TELEGRAPHIC

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 18 October 1880, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC

.[BY ELECTKId' TsftJsGßA>l*H.] [FBOM OUE OWN CORRESPONDENT.] "Wellington, October 16. Post Bays, the only. Ministerial changes in contemplation is thiit announced jn Parliament, }be transfer of the portfolio of Mines, jdifcb- will take.place shortly, j !J£be Pinafore Opera is to be per- j formed on the ship St. Leonard to* niji>t in the Wellington harbor: the weather is splendid, ant] thp affair jj^roinises to be a great success. Tbe performance is for the benefit of Miss Leaf. Dt/nedjn, October 16. Up Judge Mansford died at an early hour* this morning. The deceased gentleman was recently E<M. nod District Judge of Wellington, and waa on a visit to Dunediu prior to leaving lot England on 12 mouths' leave of absence. A navvy named Michael Donoghue. employed at Mullochy Gully, inflicted on himself a wound in the abdomen to-day. He ia not expected to-re-cover. A skeleton has been found at the Upper Owaki. It is believed]"to he that of a man named Grny^ a workmin, who disnppeared four years ago. Annan and Hood were discharged from custody by Judge Williams, because Mr Watt, R.M., remanded them under the Jnstico of the Pe'aoe Act, and subsequently attended at the gaol and verbally remanded under the Distillation Act, They have been since re-arrested. ■■-< Chri*tchurch, October 15. Some days ago a man named Rase was shot in , -the, .knee, while walking on'tbe banks of the Avon — his position, has now !'t^pome, so precarious that to-day his depositions were taken/ by the R.M. Three lads supposed to have been concerned in tbe shooting were arrested to-day, charged with intent to do grevious bodily hnim This day the ship, Opawa, brings ten single men, and ninety-three single women — all nominated immigrants to Lyttelton. Hawera, October 16. Tcday, the Chief, Tamatawa, of the Liapowhenui tribe, requests his pakeha friends through the columns of the Hawora and Normanby Scar, to abstain from visiting him on Sundays, as since he becamo a member of the Church of England, he has always kept the Sadbath days sacred. nimble-Bent was married to a daughter of Tamatawa, but she lately divorced herself- Tamatawata js inucli respected. Hone Pihania, who lately" got 1500 acres on the Waimate Plains from the Government, has three f)ops of bread, besides flour, sugar, &c, to Parihaki. Invekcargill, October 16. A batch of the unem^oyed passed through last flight en route fov the Orepuki railwlff workß. A TO"!* amd, October 16. The French Warship, Dagot, s.x guns, arrived with 155 men to»day from Tahile. She remains here one week, and then proceeds to Valpariso. Intensive refflEpftious are proceed* ing at Governoj^trf House. Card Moore, Mho gallantly saved the passengers and crew of the Sehuha'lion on her last voyage to London, was publicly presented with the Royil Huinane-'Society's bronze medal at the Theatre Royal last night. Some hundred Taupo Natives are emigrating to Haurangi^Tawbaio's settlement.. Mi: • • ''] ' : 'J ■'•; -' ■ ■ "" Wei&ingtonJ October l4y A The Police Inspector about lieing; dispensed with will berimed as |Ser£e'anfjr,;.if they choose to accept .the position. Present sergeants are being reduced to the ranks, and -some; constables are beiug got rid of. Messrs L-iwson and Conyers will get three months leave of abseuce from Monday nex^, Chrimtchuggh, October 13. Two burglaries were attempted on Monday night, but the thieves were captured. A meeting will be held on Thursday to float a company for forming a railwa from Huruaui to Ifcefton, If this is a

couiplisbed the chance of a tramway line to Westport will look up. Nelson, October 12. Mr Haskayne Jonps, of the Bank of New South Wales, died suddenly from heart disease,