. A dispute has arisen in the Onewhero district with respect to a proposed road. The local body there ' wishes to. take the road in a certain . direction, and the settlere object to it goin? there, contending thab the old road ia sufficient for all purposes. The local Board proceeded to take land for the road under the Public Works Act, bub the Minister for Works, before approving of the proclamation, is desirous that an inquiry should be held. He has reque&fced .Mr Bishop, R.M., to inquire into the matter, and Mr Bishop has undertaken to do so. ■,

Recently we published a cable message from America stating - that a largo number of South Sea lela'nder.3 from the Gilbert Group had been losfcab sea off the American coast, bound for Mexico. By the Jaab 'Frisco mail the following additional do tails are to hand :—The Tahiti, brig, whieu, put into Drake's Bay some time ago, en route from the South Seas with 270 islanders destined for the plantations of San" Benito, .was found .floating bottom up off Lizard Point, by the steamer Kosevilie, which was on the way to-Manzanilla from Islappa. The rudder was gone, and there were no signs of life, the probability beinu that all hands had perished. The vessel sailed from Drake's Bay on the Bth September, and bad therefore been 90 days on the journey when Seen by .'die Roseville/ The Tahiti (200 fcona) wa9 built by Mathew'Turner at SaU Francisco in 18SMor the Tahiti trade, Iβ which she was engaged for soveral years.
$TAB>TUESDAY 'JANUARY 13, 1892.
