N.Z. TELEGRAMS

New Zealand Times, Volume LIV, Issue 9887, 19 April 1893, Page 2

N.Z. TELEGRAMS

(PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Napikh, April 18. A snake of a venomous variety was landed in a case of bananas, and was found and killed when tbo oaaa was ucpuoked in a fruiterer’a shop. Westport April IS. Mr P. Kitoon, proprietor and editor of the Charleston Herald, d'ed to-day of parallels, after a abort illness. He loaves a widow and live children. lathe Resident Magistrate*!! Court to'day judgment was given against the Union gteamshlp Company for £81) and costs for breaking a mortising machine by carelessly removing it from a truck on the wharf. Notice of appeal was given. Mr R. Reeves, M.H.R , a member of the local Harbour Board, has sued for £72 odd for travelling expenses, being at the rate of one guinea per d*y for nine day* eaob month, while travelling from and to Nolscn to attend the board’s meetings. Judgment was given for £C9, or one pound a day, exclusive of* coach fares. The action was brought in consequence of the Audit Office having refused to pass any amount except coach faro. Mr Guinness, M.H.U., appeared for the plaintiff. Gisborne, April 18.

A gruesome discovery was made this morniug by a gardener who was digging a plot close to town. From a small space, two yards In circumference and 18 inches deep, he unearthed no fewer than nine skulls, one thigh bone, a pelvis and several other bones in a rather decayed state.; The skulls were piled together immediately under a grape vine, which grew up the side of an old house that used to stand there. Several of them were remarkably well preserved, others are somewhat decayed. Two or three aro of large eize, others appear to be those of ft males or children. The teeth are in duo condition, which goes to show that the remains are those of Natives. It is thought that they may have been collected by Europeans from some burying ground, and planted under the grapo vine. Hawera, April 18.

It (a reported here that the Government have lodged an appeal against the decision of the Land Board in the Heady and Pease case.

Mr McGuiro addressed his constituents at Stratford last evening, and received a vote of thanks and confidence. The only thing new in the ipoech was that he ex* pressed doubt as to the advancement of the co-operative system, and condemned the Government for refusing to adopt the scheme which be' had lately promoted for dealing with the Taranaki harbour difficulty. Dunedin, April 18.

Mining returns.—The Roxburgh Amalgamated hail 7l<;z IDiwt for 20 days ; the Island Block Extended bad SSjz for the week.