TELEGRAMS.

Inangahua Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1278, 1 August 1883, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(FROM OX7B OWN CORRESPONDENT. ) Christchurch, 30. Another party of three individuals have applied at the Waste Lands Office for a prospecting license at the Ninety Mile Beach. One of Smith's party has returned, to Southbridge with amalgam, the result of washing up. He estimates that 10s. a day can be made after paying all expenses that is, working eight hours. The result of the washing up is as follows : Out of eight loads of dirt, half or three-quarters of which was <*ot together at first without any trouble being taken in selecting, sdwts. of gold was obtained. He estimates that with carefully collected wash-dirt the yield would be 2dwts. or 3dwts. per load. r In the Divorce &>urt yesterday the case of Holt v. Holt, Ah Chee, and Duke, was heard. Petitioner applied for a divorce on the ground of the respondent's adultery with the two corespondents. After hearing the evidence, whicli fully proved the charge of adultery, His Honor granted a rule nisi, with costs against the co-respon-dent Ah Ghee. l Auckland, 30. Andrew Wallen, aged 23, employed at Cousins and Atkiu's coachbnilding factory, is supposed to have committed suicide. His hat was found off the clock, containing a letter addressed to the care of Mr Wallen, St. Kilda, Dunedin Last night he visited the Queens Head Hotel, where he met p young lady, with whom he took a waik . returning at 11, and then presented her with a bracelet, as she would probably never see him again. tie did not appear at his work to-day ±he pohoe have dragged unsuocess fully for the body. Nelson, 23. Yesterday GO men wore out searching for Mr Biecholz in the vicinity of tiie Takaka Eiver, and to-day 40 men liave been searching. The horse was .racked from the river, but the body flras«not found on Saturday night. 30. Regarding t!;e gaol tragedy the jury

i met again this day, in order to consider ■ ; their rider, and they agreed to add to ; ; their verdict the following rider :— . " (1.) Thaj the delay in removing . Davidsou to one of the gaols in the . Colony, where prisoners sentenced to . ' imprisonment for life are confined, is much to lie regretted. (2.) They consider that a prisoner like Davidson, whose murderous and suicidal tenck-n- --( cies were known, should not, under any circumstances, have been 'employed as cook in the gaol, and they would recommend for the future that the arms be kept in a place of greater security than the so-called armory at present in use. (3.) They desired to express their admiration of the tact and bravery displayed by Mr Shallcrass under such trying circumstances." Dune din, 30. The rain continues, but not so steadily. Nothing serious in the way of floods is reported, and the railway lines are still right. The story about a piece of firewood being placed on the northern railway line turns out to be a small afiair. [fc was a clothes prop, one end of which was on the adjacent fence, and the other end across one rail. The heavy rain has now stopped. A good deal of damage was clone on the Hat through the water entering houses. Wanganui, 30. The Hon. J. Bryce has returned the following reply to an address of sympathy from the Kaieri Cavalry ..: — " I have received with great giatification the address of sympathy you have been so good as to send me. Whatever may happen to me in the future it will always be a matter of satysfaction to me that I succeeded in acquiring your confidence under very trying circumstances, and that I have retained it to the end. When a man attains a prominent public position, such as I now occupy, the temptation to some minds to assail his private character is evidently irresistible. The writer of the history to which you refer, appear? however, to regard this, not as a temptation to be avoided, but as a duty to be performed. His object seems to be to prove that his countrymen when they become New Zealand colonists changed their nature and principles, and became all that is. wicked and base. To such a task inveracity aud slander are sufficiently congenial. I trust that the day will come when the history of New Zealand will be truly written, without morbid sympathy or unworthy prejudice. When that time comes, it will be seen that the Natives of this country have been treated with a degree of justice and humanity never before displayed bj the dominant race in the history of colonization. Gentlemen, I assure you, and you at least will accept the assurance, that, so far as I am aware, I have done nothing in my public capacity which my friends need be ashamed to see recorded." Wellington, 31. About forty members of either branch of the Legislature, many of whom were accompanied by their wives and families, paid a visit to the Wa^rarapa district yesterday, for the purpose of inspecting the famous Eimutuka incline, and enjoying the country air for a few hours, preparatory to the party struggle appointed to take place in the House this afternoon regarding the Property Tax. A very sudden death occurred as the Thames steamboat was returning to Custom-house quay about 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon, whilst sitting on his bed Alfred Butcher, a miner, who arrived from the West Coast on Sunday week, fell back and expired. According to his own statement he had £1000 on deposit in a bank in Melbourne, and on searching his effects last night a draft and notes to the value of about £GOO were discovered. The Property Tax Bill came up for \ the second reading this afternoon, and is likely to occupy Wednesday, aud will, perhaps, finish on Thursday I night. The temper of the House at present is to take a strictly party view of the Bill as involving the whole question of the incidence of taxation. Mr Montgomery is expected to j oppose the Bill, not because he objects i to an extra half penny in the k on all kinds of property exceeding £500 in value, but because he and his party are pledged to a land tax as the only sound policy. Sir George Grey agrees for once with Mr Montgomery's section, so that a combined Opposition seems really possible on this one question. I The pont-up animosities of politicians will l»e let loose in this debate, and the division is expected to be of a more strictly party kind than any this session, past or to come.