LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 848, 30 July 1879, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[from our .own correspondent.] NEW PLYMOUTH: Tli is Day. Sixty-three Native prisoners were yesterday shipped aboard the Hinemoa, 38 being for Dunedin, and 28 for Wellington. Eight more political ploughmen were arrested at Hiurangi yesterday. They were ploughing on Bull's land. They were sentenced by the R.M. ' to two months' imprisonment in Dunedin gaol, and ordered to find sureties and keep the peace for twelve months. KUMARA. This Day. Thomas Mnrtagh, chemist, committed suicide witli strychnine yesterday. The cause is unknown. . AUCKLAND. This Day. The mail sftsamer JZealandia arrived yesterday. Tho news Bhe brings is mostly anticipated by cablegrams. Lord Loftus was a passenger He accepted the invitation of tho Mayor, and drove round yesterday through Auckland and suburbs, and was subsequently entertained at a banquet given by the leading citizens at the Northern Club. Joseph Herman, who was found dead in his house in Parnell, had stabbed himself to the heart with a large clasp knife. He must have gone about the deed in a Ve"ry deliberate manner, for not only had he secured the doors and wi.idows, but had also propped up on the table beside him a folding mirror at

such an angle as to command a view of his recumbent body. After the wound had been inflicted, too, he must have wiped the bloody knife on the handkerchief which he held in his hand, for it was found stained with gore while the blade of the knife was comparatively clean. The only noticeable effusion of blood was from the nostrils. He was a man of liberal education. Some Tasmanian Government Gazettes of 1873 in the house show that he was employed on a number of large public works, notably engineering, the survey of the Mersey and Deloraine railway, while other documents reveal the fact that he was engaged by the Mayor of Launceston to report upon the waterworks of hat city. He seems to have mede professional visits from England to most of continental countries, and to have been connected with largo undertakings in Canada and Brazil. It is conjectured that from Tasmania he went to Victoria, and thence to Auckland, where hif life has been a continued struggle with indigent troubles, certainly not being alleviated by his unsettled habits. At the Waste Lands Board, .the Crown Ranger's report of the Katikati No. 2 settlement was read. He wrote that a large area of land had been brought under cultivation, large and costly houses erected, roads formed, while, so far as the writer could judge, the settlers appeared to be content. Thirtyseven schedules were appended, which showed that £40,582 had been spent in improvements, and that of this sum £6,680 had been spent upon thirty -two buildings erected. Of 10,000 acres sold to Mr. Stewart, 6,508 acres were allotted, and 6,670 acres actually ocenppied. The settlers numbered 84 and 63 children, and the area of land under cultivation was 712| acres while ten miles of fencing was erected. The settlers possessed 178 cattle, 54 sheep, 57 horses 22 pigs. It was agreed by the members of the Board that the settlers had done wonderfully well, and the opinion was expressed that they were an industrous, and spirited body of people.