TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1059, 11 September 1879, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(PEE. PRESS ASSOCIATION). WELLINGTON. September 10. I The Hon. Wi Parata and several other natives have left to-day for Parihaka, to attend tlie monthly meeting there on the 18th inst. ' It is believed they will do their best to persuade Te Whiti to discontinue the meetings of Maoris, and further acts of rebellion. CHBISTCHURCH. September 10. This morning a pigeon belonging to Mr. Earnshaw flew from Dunedin to Glrns tchurch in five hours and one minute. September 11. John Fitzgerald is charged with stealing jewellery from William Kennell, also LG from William Pratt, in July. A mysterious robbery occurred at the Governor Browne Hotel, which was never traced. On searching the prisoner now in charge for stealing money, the police found a clue to the jewel affair. The case is remanded. AUCKLAND. September 10 In the Supremo Court, the appeal case Graham v. D. A. Toie was heard. The information chai'ged appellant with being unlawfully in the occupation of certain lauds in the liotorua district, for the pur- i cliasc or acquisition of which money had been previously advanced by the Government, and no identification to that effect gazetted. Judge Gillies, after reviewing several other points raised by appellant, said that the Act of 1878 did not render persons unlawfully occupying notified native lands liable to the penalties to which the unauthorised occupation of Crown lands was subject. If the Legislature intended to re-enact the Native Land Purchase Ordinance, more definite language ought to have been used. The

appeal would be allowed, and the conviction in tho court below quashed. Costs were granted to the appellant. September 11. A number of men were brought up before the Magistrate this morning for creating a disturbance at yesterday's elections. All the cases were dismissed except those of one man, who was fined 20s, and another 40s. 'The official declaration of the poll gave the same figures as the declaration of yesterday. Only 2500 out of 4000 voted. GRAHAMSTOWX. September 10. The native meeting is ttill going on. The whole of the witnesses are not yet examined, and after this part of the proceedings is over the discussion of the verdict is expected to consume another day at least. The meeting is degenerating into a debate upon the title to the lands, and the question of ancestry (going back 300 years) is coming up for discussion. The main question (the shooting) seems to be forgotten. There is little prospect of anything bSing deciced before Saturday next. NAPIER. September 10. Mr. R. P. Giffard, an old Hawke's Bay settler, brother to the Solicitor-General of England, and a relative of Baron Giffard, dropped down dead to-day, on his road home from Clive, after recording his vote there. The body was picked up and taken to the Farndon Hotel. It was not known that he was dead then, and Dr. Hitchings being in a train that was passing at the time, it was stopped, and the body examined, when it was ascertained that life was extinct. The cause of death is supposed to have been apoplexy, but deceased had been drinking heavily for some time.