TELEGRAPHIC

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 6 May 1881, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC

[BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.] [from our own correspondent.] AtcsiAND, May 4. The following is tho latest phase in the Chinese immigration :— The steamer Lydia, Captain Poulson, put into Honolulu, with 700 Chinese on board. They

mutinied and threatened to murder European crew, and captain applied to the authorities for assistance, The police endeavored to board the vessel, but after exhausting their ammunition retired, and the Chinamen then attacked the crew in the forecastle, but as sixteen of them had served their time in the German army they fought for their liVes, and drove them back down the hold, and closed the hatches on them till the police and soldiers arrived ; the Honolulu Gazette says that 80 of the late (Chinese) importation are reported to be pirates by profession. Twenty-two cases of small pox have been^taken from Lydia to the hospital in Honolulu. Tauranga, May 4. Edward William Barfield was charged before the Magistrate to-day with an attempt to rob the National Bank and was remanded till Friday. Duxediit, May 6.. The Tararua inquiry has been adjourned till Tuesday, on account of the impossibility - f of serving -tbe#«HftT!to.fy w -notices on the officers. Auckland, May 4The barque Fern which arrived from London last evening reports that a vessel, either a brig or a brigantine, was ashore' al Little Leanier ; the sails were loose and the foremast gone and the vessel was apparently abandoned; she is supposed to be the schooner Pelican, from Norfolk Island. The census returns show an extraordinary increase in Auckland city and sub* urbs. News by the Frisco muil under date Algiers, Aprir2,*states Colonel Flathoi's expedition was totally annihilated by natives fwhile exploring for the trßns» Sahara Kail way. Wtndham, May 4. No bodies whatever came ashore yesterday. To-day five have bren foundi