. Afee fen to represent the Port atom wno are particularly: tequlsted to "t^n up Jo practice this afternoon at 2 o clock, at the Spit .-—Messrs, Dewes. r Duncan (2), Ellison, Gibbons ;(H. and H ' P.), Hunt, Irvine, Bendall, Kennedy, fe d i le ' f^. hidings, Bose, Searfe (P. G. and W. H.), Young. , Tile natives iv, %U TotomarA and Awanui districts are just nDw causing \. je6Aside!raDle trouble to the' police. ' .jML party of them entered upon the land^fT MrM'Arthur, anddrore away & nulEßDep of his sheep, causing the death of some; of them. When arrested they excused iJfiSr conduct on the ground that Mr MfAjfchur owed them money for back-rent. Three others, named Te Rorey, RenataHarav '-' and Karehona Taireri, were taken before v the Awanui Resident Magistrate on ' : O Tuesday, the first being charged with>-> stealing a £10 note, the second with thV' abduction of a girl under sixteen years oi ' age, and the third with an indecent : assault upon a little girl* They were All : .i remanded. Another Maori nAmed P&lci rikiri, has been committed for trial at r -, Gisborncfor rape upon a little girl (al ' native) under 10 years of age. Tanip Euru Tamiaha.was at the same Court,,; yesterday committed for trial on a charge ■ of forgery. • -•.:-..-

The WaJca Maori lias ceased publica«: , tion. ' ■; , ";,..• The new hotel at Norsewobd is; now completed, and Mr James 'Williainson, : " the landlord, late of tlie Railway" Hpfcel,"" Takapau (the old hotel on the coach-road)', has obtained the necessary license. .His : old house. at Takapau is closed.. ,, TKeo situation of the new one wilLbe;an adyan-^ tage to travellers on the road through ;tlu>" Seventy-Mile Bush, as it stands about: - halfway between Mr Ferguson's -hotel at Takapau and the hotel at Tahoraite. 'The " building is very commodious and well - fitted up. " :. -. . ■ Our Waipawa correspondent writes that the township is extremely quiet. There was only one case of vagrancy T. brought before the R.M. Court during .the week, the man charged' being ■• an old offender named Murphy. He was relieved from wandering about for the next two months by a rest in the Napifer gaol for that period. .-■, '

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[Reuter's Telegrams.]

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