TELEGRAMS.

Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1107, 30 June 1882, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS.)

Christchurch, June 28.

One of the water pipes bursted in the tunnel to-day, and has cut off the Lyttelton water supply, till it can be repaired. No damage was done.

The annual meeting of the Rakaia and Ashburton Forks Railway Company was held to-day, The profits amounted to £1930, equal to about 2f per cent.

Dunedin, June 28.

The City Council, which has to stand the brunt of so many claimß for compensation for riparian rights connected with the Silver §>tream Water Supply Scheme, has received still another claim— \his is from the New Zealand Refrigerating Company, amounting to L 20,000.

Auckland, June 28.

Winiata arrived by train to-night. There was a great crowd at the station, and some slight hooting. The' police got a carriage, and drove off rapidly with the prisoner. He was charged in the usual way at the police station. He was placed in a separate cell. Barlow came down by train, and went to the Maori settlement at Wangaru. The story of drugging and chloroforming turns out a fabrication. Barlow never had time to inform Constable 6illus.he was coming, as Winaeta was leaving Barlow's settlement next day, and he had either to capture him at once or lose his chance. Gillus had been watching at rendezous arranged for a week. No one knew anything of arrangements but Sergeant M'Golvin, Gillus, and Barlow, so that if the plan had failed it might be again attempted. Ten material witnesses are all handy, but two witnesses who gave evidence at the inquest on Packers are since dead.

Later.

There is some suspicion of Waneata being implicated in another murder previous to Packer's murder. Wineata was sentenced to seven months imprisonment for stealing a saddle from one Collins at Onehunga. The evidence on which he was committed was given by another Maori. Shortly after the expiration of "Wineata's sentence this native disappeared, and has never been beard off since. Wineata gave out that he died at Mangari, but recent inquiries reveal the fact that no one else knew anything about his death.