TELEGRAMS

Colonist, Volume XXXII, Issue 5523, 18 June 1889, Page 3

TELEGRAMS

Per United Press Association, WELLINGTON June 17. Members of Parliament are beginning to dribble in, but the balk of them aro aoi ! expected till the end of the week. j The Financial Statement and the Governor _ speech aro ready.

Up to 9 p vi the s.s Kaikoura had not been seen at the Spit so that she cannot arrive till to-morrow morning. The St-cretary to tbe Poßt Office has.received information that the Cable steamer Sherard Osborne was driven baok to Sydney by stress of weather. She reoeived somr damage. Avery lurge public meeting to-night discussed the Council's proposals for a £75,000 loan. Much hostility was shown, and eventually the meeting declared against the proposals by an enormous majority, only about twenty voting in favor cf the loan. DUNEDIN, June 17. At an adjosmed private meeting of tho creditors of Messrs Proctor, Jones J. Co, the report of the Committee estimated the liabilities at £23,602, and tbe assets at £7,453, leaving a deficiency of -£16,1-3. It was decided to recommend tbe firm to file, and that they be allowed the first offer of the estate. As instancing tho severity of the weather, it may be mentioned that skating on the ice was indulged in on the lagoon at Outram. This has not happened siace early in the I • sixties.' NAHEB, Jane 17,

Karauria'e remains.wore to-day removed to Omahu, where p. tangi is being held. Al* though only 26 years old, ho was by birth a big rangatira, his father, wbo was shot while righting against Te Kooti, being the prinoipal chief in this part of tbe Island. Before he died he explained that what ha desired to say to the ' Herald' reporter he sent for was to contradict a report that he was ploughing on land at any time occupied by Broughton or Waatara Wi. The land is not yet through the Court, and the ownership is consequently undetermined, but certain Natives have been in the habit of cultivating particular p&ddeeke antil some three years ago. The paddock ia question was cultivated by Reniera, Renata, Biriwi, and Arabella, bnt latterly it has beon usad in common si a raceoourse. Kauratia determined to take a crop off a portion of the paddock without interfering with the racecourse, and some of Broughton'o Natives were also ploughing another portion of the paddock. Kauraria'a intention was well known, and he did not anticipate any violence. He also desired to remove from those who were with him. any imputation ef cowardice. When he saw .that Waaatra was armed with a revolver he was afraid that ii his comrades advanced several might be shot, and then there would be a very serious tribal disturbance, and so he called to tbem to run away. He had been warned by Airini not to use violence sudor any circumstances, but to tet the law settle all disputes. When he wrenched the revolver from Waatara, hii first impulse was to shoot his assailant, but he remembered what he had been. told, and determined to leave it to the law to avenge bis injuries. This was explanatory ef a rather obscure part of his depositions. The Hawke's Bay County Council to-day decided to support the Hutt Council in their endeavor to get the License Act amended in tbe direction of making local bodies licensing authorities. . :