.also' mentioned other ascents since then, and says ' that so far from the natives being opposed to the asccnt of the mountain by strangers, : he went np while fighting was going on in the district. • [PRESS ASSOCIATION.] ■" WELLINGTON, Tuesday. .1 Carey's juvenile "Pirates " opened her#", last and the performance was , pro- ' nounced a success. " : : The Government have decided to give fa-1 cilities for holding a Native Land Court at Mokau, the natives in that district and Kawhia being anxious to pass their ■ land l through the Court.' . • Information has been received from', Reief- " ton that the Golden Fleece Company. hava ; struck a reef four feet thick, showing gold.', 1 " Heavy rains yesterday and' this morning 7 caused a flood in the Hutt river. Several, gardens on the river bank'are under water to a depth of several inches. . The Government have received a telegram " from Parihaka to the effect that the natives . had their feast on the 17th inst..' There was no speaking. It is understood that no * formal native meetings, have been held " anywhere up the coast, and it is stated that ; Mr. Bryce has met most of the Wanganui natives who were sent from Parihaka to . their own homes, and that they appeared very cheerful. Two Wanganui chiefs, who had been known to be most surly amongst, the natives at Parihaka, appear to have got over their pouri. HOKITIKA, Tuesday. For Humphrey's Gully Company's issue Ot twenty thousand sluuca, tKirty thmmand ; have already been applied for. The list j closes on the 21st instant. CHRISTCHURCH, Tuesday. \ ! The wool sales continued to-day. There was a scarcity of buyers, and a drop had to be submitted to in some cases of ,£d to Id per lb. About 2700 bales were catalogued ; by the various brokers. •' Heavy rain fell for about seven hours this morning. It will be an immense boon to , the farmers, as all the crops and grass had began to suffer severely from drought. The weather remains threatening. OAMARU, Tuesday. Matthew Mcßady, for attempting to com mit suicide by opening a vein in his arm, was brought up to-day charged with the offence, and remanded till to-morrow.

John Wilson was charged at the Resident ' Magistrate's Court to-day with committing ' a breach of the Gaming and Lotteries Act' by holding sweeps on the racecourse. The police applied for the infliction of a nominal * penalty only, as the man was poor. It was proved that the defendant had persisted in drawing the sweeps after having b*ta cautioned by the police. The counsel for the defendant offered no evidence, but characterised the Act as iniquitous. It had legalised the totalisator, but debarred the people from holding a harmless half-crown sweep. The Magistrate, in consideration of the circumstances, inflicted a nominal penalty of ss, without costs. DUNEDHf, Tuesday. The Star states that the English cricketers have definitively decided not to play at Invercargill. The Kaitangata and Shag Point Coal Company have had tenders accepted for the supply of coal to the railways in Dunedin. INViSRC ARGILL, Tuesday. The half-yearly sitting of the Supreme Court opened to-day. Thomas Kennedy, for stealing Masonic jewellery to the total value of £20, was sentenced to six months' hard labour.