LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 2712, 23 January 1892, Page 3

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

(Per Press Association) (by telegraph.) Wellington, This day The conference held this week by Ministers and the Public Trustee with the settlers and natives interested in the jTaranaki confirmed leases have resulted n an understanding which is expected to pave the way for a settlement of the difficulty, to be made final by legislation next session. The native owners are disposed to agree to a renewal of the leases for 21 years at rentals calculated at the rate of five per cent upon the value of the land with improvements ; and this the settlers will accept rather than have their holdings submitted to competition in the open market. A young man named Peter Cheyne, lineman in the employ of the Telegraph Department, was killed instantaneously by falling from the top of a telegraph pole. The Monowai, with English mails of December, left ’Frisco for Auckland on the 12th inst., five days late. The Alameda, with the DecemberJanuarv colonial mails, reached Auckland on the 21st inst., contract date. Masterton, This day A man named John Thompson was arrested yesterday, suffering from religious mania. He was singing and praying on the upper Taueru Road, and when remonstrated with, stabbed himself in the chest, inflicting a nasty wonnd. He also cut himself about the legs. The man, who is in a pitiable condition, will be sent to the Wellington asylum.