TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

West Coast Times, Issue 9031, 29 April 1891, Page 4

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

9 INTERPROVINCIAL. {jp£B United |Pbbss Association.] Westpobt, April 28. Constable Houlihan, who has been on police duty at Mokjhjuui, repoita that at

abmt twelve o'clock to»day tbe steamer Lawrence in leaving Mokibinui harbor grounded on the bar. The vessel got off, however, but owing to the loss of her propeller blades ehe was driven In shore and stranded on tbe south side of tbe entrance, where Bbc now lies beached, it is thought that by discharging the cargo, the vessel will be easily got off. Two of the Mokihinui Coal Company's directors are on board- No further particulars are likely to be known till the morning. Wellington, April 28. It Is probable Sir G< orge Grey wi : l proc-ed from Adelaide '(where be is at present) to Englanl on a visit. Tbis '• atei) i« understood to be taken in deference t • ho wi^h of Sir George's friends at Borne. At the ■' ag tat rates Couit this m rning tm the ca-e of manslaughter against ("a taia Falconor being called, Mr Coitea, counsel for the proieoitrix, Mrs Heighton, said he did not intend o offer any evidence, and the ca<e wai dismissed. An old Maori woman, Pa i X <utoi), aged ,88 years, the old mother of JameWallace, butcher at <*taki, was accidentally burned to death this morning, i^he slept near tbe fire, and it is eappoted the bedclothes caught fire. No one cl.c was in ihe whare. Mr Betb»Bmlth, Chief Judge of the Native Land Coirt, is at presen in Wellington conferring with the Native Minister as to tbe proposed legislation relating to native matters. Tbe departure of the Mini ter for Public Worts for Auckhnd has bejn delayed. Tbe Ulnemoa took twelve long-sentenced prisoners to Milford £ound to aws: in road making. The Minister for Defense proposes to make important alteration* ia regard !o the appointment of officers in t>? Volunteer Companies which sho-ll be abolished and the recommendations oi Major-General Edwards on :bia subject carried out. With the view of securing horoughly trained mm in the police force, MrSeddon has decided that no man it to be taken into the force unless be hna been thro years in tbe permanent artillery. Government received a cotnmuiiidtion to-day from tbe Agent -General in London with reference to the fall in Now Zealand j sticks. Tho Ageiit"Gecnral stat's that' this decline connot be attributed to New Zealand alone, as all colonial stocks ate moro or less disturbed from tho state of finances in the Argentine Republic, the increase uf reserve by the Bank ot England, (he unco taiuty of Baring Bros securities, tbe failuro of the Victorian loan, and the collapse of the syudicate system. Auckland, April 28, Tho Wainui has arrived from Samoa and Tonga, i-he reports things qu?et in tho lelands. Tainascse, *ho no'od Samoan Chie f , who took a prominent p r <rt in the ia'e wa r , is dead, Iho cuse of death wss Brigbt's disease. His demise is expected to have a beneficial effect on Samoan politic. Nelson, April 28. Considerable interest waß manifested in the Town School Committee election last night* The clerical party were defeated. PuN*Ditf, April 28. 1 At a meeting of tbe Temperance pirty to-night it was dttermmed to form a permanent association *o take an »c ivepait in Municipal aud Parliamentary jfFairs i and keep prohibition befote tbe public. The Mini ter of Public Works has authorised the letting of ano her tec'un i of the ('atl'Dß liver railway for tbe un* einplojtd. He iutends to visit Dunedin ; in two or three wo-k". 1 1 it) understood tha' tho Railway Com- : misßioners have taKen over the Otago Central railway to Middlemarch, but are delaying tho opening until tbe Minister is able to attend.