TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume II, Issue 580, 12 March 1878, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

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WELLINGTON. March 11. Tt is stated that, the Government will bring down the measures on which they intend to stand or fall, within a fortnight after the meeting of the Assembly. Those measures will provide for a change in the representation of the Colony—a change in incidence of taxation, and manhood suffrage. From information received by the police, it would appear that a well-orga-nised system of horse stealing has been going on in this district for some time past, the horses being shipped away as soon as brought in. Neil and Buckridge, recently arrested on suspicion, were brought up to-day on two separate charges. j After taking a good deal of evidence the prisoners were committed for trial on both charges. A person named Jacobson, alias Montarieff, has been committed for trial on a charge of obtaining money by means of valueless cheques. He passed himself off as a Russian count, who was making an official tour of the Colony to report upon ir. An extraordinary death occurred at the Theatre Royal Hotel on Sunday night. Just as the lodgers were about to retire to bed, one of them fell from the oval aperture'in the upstairs floor on to his head on the billiard table below, and only lived a few hours. He was sober, and the moment before was chatting pleasantly with the others. He was a young man named James Abeam. AUCKLAND. March 11. The Italian man-of-war, Christofero C ilombo, has sailed for South America. At a Cabinet meeting this morning of Messrs. Sheehan and H>>ni Nahe, Mr. Swanson was present. Mr. Stout's appointment as Attorney-General was postponed until to-morrow, for the preparation of the necessary documents.^ Messrs. Sheehan and Honi Nahe, accompanied by a numerous suite, proceeded to Hamilton by special train to attend a banquet to the sons of old colonists. _ A large bush fire in Northern Wairoa has destroyed hundreds of thousands of feet of timber. The electric light was exhibited by the Italian war ship" on Saturday night, illuminating the harbour for a distance of a mile, and within that newspaper print was easily readable.

CHRISTCHURCFi. March VI. Twenty-three city water-supply schemes have been received by the City Council. They propose to obtain water from the folio wine; 'sources, viz. : 4 from artesian wells. 7 from the river Waimakariri, 7 from Heathcote, 3 from the Avon, 1 from Okuru, and 1 from Hawins. The tramway scheme for Christchurch and the .suburbs promises to be a success. The suburban municipalities and road boards will guarantee the company a 21 vears' lease, and the City Council are favorable to granting a lease for 14 years.

e.u.-in.i.uiaii-' »» -i. March 11. Harapipi, a well-known Ma/'i-i chief, and a man of great influence, died at his settlement. Piako, on Saturday. Deceased was 50 vears of age. ef NELSON. March 11. Mrs. Daley, the wife of John Daley, Sub-Inspector of Sheep, and daughter of Mr. Disher, of the Trafalgar Hotel, cut her throat this morning. She has been in a very depressed state for sonic months. * NEW PLYMOUTH. March 11. The Natives between Parihiki and Oi.unake have 300 acres of wheat, which was planted by the Taranaki tribe. They ■uave boivht " two threshing machines. Kaui, an influential chief, owning one of them, states that it is the intention of the tribe to go into wheat culture on an extensive scale. He says liirherto it has been only night, and they could not, s e. but now* that it is light, they intendto devote their attention to those peaceful occupations which they were engaged in before the war. Kanui wishes this to be_ distributed throughout the Colony, that Europeans may know the peaceful condition of the Natives in T.iranaki.