TELEGRAMS

Colonist, Volume XXXII, Issue 5522, 17 June 1889, Page 3

TELEGRAMS

muaited Jewess Association;'" CHRISTCHUECH, ' } JunelC. DEATH OP COLONEL BRETT. Colonel Brett, M.L.C., disd to-day M two o'olook. Though he had b§e?i ailing for some time, his .death'was unexpected, aa ho; was able to take daily exercise. ; Napier, ' •:".-. June. 16. Karauria is. still alive, but is in great aapny and is sinking fast.. He is now partially paraded, and tho #odors say that he cannot, possibly live.. .He is a well made, intelligent, and well educated young men, and is. twenty-. six years of age. His young wife is with hiss, and has obstinately refused all nourishment since h» was shot. Last night Kera*ria Bent a request that tho ' Herald's' representative might visit him this morning, as h» wished to givo an explanation as to y/by ho went on to the land, but on a reporter going up, he was in too much pain ts speak oonneotadly. . ;r I Captain Preece went to Omaha yeaterdsy, when the natives on his advioe gave, up ail their /ire-arms, about forty staad ia all; Seats of the rifles beiag leaded. A FINE OP ,£385. A case of uiusual: interest has feeen hear A in tho R.M, Court, in connection-with tba Property Tax erueade which has recently been uadettaken by the Department.' ia Hawke's Bay. Mr 'Nairn, riiahelder,' was prosecuted under Clause 113 of the Property Tax_*ot for making a false retura relativ• co his property. The valuation sent in was at the rate of £2 10s per acre, while the Can. missioner's valuation was £i per acre. Mr Nairn's defence was that his manager (since dead) made out the return ; that Mr Nana signed it without examining it; that though he might bo liable for negligence or carelessness under Clause 116 of the Act, he was not liable te the. crushing penaltits provided ia Clause 113 ; and that he thought the property had been returned at £3 an acre, which he oonsidered a fair value. The Reuideat Magistrate fined Mr Vairn three hundred 'arid and thirty-five pounds, being the least fine whioh can be imposed, but stated that :he would recommend the Governor to retime the fine under Clause US of the Act. Several Salvationists wro yesterday fined nominal penalties for obstruatiag a footpath at Hastings. John Alexander Snf^'j, one of the oldest residents in Hawke's L^y, died to-day, aged 76. He wis formerly a member of various local bodies, and always took a great .interest in hospital and charitable aid matters, indeed the fine new hospital on the hill was built almost entirely through his exertions. " A tobacconist named 'Hill was sen fenced to four days' imprisonment for being illegally on the promisee at the Maori' Girls' Boerdiig School. He went at night to see a firl'thert,. bio letters were intercepted, and the police^ f?t a watch for him with the abav« result. DEATH OP THE MAORI VICTIM. Monday, 1.50 a.m Taranga Karauria died at the hospital, shortly after five o'cleele< last nightt The" inquest commences this morning. HOKITIKA. Jane 11. A GOOD YIEIJ). The sold yield at Weiao eonUaaee umttki

iWy foo£ A paity of three men washed up, ■ frt.ttofM Ma of £5 8b per day each. >, The>We»tii«cli dear and fine, with very cold, ■« lmfsj nighti. The waterracea are nearly all it j whiU the ice is bo thiok that in many places it does not melt, though exposed to the sun's »yi all day. AUCKLAND, June 15. The telegraph office, a store, and an hotel , at Omapere, Bay of Wands, were totally destroyed by file last night. No particulars are yet to hand. The premises were insured, Rod the lessee of the hotel (B. <*. Power) had hi* stock protected by a pol«°y of ,£ ™o \ .. , The Board of Ednoation have decided that two of their scholarships may, if holders de. sire, be tenable at Lincoln Agricultural Colege, Canterbury, J A discovery of coal neat Himua is rtporta*. WELLINGTON, Jane 16. ■Further delay is likely to he experienced before the City is lit up with electricity. "When the contractors applied for a ten inch fcipe from the main water supply, the Council, refused to grant more then a six inch pipe. A trial of light was made a few days ago, and lit wa3 found that the turbine was unable to drive the dynamo so as to gite a brilliant light throughout the city, although there was no difficulty in effectively illuminating the portions within whioh experiments had been previously made. The Council have now decided to allow a 12 inch pipe to he laid dowo, but it is expected that anothei fortnight will elapse before the city is lighted. , yuite recently Captiin Sommerville, Execntive Officer of the New Zealand Rifle Association, has issued a ciroular to members of the Oounoil of that body, inviting an expression of opinion on the question whether members of Rifle Oluba should be allowed all the privileges of Volunteers, and especially as to their competing for the Champion Belt, Captain Collins, Treasurer of the Association, and Volunteer BalliDger, local representatives on the Council, called a meeting, at whioh the whole matter was folly discussed. The feeling of the meeting was that every inducement should be given to members of Eifle €lubs to join the Association, but that they should be debarred irom winning the belt, which should be purely » Volunteer matter. A resolution, proposed by Captain Collins, " That members of Eifle Clubs throughout I tb« Colony shall be allowed to [compete in all matches except the Grand Aggregate Cham-, won Match," was carried, with one dissentient. The resolution to allow former members of the Association who became members of any Kiflo Club to compete with full privileges, was lost, as was also the proposition of allowing Rifle Clubs to compete in team matches. The meeting made several suggestions for the consideration of the Council—the retention of the final stage m^tch in the programme; j the nse of the Martini-Henry rifle at the next meeting; and that members of the Permanent Forces be allowed to compete on the same footing as Eifle Clubs, being the most important. The proposed date of meeting gave general satisfaction.