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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume II, Issue 131, 3 December 1873, Page 3

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PER A N GI, O-AUSnt AUA -V PRESS TEI.KGK.II’H AO£KCr. Last Night’s News. , r Avcelisd, Tuesday v ik>h‘i, IHE .Aiick'and r«pr^ f at The Melbourne intercolonial prize firing returned hv (he Wei tworth yesterday, They won a fair share of money prizes. They will be entertained a banquet in company with toe crickets s. ! -a. Committee proceeds to ()nrtningii to-niu; raw I to escort the cricket team in triumph into tow, I The Newton election took place to-cisv wit!’ -he I following resultMacready. 378; Cheese,,.*,,. j “* j J~ c ** W!iln » 257 ; Shauaghan, 203. Mavrcudv ana Cheeseman elected. There was no English news by the Wentworth I as the cable is interrupted. Australian news! unimportant. j . A LBXiKmiA. Tuesday Night. Major Mair had an interview with Kewi the other day at Kopua. The Ngatihaua want to pass some Ngatim&niapoto land lying beyond Orakau through the Land Court at Hamilton in the course of "the present month, iiewi will send a to object to the process. Tapihaoa has been to Alexandra, and hag now gone to see Tawhiao- His miimioa is to induce lawhiao and Manuhiri to meet the GoTernor at Ngaruawahia some time during the autumn. The idea originated with Rewi and Tapihana. Everything is very quiet. Wellington, Tuesday Night. Preliminary prospectus of a Sugar Refining Company has been published ; capital, £12,000, shares of £lO each, with power to iacreage to £2OO,CK 0. Iwo thousand shares each reserved for allotment in Otago, Canterbury, and Auckland ; remaining, 6,000 shares for other New Zealand provinces and elsewhere. Carpenters and painters in a very unsettled state, owing to their master# objecting to raise their wages. ° The Zealandia arrived at P,.rt Chalmers with 198 immigrants, followed by the Jessie Read nion with 198 immigrants. Owing to some cases of measles and whooping cough, the latter was placed in quarantine pending the decision of the Board of Health. The ship Duke of Edinburgh, with 209 immigrants, for Wellington, was off the Lizard on September 20. The Salisbury, with 280 immigrants, sailed for Wellington at the end of October.