AUCKLAND.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3800, 19 September 1883, Page 3

AUCKLAND.

This day,

Letters read at Tauranga from Mr Vesey Stewart state that the Tauranga-Rotorua Railway Cqmpany is being successfully floated in London, and that there is no doubt of the project being accomplished. Letters from Mr Bodell also state that the construction of the railway is a certainty, and that the steamer Northumberland, of 2,000 tons, leaves direct for Tauranga this month, and will be followed by a sailing vessel of GOO tons, bringing navvies, immigrants, and material for the railway. King Kalakaa, of Hawai, will visit the Australian colonies next June. His Government has sent a protest against the Polynesian annexation scheme to all the European Governments, as well as to America. It lays stress on the results that have been achieved through the islands being , guaranteed in their political independence by England, France and America, and claims for kindred peoples of Polynesia similar opportunities. The immigrants by the Doric are spoken favorably of as healthy and respectable. No complaints have been made by the immigrants as to the treatment on board. The single young women arc of a good stamp. Over half of them were engaged yesterday at wages of from 8s to 10s a week ; cooks, 15s. The others are holding out for situations as parlormaids or housemaids, but the demand is only for general servants. Warned by the discreditable scenes in connection with the Westmeath. girls, the immigration authorities have taken special care in the supervision of the single women. A married police constable will be posted day and night at the immigration depot till the girls get places. Mr March, immigration officer, from Christchurch, visited the quarantine station yesterday in the Customs launch. Ho roi' ports tb,at all th.o cases 'hi measles aro im-

proving Mrs Cully was confined of a son on the island, and is progressing favorably. It is not expected that the detention of the people there will be long. TheDonc issued New Zealand frozen meat, purchased in London, to the passengers throughout the voyage, and has some still on board in excellent condition. The cargo is being discharged day and night, the electric light being used at night. ____^