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New Zealand Mail, Issue 662, 31 October 1884, Page 13

LATEST Telegraphic.

((UNITED press association. Gisborne, October 29.

A very influentially signed requisition was presented yesterday to Mr De Lautour, asking him to stand for the mayoralty. Captain Porter, the present mayor, headed the list, which was signed by nearly all the influential and business men in Gisborne. To-day Mr De Lautour has given a favorable reply. Mr T. J. Dickson, the well known hotelkeeper, has announced his intention of coming forward to contest a seat on the board constituted under the Gisborne Harbor Bill, which has just passed both Houses. The seats are likely to be very keenly contested. A large number of candidates are coming forward for seats in the County Council. The only member returned unopposed has been Gannon, who stood for the Bay of Islands at the last election in the Liberal interest. The second sitting of the Gisborne Parliamentary Union was held on Monday night, when a Bill, introduced by the Premier (Mr De Lautour), for the resumption of Maori lands was carried by a majority of nine. There was a large number of ladies present. The debate was very lively. Wool is coming in freely. About 600 bales are now stored in Gisborne.

Two schedules were filed yesterday. In one case Mrs Smith, boardinghouse-keeper, has £IOO liabilities. Her only assets consist of jewellery and £lO 6s. In the other instance (Peni Heihei, a native) the assets consist of one horse valued at £9 ; liabilities, £lB7. Insolvencies are much more frequent lately, though none are for very large amounts.' Por the last six or seven months the insolvencies averaged only one per month. Mrs Gately, who attempted to drown herself at Ormond last Saturday, was to-day committed for trial. She appeared very ill in Court, and asked to be sent to the hospital. A man named William Moylan, was to-day fined £B, in default three months’ imprisonment, for indecent language whilst to some extent under the influence of liquor. Mr Booth, R.M., said it was one of the worst cases of the kind that had ever come before him.

A native youth named Henare Tnrangi has been committed for trial for stealing a mare, which he attempted to sell to the Wairoa ferryman. Another native youth, Mohi Rongoi, was charged with stealing a £lO note, but was i emanded.

The Rev. A. O. Williams, clergyman of the Church of England in charge of the Maori College at Gisborne, occupied the pulpit of the Wesleyan Church last Sunday, and conducted divine service in the absence of the Rev. Mr Spence. Auckland, October 29.

The charges of being absent without leave agaiDst the twenty-four seamen on strike were withdrawn to-day by the Northern Steamship Company. The inducement was a cheque for £IOO, paid to the company by the treasurer of the Seamen’s Union as recompense for any loss caused by the strike. The charge against six seamen from the Thomas Russell was adjourned till November 3. John Elgin has been committed for trial for false pretences on Messrs McArthur and Co.

Before leaving Auckland, Tawhiao presented Andrew Waiapo and Paul Tuahere, as representatives of the Kaipara tribes, with gifts, as signs of the peace which existed between their people and the Waikatos, between whom in former times enmity existed. Tawhiao’s present to Waiapo was a gold watch and chain. Tawhiao expressed a hope that the recipient would attend to his work as a solicitor, which he has lately entered upon in an Auckland office.

Blenheim, October 29.

The spring show of the Marlborough Agricultural and Pastoral Association was held today. The weather was dull and showery in the morning, but the afternoon was fine. Merinos and long wools are not numerous, but exceptionally fine and valuable. There was a large attendance of the general public.

Dunedin, October 29

Messrs J. C. Miller and Richard Phelan have been awarded the Humane Society’s silver medal for their rescue of the High School boys last summer from Bird Rock, off the Ocean Beach, whither they had gone Beafowl nesting. The Rev. W. Bannerman, Presbyterian clergyman, who is resigning his pastorate in Clutha after thirty years’ service, has been presented with £l3l 10s by his congregation. The rev. gentleman had his leg badly broken by a buggy accident sometime ago. Invebcargill, October 29.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company have sold Messrs Tapper and Carmicbale’s Toitois estate of 14,000 acres, together with BCOO sheep, 200 cattle, and 27 horses, and the whole of the farming plant, to Messrs G. A. and P. Mein, of Victoria, for £50,000.

A correspondent of the evening paper asserts that several cases of highway robbery, one with violence, have occurred in luvercargill during the past few weeks, and further bints that the police are aware of this and appear desirous of hushing them up. The police deny all knowledge of such occurrences. Nelson, October 29.

Dr Leggatt is progressing favorably. The bullet grazed his waiatcoast, and carried away a small portion where it was buttoned, also the pendant of his watch chain. At the Supreme Court, Charles Edward Bunny, solicitor, charged with fraudulent conversion of money, was discharged. The Judge ruled on a certain point that there was no case for the jury. In one charge of larceny against Hugh Jones, of Westport, a verdict of not guilty was returned. There are several other charges against the accused. The verdict at the inquest on Thomas Austin, drowned in the Motueka River, was found drowned.

Mr John Kerr’s noted trotting American mare has died while foaling. Chbistchursh, October 29.

The Hospital Board has decided to make an effort to erect an infectious diseases hospital at a cost of about £IOOO, half to be raised by subscription aud half the board hope to obtain from Government.

The question whether convent and Other RomaD Catholic Church properties are liable to be rated by the Drainage Board will be heard before Mr Beetham, R.M., to morrow. The board insists on rating them, notwithstanding that the Property Tax Commissioner desired it to remove these properties from the valuation roll.

The cow with five horns arrived at Lyttelton this morning as part of Stevens and Abbott’s live curio exhibition. As the animal was from Sydney, the Inspector of Cattle ordered her to quarantine for forty-two days, much to the amazement of the showmen, who had certificates of health from Australia,

Simpson’s butcher Bhop, at the corner of Barbadoes and Kilmore-streets, was burned down to-night. The insurances are not known. The cause is supposed to be accidental.

Carterton, October 29,

Mr John Pike, on his way from Te Whiti this morning, found a man named George Wright, and the horse he was driving, drowned in the Ruamahunga River. Wright was groom for Mr Isaac Pike, aud had been to Carterton with the trap, which was fouud bottom upwards at the entrance to the river, the shafts resting on Wright’s leg. It is supposed that Wright was stunned through the trap capsizing, as there is only about two feet of water where he lies.