THE NORTH.

Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2111, 10 February 1870, Page 2

THE NORTH.

'''The Southern Cross, of the29th nit., says : “Our flax trade is steadily increasing and improving in value. Within a few weeks 30A tons of very superior (lax has been shipped from this harbor, realising from L 26 to L3O per ton in Auckland. Some of our ilax manufacturers are going to try the experiment of sending their flax to market without scutching it.” A consignment cf the true and real English crow has arrived at Auckland by the City of Auckland, from London. The English crow is a well-known enemy and destroyer of the caterpillar ; and the introduction of the species into the Colony will he hailed with welcome, we should imagine, both hy farmers and market gardeners. It is to be hoped that the birds will speedily and numerously multiply, so that their introduction into the other provinces of the Colony may shortly be looked for.

The Shorlland Times says that it is rumored that Mr Puekey had received instructions from the Government to treat with the individual native owners of land at Ohinemni'i, which, as soon as ceded to the Government, would be thrown open for mining purposes. The General Government Gazette notifies that his Honor T. B. Gillies, his Honor Mr Justice Ward, and Julius Haast, Esq., Bh. 1).. F.R.S., have been elect ed members of the Board of Governors of the New Zealand Institute hy the affiliated societies. The Rev. xMr .Stock, of Wellington, has received the following reply to the petition which he forwarded to the Governor in Tt-icker’s case :—“ Ministers have not been able to advise his Excellency to comply with your request, and the question must be considered as settled unless fresh evidence should at some future time turn up.”