LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VII, Issue 1046, 22 June 1880, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

♦ [from our own correspondent.] NAPIER. This Day. Some of the parties who have been out prospecting in the Mohaka district have returned to Napier, and report that though there are indications of gold-bearing quarte, they found no stone containing the precious metal. There are, however, a good many persons who are still sanguine on the matter. WELLINGTON. This Day. It is stated that the departure of the Native Minister in the Hinemoa, on Sunday evening to Opunake was occasioned by information received that the Natives had fenced off the road leading to private property. If it should turn out that natives have done this in defiance of the Government, the Native Minister will remove them by force of arms if necessary ; but if it is their own land they have fenced off, he will endeavor to arrange the matter amicably. A large number of Corporation laborers have been discharged, there being no more work for them, and a further number will be discharged at the end of the present week. A petition of working men ia in course of signature requesting the American Government to grant then free passages to the United States. AUCKLAND. This Day. A musical entertainment was given last night at the Pitt-street Wesleyan school-room, by the Maori students at Three Kings Training Institution. All the songs and i*ecitations were given [in English, as also a translation of Maori lament. The aftatr was very successful, and largely attended. A soiree was held last evening at the Young Men's Christian Association Rooms, by the young ladies attending Miss Laura Smith workwomen's reading and coffee rooms. Miss Laura Smith presided, and described her labors in Mildmay Park Deconesses Institution, Isling* ton. No gentlemen were permitted to be present. There was a good attendance at a meeting of teachers held last evening. A resolution was carried approving of the principle of a Teacher's Pension Bill but not the details, which are declared to be obscure and ought to be revised. JohnFrazer and Edward Welch, were yesterday committed for trial on a charge of forging and uttering a deed of conveyance, purporting to be signed by George Moore, deceased. NELSON. This Day. In the Supreme Court, the Grand Jury returned a true bill against Acton Adams, M.H.R., for perjury. The case will be tried on Friday by special jury. BLENHEIM. This Day. The business of N. Edwards <fc Co., has been purchased by Sharp and Pickering, of this city. CHRISTOHURCH. This Day. At the KM. Court, yesterday, a publican was fined £10 for allowing a " shilling in and the winner shout " at his house. The Court expressed a determination to put down the practice. The schooner, Clematis, which collided with the Rotorua the other day, was rather severely injured, and had she been struok a little further I forward she would have been sunk. | The master states that the Capt. of I the steamer told him it was tho , schooner's fault. She should have got out of the way. TIMARU. This Day. At the R.M. Court yesterday, George Gleeson was seutenced to seven days hard labor for playing under and over at the race course. DUNEDIN. This Day. The Standard Insurance Company have received an account of the wreck

of the steamer "Wanganui, at Clarence Heads. She struck on a reef and sank. All lives were saved except two of the crew. She was formerly of New Zealand, and was insured for £3,500 but was valued at £6.000.