TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1479, 13 March 1886, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

The shipment of white fish ova to Nelson are all dead,

An enquiry into the management of the Old Men’s Refuge at Auckland is going on. Some extraordinary charges have been made.

Sir George Grey’s meeting at Invercargill on Thursday night was very largely attended, the theatre being crowded. The speaker’s subject was the nationalisation of the land, which he dealt with on the lines of his Auckland address previously telegraphed. Sir George Grey received an attentive hearing, and at the close of the meeting a cordial vole of thanks for the address, proposed by Mr Joyce, M.H.R., was heartily accorded. At the interview with the King natives last week Mr Ballance presented the natives with three guns, and said he had handed over the guns in token of the conclusion of peace, and for the promotion of unity between the races. He had made arrangements by which all respectable natives would get as muph ammunition as (hey required, hut ho dif} np,t fhjnk the time had yet poipo fpr abolishing all restrictions in regard to purchase by natives of guns and ammunition. He said the practice had hitherto been to pass laws and then explain them to the natives. He had adopted the plan of explaining them first and getting them passed afterwards." ' The Mary, a seven-ton fishing boat, is missing. She was last seen on the sth at midday by the fishing boat Bella May, The May with the former was running h.efpre a gale to Kawau for shelter. The Bella May sqddenly loaf sight of the Mary, and a look-out was sent t° t l| 6 mast head and failed fo see any signs of hpr, aqd she h aß tot been seen since nor 'heard of. The rnisaing men are single men named Alexander Anderson and Charles Neville,

Sir George Whitmore, as Commissioner of Aimed Constabulary, has written to Sir William Fox ashing him to fulfil the promise contained in a letter published in this Wellington Times on Wednesday fo furnish the polio® w i*h *h e n an) e of the hptpl referred join the letter as a gambling hell and the licensee as a cart! and dice player. ______