LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VII, Issue 1140, 6 October 1880, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[fkOM OUU OWN COItKKSPONDBNT. ] WELLINGTON. This Day. Mr. Fife, cliciriiHt, was finod ss, at the KM. Court- yesterday for selling a quantity of laudanum without entering l.li" milo in his Ijjolc. The Il.tiiiiah Brookfiekl is a complete wreck. The Cargo was sold for £65. DUNEDIN. This Day, Twenty-five Maori prisoners, including Wirernu Kingi Matakatea, the well-known Maori chief was taken from Dunedin gaol yesterday and forwarded by rail to Christchurch en route to Taranaki, where it is understood they v/ill be liberated. It is stated on good authority that the services of Inspector Mai laid will be dispensed Avith. Mr. Conyers learned first from newspaper telegrams the intimation

of his dismissal. The official letter on the subject reached him afterwards, "ivine him three months' notice. CHRISTCHUROH. This Day. Notice has been received that all the police inspectors in Canterbury and Westland, are to be dismissed after October 31st. . AUCKLAND. This Day. A number of passengers who arrived by the Waikato from London yesterday are men of means. They come to settle in the Colony. At the Supreme Court yesterday Joe, the New Hebrides native, pleaded guilty to the murder of Rees, before a jury was enipannelled. Judge llichmond explained to him through an interpreter that he could withdraw his plea when the jury was enipannelled. When this was done, prisoner again pleaded guilty, making a statement that he was under the influence of drink and the boys irritated him. He was sentenced to death. The unemployed agitation has entered upon a new phase. Garrard has been joined by a Victorian and Wellington man. They propose forming a labor union. Considerable changes are to be made in the Industrial Home and Naval Training School in consequence of the late inquiry. NAPIER. This Day. Hawke's Bay Jockey Club Spring Meeting was yesterday well attended. About 2,000 on the course. Weather fine and racing good. Hawke's Bay Guineas, of 105 soys. Rewi 1 Firefly 2 Primrose ... ... 3 Selling Hurdle Race, of 30 soys. Old Ireland 1 Scrip 2 Warrengate . . . ... 3 Old Ireland made all the running, and won as he liked. Spring Handicap, of 100 soys. Piscatorious... ... 1 Paramena ... ... 2 Mavis ... ... 3 Maiden Plate, of 50 soys. Loch Lomond ... 1 Florence ... ... 2 Venture ... ... 3 Flying Handicap, of 60 soys. Moanataiari and Pai'atnena a dead heat. Libeller 3 In the deciding! heat Moanatiari ] won in a canter by two lengths. This race was a complete boil over as Moanatairi was never thought of, but undoubtedly deserved to win. He ' was nmcli cheered.