TELEGRAMS.

Inangahua Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1295, 10 September 1883, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(from otjb own cobrespondent. ) Christchurch, 7. In the action of Sture against the Union Steatrship Co., Judge Johnston to-day gave judgment for plantiff, for £812, with costs. The weather has now taken up, and is bright and cold to-night. Tahopoi Te Atwatia, the oldest surviving Maori at Kaiapoi, and chief of the Ngahihu tribe, died on Wednesday last, aged 85. Dunedin, 7. In reply to a memorial by the local manufacturers, asking that all Government works poßsible be dune in the Colony should be contracted for within the Colony, the Premier has replied saying :— " I entirely agree with you that nothing should be imported by the Government which can be supplied by .the local manufacturer, quality and prices being equal. Indeed, lam prepared to go farther, and to say that the local manufacturers should have the preference, even at a moderate excess of cost, provided that the excess is not more than say from 8 to 4 per cent." Ross, 7. A quart? reef, showing gold, has been discovered two miles from the town of Ross, and a lease has been taken up and granted. : Openake 8. Forty Natives passed yesterday on their way to Parahaka. Most of them came from Hawera and the viciuity of Openake. Auckland, 8. The damage by the Tekapore sawmill fire is ascertained to be under £10,000. Wellington, 8. This afternoon Mr W. L. Travers, city soliciter, tendered his resignation of that position, giving as his reason that he finds he is unable to work in harmony with the officers jof the Corporation. Hawera, 8. A man named Murtagh Collins has been arrested at Stratford, charged with wounding working bullocks belonging to Mr Mielree, a storekeeper. Some bullocks twice came home

wounded, and a constable was sent for afrd secreted himself. On the third occasion shots were fired, and the cattle wounded. The constable sprang out and arrested Collins, who was taken to New Ply month.