LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Patea Mail, Volume IV, Issue 406, 8 March 1879, Page 3

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

(Per Press Agency.) WESTPORT. March 7., Charles Sibree was brought up at the Police Court this morning, on warrant for the murder of Costeila in 1873. Sibree did not respond to the invitation of police to be present. Inspector said the investigation he had madeshowed notthe slightest grounds for believing statement of prisoner’s wife, upon which alone the man had been apprehended. The prisoner was discharged ... AUCKLAND, , March 7. Maori Parliament concludes to-day. amongst resolutions agreed to, was one not to return any more members to the House of Representatives, but to have a ' Maori Parliament instead. The next Parliament to be held on the site of Waitangi Treaty, and the following one at Kaipara.

sty —riotous system, of living,, in the course of time brought his fortune to a low ebb. Then tue vice of iritempi rancfj /to which he was addicted, gradually grew ‘'upon him, and the once brilliant writer and speaker-—the dusihng spor.ing man—the bon vi ant , and proverbially good fellow—was transformed into,a me:u wreck; the shadow of his former self. Curiously enough, wheiil’things were at . their worst with Mr Wakefield, the working men of Christchurch • city elected him as their representative in the General Assembly in 1870. . It was then hoped that Mr Wakefield would take a fresh departure ; but, alas 1 he did not do so. He fell gradually lower and lower ; he did,, not venture to'’‘stand at the next general election, and now, poor fellow, he has died in an almshouse in _ Canteibury. Such is the work 1 of drink—bf.he; destroyer, Mr Wakefield was a man -of high ability—he, was,a brilliant speaker, ..an excellent newspaper writer, and-an exceedingly well read man. We believe that he leaves a widow arid seveial children, but for many years he had been separated from his family.; We think That the State, and, indeed the people of New Zealand as u whole, ought to do something fer tile children of the clever, * the brilliant, the accomplished—and the utterly lost Edward Jerningham Wakefield.