TELEGRAMS.

Inangahua Times, Volume XI, Issue 1688, 7 April 1886, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

♦ : — (FROM OUK OWX COKKBSFONDKNT.) HOKITIKA, 5. The Ross United Company's mine lias been pumped out, and the men sent below again. The pumps drained the works iv the unprecedently short time of three days, and are working splendidly. It is raining heavily, and the dams and races are all full. Duneuin, 5. At the City Council meeting the gas engineer submitted a report practically amounting to a recommendation that the whole works, which he described as at present arranged in a " higgledy pigglr<ly " manner he re built, and he estimates the present cost of leakage at L 2.900. Five boys, who have run away from the Industrial School are supposed to have broken into a house, at Mosgiel, where they took Bom-3 silver, and helped themselves to fool. The Phoenix mine at Skippers has crushed 4910z5. from 500 tons. Chuistchubch, 5. The Rev. S. M'Farlaue, missionary from New Guinea, delivered a lectnre here to night, to a large audience. He deprecated settlement at present, bnt said that the interior of the country should he thoroughly explored, and he was convinced that a profitable trade with the natives might We carried on in cedar, sago and bc-cche-do-mer. A branch of the London Mission Society, under whose auspices Mr M'Fmlaneis laboring, was formed- at the meeting. Arhbuhton, 5. Mr Wm. Black, residing at Ashburton F*.iks was found shot in his slaughter house this morning. It i« presumed that he was taking n loaced gun hanging from a ratter when the trigger caught in a meat hook. Auckland 5. At the inquest on the body of Ed. Fuller, of the Arc)] Hill tragedy, a verdict of /eh dc sc was returned, also of wilful murder of Emily Ruling. The girl's foneral was attended by 7,<K)O pet-eon*. Her letter r*ad at the inquest had beon written 2 years

A number of native chiefs are in town, including Taomer Hitire Teparata, and Ngakoru, who have iiot been in Auckland since ihe war of 1863, ■ they have, been subpoened or sum- j moned as defendants or witnesses on J a prosecution for criminal libel, raised by Mr F^iser, Native Agent.