GREEK FRONTIER QUESTION.
Athens, February 7. A more moderates feeling prevails among- all classes in Greece in regard to the frontier question ; and there soems every probability that the Turkish and Greek difficnlty will receive a peacefal settlement. NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS. [from ouu own correspondent.] ACCIDENT TO A BOY. Auckland, Febrtiary 9. A sorioas accident happened to a boy namod James El worth on Sunday morning. The boy was riding a horse to Freeman's Bay Beach, when, on approaching the drain opposite the new gasometer, the horso suddenly leaped the drain, and the boy was thrown with considerable force to the ground. Unfortunately, in the full the body got eotaugled in a rope bridle, and he was dragged along several yards, until the horse was stopped by a man, who found the lad unconscious, with his bead and face sadly cut. He was taken to the doctor's, and is still in a precarions state. RICH SPECIMEN FIND AT COROMANDEL Some rich specimens from the mines of the Tiki District- Oornmandel pjlcU fields are likely to cause a rush to- that; district. The New Zealand Timber Co., which hold 9 a largo estate there, advertise it open for mining leases on mosfc liberal terms. THE PONAWA BLOCK. Gisbourxe, February 9. The Native Lands Court, presided over by Judgos O'Brien and Heaphy, has refused an application to vest the freehold of the Ponawa block (about 20,000 acres) in three trustees instead ot the fifty or sixty native owners who had signed a trust deed to the three trustees named. On the application of Mr. Rees, the case has been stated for the Supreme Court, and Mr. Reea baa left for Wellington, with the view of getting the points at issue speedily decided, as a number of the Lady Jocelyn's Belfast immigrants aro anxious to settle on tho block.
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Taranaki Herald, Volume XXVIX, Issue 3652, 9 February 1881, Page 2
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306GREEK FRONTIER QUESTION. Taranaki Herald, Volume XXVIX, Issue 3652, 9 February 1881, Page 2
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