TELEGRAMS.

Inangahua Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1304, 1 October 1883, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(from OCR OWN CORRESPONDENT. ) Auckland, 28. The Mataura's meat cargo was insured n the New Zealand Insurance Company

for the aum,of,£lo,62^ of which -67,626 is re-insured 'iti varioutt Colonial and other'; offices, Only One-tfiird vi the meat is; damaged :•.■'-. ■■'■■' '•--'•. Mr G. C. M-Cormick, a banister in I this distrirt, was'v arrested to-day oh aj charge of perjury, and-admi' ted to bail. Mr DaigaviJle; will address bis constituents in the Theatre ? Royal on Wednesday next. The Meeting-is expected to be a lively .one. • ;..;' .;■■:..: A '■: , . Napibr, 28. -Xunholdera,- acting? in concert,- have now deb" uitely decided to erect a rabbitproof fence-all alon^.'tbe southern boundary of the province- : The work will be commenced at- once. -'■ . The refrigerating works at Tirnoanare. are now ia progress, and .negotiations are going on for one of the Shaw, Saville, and Albion < omptf Ay's -to', call monthly. Hawke's vßay can export 10,1-00 sheep per month, but at present the surplus goes to: Auckland and Wellington. ■?. ■ . • Dunedin, 28. The Tablet has been informed by Walsh that G. E. Redmond, M.P., haa finally made up his mind not to visit ' ew Zealand, as his time is fully occupied in arranging for the meeting of the Melbourne Convention. • *— - Christchurch, 29. ' The chess match— Wellington v. Chria*church—was continued last night, and will be contiuued to-night and next Saturday. In reply to the request of Christchurch, Wellington has declined to allow more than one game, each, .unless two games atevery board should be completed in four nights, v- ith regard to two mistakes, by one of which a Welling--ton player, lost his queen, and by the other a CJiriatchurch player lost a knight, Wellington consents .to rectify, but insist* upon .all future mistakes .being allowed to stand. Christeburcb feels aggrieved, as in a former match, when Christchurch made a mistake, by which a queen was lost, Wellington refused rectification. . By the Hinemoa,; which arrived here yesterday morning, Butler, Private Secretary to the * atire Minister, returned to Wellington from Kawhia, where, he had been sent to enquire into the - recent lawless proceedings on the part of certain Natives. He found that while the original report as to both beacons and buoy being destroyed, and the settlers ordered off, were inaccurate, bo was also the later reason, which said that, neither the beacon nor tbe buoys had been touched,- but only a. pole put up l-y a settler as a land mark. The' true facts proved' to be that two Natives' had, at Tawhaio's prompting, or by his direction, - pulled down the beacons recently erected by Captain Fairchild,':aiid bad towed them ashore, but had no^'ifou'ched the buoys, or threatened the settlers. t the same time, it was equally certain' that an'attack on the buoys would %9 the next step, and this was contemplated in the event of the first " try- oft prjJyjng ; successful. ■'.; As to Tawhaio's complicity, or, indeed, as to : his having directly caused the deed, there is no doub; whatever- neither -is there' as : to his being specia^. counsellor in this : matter. -; It would ;be discreet at ' 7 present to hint at their names, but more j will be heard of the affair at a future date. Tlie delay in the safe of the Kawhia town-' ship, and the stoppage, through exhaustion of the vote, of "the Kawiiia-Raglan ' road, "'evidently suggested to tho .N ative mind the 'idea t^at We were afraid to pro-, ceed, and this notion was instilled into them by insidioua advisers, until they resolved on trying a. bold , stroke to .see. whether the Government would submit tamely to the insult and loss of mani. being the factp, a long and earnest consultation book place in Cabinet yesterday as to the best course to be adopted in the circumstances. Mr Bryce, who left last evening for Kawhia, intended going as far as Pahautanui that night, proceeding by coach this morning to Foxton, thence by rail and coach to New Plymouth, where the Hinemoa will call and pick him up, taking him fin with the constabulary to Kawhia. It is' now definitely decided that the present Premier, Major Atkinson, and the ex-Premier, Mr Whitaker. shall represent New Zealand, ! at the Sydney Annexation Conference next month. *"-«-*-''''-"'''"'**-***'■'*'■■'--'--"'■■■■-■■■-■■-■-■■