TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 6694, 30 September 1882, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(united press association.) Auckland, September 29.

The infantjson of Samuel Rogers, of Te Awamutu, has been poisoned by eating tutu terries. A man named John Ryan, who had got Whangarei settlers to advance small sums of money to him, claiming to have found a payable goldfield at Hikuranga, has been sentenced to two months’ imprisonment for obtaining money under false pretences. At the conversazione in the Choral Hall, in aid of the building fund of St. Andrew’s Church, 1800 persona were present. The Hon. T. Dick, Colonial Secretary, was one of the speakers. A young man who arrived by the Rotorua from Oamaru, named Blackledge, is missing. He had been drinking, and expressed his intention of committing suicide. John Richard, an old identity, has been found dead in his bed. An inquest will be held. From Te Aroha Special Settlement Block comes the information that many of the settlers lately brought out are dissatisfied. Some of them are leaving. They are mostly strong able-bodied men of the laboring class, and few with any money. They say they were led to believe that the wages they would get were considerably higher than they find they can obtain. Those engaged in swamping and road-making are getting 5s a day. Wanganui, September 29.

Hori Tauri, chief of Taupo, refused to accompany Mr Bryce, Native Minister, but will take Mr J. B. Browne, O.E. of Wellington, through the territory in connection with the Central Railway, and opening up the interior. Christchurch, September 29.

Nor’-west. weather has been prevailing for the last two days to the great discomfort of everyone. The streets are thick with dust iu every direction, the result of the roadways being cut up to lay the drainage pipes, and the dust is an emphatic nuisance, and likely to be so all the summer.

The whole of the machinery for the Meat Freezing Company has now been landed. The Christchurch Southern District State school has been closed for a week, owing to an outbreak of diphtheria. Nelson, September 29.

A Juvenile Lodge of Oddfellows in ■ connection with the Nelson Lodge of 1.0.0. F., M.U., was’ opened this evening, with a very fair membership roll. Bro. Greathead, an Oddfellow of 45 years’ standing, and who assisted in founding the Nelson Lodge in 1812, took part io the proceedings. A telegram from Collingwood, by the correspondent of the “ Colonist,” states that the report from Government authority gives 16oz Ifidwt 12gr, and 560 z 14dwt llgr, respectively, on two lota, of quarts from one of the new claims at West Wanganui. Colonel Reader arrived here to-day, and has sent two of the Armed Constabulary force to assist Mr Ward in the charge of Te Whiti and Tohu. It is probable the Natives will be removed to town from their solitary residence on the Wakapuaka-road. Napiek, September _29. Resolutions passed at a special ’ meeting of the Borough Council last night will have the effect of saving salaries to the amount of £628 per year. Most of the reductions come into force in January next. Dunedin, September 29.

The candidates for the Dunedin Mayoralty are Councillors Thompson, A. H. Ross, and W. P. Street, News has been received that a detachment of the Salvation Army for service in New Zealand is on its way out from London, per Orient steamer Putosi. At the Police Court to-day, James Hartley was charged with stealing • £2o' from the pockets of Alexander Leckie at the Hunt Club Races. The evidence showed that Hartley and two others, named Madden and Mason, already committed for the same offence, shepherded the prosecutor, and eventually one of them put his hand in prosecutor’s pockets and took out the sum named. Hartley was committed for trial. ■ I Oamaru, 1 September 29. • Mr McGregor, Engineer to the Harbor Board, stated at a meeting of the Board to-day that an application would probably be received for leave, to erect refrigerating stores near the breakwater, Te Aroha, September 29. The reef on the boundary of Bonanza Claim, uncovered a week ago by prospectors, was again broken down to-day, and tbe show of gold was even better than before. A specimen taken out by the “ Mail ’’ reporter goes to Auckland to-morrow in charge of Mr Cliffe, who was on the hill soon after it was broken out.