SIR WILLIAW FOX ON NEW ZEALAND AFFAIRS.
INCREASING THE CAPITAL OF THE BANK OF AUSTRALASIA. THE BONAPARTIST AGITATION IN FRANCE. LONDON. January 23. The death is announced to-day of Gustave Dore, the well-known French artist, aged 51. The mails per Orient steamship Potosi, via Naples from Melbourne, on December 6th, were delivered here to-day. January 2-1. At a meeting of the Colonial Institute last night a paper by Sir AVilliam Fox en New Zealand affairs was read. It deplored the impolicy of the promises made to the Maoris by tho treaty of AVaitangi, and entered at length into" the native question from the foundation of the colony to the present time. The paper justified the confiscation of native lands as a punishment for rebellion, and as a necessary security for life and the preservation of peace. At a meeting of shareholders in the Bank of Australasia to-day a ballot was taken on the proposal of the board, to increase the capital by the issue of new shares to the amount of £400,000 The scrutiny showed that a majority of the shareholders were in favor of the increase of capital.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3600, 25 January 1883, Page 3
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189SIR WILLIAW FOX ON NEW ZEALAND AFFAIRS. Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3600, 25 January 1883, Page 3
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