TELEGRAPHIC.

Colonist, Volume XXII, Issue 2761, 25 September 1880, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC.

[BY BEUTER'S CABLEGRAMS.} • Lqndon, September 21: Adelaide; wheat ex warehoas» 465. j ■ September 22. The balance of the Victorian four and a half per cent-* loan was issued to-day. New Zealand securities are falling to-day. -Quotations are, Five par cent loan 102J; ! Five percent, 1889, loan .101$. ; Intelligence's b«en received that a seriona has occurred at a.place called Mama'tilinf India, by which eleven officers "and 24 men of tho British regiment stationed there j were Skilled. .... < The cricket match, Australians versus (eighteen of Bradford, was resumed to-day. ■ The home team resumed their second innings, but, owing to the inclemency of the weather, , play iwas stopped -when they had put together ; 195 for nine wickets, and the match was drawn. ■ , . September 23. .'. Obituary: G. F. Grace, the1 cricketer.- ; i • Six hundred Volunteers ar« embarking for Capetown. , Bartholomew Hilarehas been appointed I the French Minister for Foreign Affaira. It now transpires that the report received last week that the Albanians had attacked 1 and expelled the Turkish garrison is devoid of "foundation. ] _ ' Pekin, September 23. ■■ i Serious riot 3 have taken place at Canton. The ; Catholic' mission station was attacked and several persons were injured. Further intelligence from Canton regarding the riots which have taken place.there states that prder was not restored until the military had been called out and attacked the-rioters., | Sydney/ September 24.' : Commercial quotations are—^Brandy, bulk, quarters 10a 6d. Kerosene, diamond^ per gallon, Is 7d ; Devoe's Is Bd. Patna rice £21 per ton. Wheat,; none in market. 'New Zealand oata per 401 ba, Is lOd to 2s. Maize, per 6jOlbs, 2s 4d to 2a 6d. Candles, D. R. J.'b, 7fd£erlb. Ti^e Sydney Evening News hai betn fined £250 for contempt of Court. The Chief Justice delivered judgment most elaborately. A notice of appeal was given against the decision, but the Chief Justice .refused to grant it. He said the defendants must petition the Judibial Committee of the Privy Counoil. ;■,:■:.;■;;' ..">:■.'". ■.■■>> ■> ':■ •-• [United Pbe?s Association Telegrams.] "■•■ ; New Plymouth, September 24 Aft the trial..,.off the native prisoners, <Mr Halse,' the counsel for the prisoners/ took exception to the indictment, as it stated;- that the qffenoea the prisoners were charged with were; committed on the boundaries of the confiscated land as defined by the schedule of the Act, and no fourth boundary was given in the description) only three sides being defined. His Honor said that he could not at that I stage say that tho boundaries were incomplete, as it was quite; possible for three lines! to form a complete boundary. He would, however, take a note of the objection. After .the evidence had been taken defining the boundaries of the confiscated land, also of tho nature of the offanoes committed by tho natives, his Honor summed up and the jury retirbd to consider thair verdict, and after remaining absent about three quarters of an hours returned into Court with a verdict of Guilty. His Honor in sentencing tho prisoners to three years' imprisonment in Lyttelton gaol and to find security in the amount of £50 each to keep the peace for six months after the expiration of their sentenoe, .also told the interpreter to tell the prisoners thatj tha length of their sentence depended upon how the natives they left behind behaved themselves. "Mr Halse, the counsel for the Maori prisoners, will appeal to the Supreme Court, on four; points which which were raised at the trialj namely (1.) that the indjotmeut was bad, owing to the uncertainty of fche description of the locality; (2.) that the West Coast Settlement Aot, 1880, is ultra, vires; (3.) that no plan of the highway notified by the Government under the Aot, was deposited in the Survey office; and (4.) that tha District Court had no jurisdiction to try an offence, when the punishment inflicted may be a life one.; Xt r .'■■'' '".;" ■■' ' ', y> ; ' Wellington, September 24. The Town Clerk has written to the Commissioner of Poliue, oalling fop a strict enquiry into the alleged ilUtrea.tmeot of a prisoner by two constables. At a Cabinet meeting it wai deoided to throw open fop settlement the blocks around Ohawe, on thaiWaimate Plains. I # AuoKLAND,(September 24. The railway employees are petitioning to be plaoed on the same footing as regards pay, as their fellow laborers in tha Southern part of the Colony. The leader of the French vinegrowerg has chosen- a fine blook of land at Northern Wairoa, for their future operations. . Ai number of the Armed Constabulary havrf been ordered to Tarahaki. -':■ ' " ' ! ' Dunb'din, September 24. Pirangi, agtd 60, one of the Native prk , goners, died in gaol last nigbfc from consumption^ ;■'.'•.,-.■"■ .'■ ■ ."■ ; / ■••;■•., " ■ ; . <-, Leo Gijyhag heen oommitted for trial for the imurd'e? qf Mrs Toung. i Oamaett, September 24. , At the Magiitrate'i Court the Eeturning Offiper for one of the Borough wards ; was sued for hot aooepting the nomination of a candidate at tho election of Councillor, the ground \ of objeotion being that the qualification of the candidate was not of the usual value of' £25. Since,, then it has been discovered that this qualification had bsen withdrawn by Aot of Parliament, and defendant was therefore fined £13 and 53i oost. !\ : .