TELEGRAMS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 1001, 19 November 1881, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

(from our own correspondents). Napier, Nov. 18. Judge Heale has gone to Wairoa to hold a sitting of the Native Land Court there. Auckland, Nov. 18. It is proposed to cultivate tea at Fiji, and the scheme is warmly supported here. Dunedin, Nov. 18. At the City Court John Gordon was committed for trial for fraudulent bankruptcy. Before filing he had £320 in stocks which he gave to a publican. Invercargill, Nov. 18. Mr. Shanks has retired from the contest for Mataura. Mr. Richardson and Captain McKenzie at Mataura last night, received a vote of confidence. The former said if he had been in the Assembly last year, he should have supported Mr. Hal!. PUNGAREHU, Nov. 17. The Waikato’s will be picked out, and sent by steamer to Mokau ; 51 native men w ere released yestejjlay, they not belonging to Wanganui. The women wept sorely, but more about their things, than their situation. I talked with a half-caste yesterday, who told me she had advised her people to return home but it was of no use. They firmly expect Te Whiti back. They say you have his body in gaol, but his spirit is with us. A coach was driven by Mr. Hall into Parihaka, for the first time yesterday. The A. C. Band played the Thames contingent out of camp yesterday, and only the Nelson, Canterbury, and Marlborough men remain ♦ The Wanganui prisoners were sent away from Parihaka this mornins for Opunake. Before leaving the Wanganui natives danced a haka vigorously. Pehira andressed them and told them to continue their opposition with a stout heart. The Taranaki’s are being arrested, 117 declined giving their names, and were handcuffed, and put on half rations. The arresting party entered the Pah this morning, and drafted out the men, women, and children belonging to the Ngatiawa tribe.

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