LATEST TELEGRAPHIC

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 141, 23 April 1879, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAPHIC

(PEE PRESS AGENCY.) WELLINGTON. Tuesday. The Chronicle to-night issued the following as an extra The latest telegrams state that Te Whiti has ordered all the Europeans away from the settlement, and has adopted a most offensive attitude,

It is understood that Sir Julius Vogel retires from the Agency shortly. He purposes joining a commercial firm. Mr G. M. Reed, who recently arrived at Home as Irish Immigration Officer, will administer the affairs of the London office until a permanent appointment is made by the New Zealand Government,

Nineteen thousand tons of railway iron, to order of Government, was unloaded here last week.

The butcher's have raised the price of meat to restaurants, hotels, etc,, but not to the general public. The Waitara-Hawera railway is expected

to be completed in about'three months.

Tin action of the Clerk of the Conrt in withdrawing the bailiff, after being placed in possession, was according to the 135 th Section of the 1 Debtors'and Creditors' Act, by which all executions for debt become void as soon as soon as a debtor's bankruptcy can be published. The Government deny that Te Whiti has ordered the Europeans to leave Opunake. What was dono was by an individual Maori of no influence, who was swaggering' about the township, asking what the Europeans were doing there, and why they did not clear out. The Governmont say that Te Whiti is as earnest as ever in deprecating all violence. TOKOMAIRIRO. Tuesday.

This morning no Bruce Herald appearedThe stoppage of this paper was not unexpected. Latoly every issue was expected to bo the last. Its reprint, the Clutlia Times, in also stopped. The other Herald reprint, the Mataura Ensign, has been taken in,hand by J. S. Canning, hotelkeeper at Balelutha. BLENHEIM. Tuesday. At the Police Court yesterday, Stevenson,. hotelkeeper at Renwick, was charged under a statute of George 11., >vithi disposing of a pair of,\ionies and.carriage by, lottery; It was contended for the, defence that the sta 1 tuto was not in force in New Zealand, Judgment was resened for a week,. ' AUCKLAND. . . . Monday/ Andrew Hay, whilst working at a sawmill at Ooromandel, had his fingers cut off by getting entangled against tlie teeth in recovering the sawboard.

The Governors of tlio Grammar Scliool met to-day to consider a writ served by the Improvement Commissioners. .As the question to be discussed involved legal proceedings, reporters too excluded In reply to a question, if the Crown grant of the reserve were set aside, to whom would the land revert, Mr Fenton said to the Crown, The Board passed the' following resolution,— That a communication ho made to the Improvement Commissioners to tho effect that on condition of their ceasing proceedings under their writ of fieri facias the Governors will send the grant of two acres to tho proper authority in Wellington for correction, if the description shall in tho opinion of such authority be found to be wrong. A son of tho late Eev John Crossley, formerly of Waikato, was charged at the Police

Court to-day with larceny of a lady's cloak. He had been previously convicted of forgery. Button and Spamin, a half-caste, of Taranaki, are to run a race for a hundred pounds. Ten pounds deposit has been paid. The race has been fixed for the 10th May, The distance is to bo 300 yards. A meeting of the creditors of W. H. Farnall was held to-day; His liabilities are sworn as £32,fiog; against this Mr Farnall

ias put in as an assett a claim of £ISOO

against tho Government. The Thames Pumping Association and the Thames County Council meet on Thursday to consider the proposal that tho Pumping Association reimburse the County Council, on condition that the Council hand over security to the association;] • The wind last week averaged 320 miles a day.

The total number of inmates of the hospital is 86.

Tuesday. Tho brigantine Meg Merrilies arrived this morning from the Islands with a cargo of copra. She reports that native troubles at Ropunna arc subsided, When passing Arno Island she heard reports of guns proceeding from the shore, Hove to, when some white traders came off in a boat, and stated that the natives were fighting rival parties, assisted by 100 natives from the adjoining islands.

At the Police Court to-day, a woman applied for a protection order against her husband, and recounted a heartrending story, Wlien she had finished her alleged husband, in defence, asserted that he was never married to the woman. A search instituted by the Hegiatrar showed no record of the marriage. ' Order refused. DUNEDIN. Monday,

Mrs Britten, the Freethought and Spiritualist lecturer, gave her first address in Dunediu last night, The theatre was crowded. She is a fluent speaker, tat reveals nothing new,

The Bomon Catholics yesterday presented Bishop Moran with au address on the occasion of his attaining the 23rd year of his Episcopate, In replying to the address, ho characterised the statement made by the Christian Record, as to what Roman Catholic theologians thought lawless, as a foul lie. He intimated that lie would visit Rome in two years, and would make arrangements for an additional supply of priests, nuns, and. Christian Brothers.'

The Duncdin School Committee to-night passed tne following resolution That the Duncdin School Coinmitteo cordially approve of the efforts of the Bible in Schools Association to have the Bible re-introduced into our public .schools, and will gladly co-operate with them in their efforts to attaiu so desirable an end,"