SECOND EDITION. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2247, 20 July 1870, Page 3

SECOND EDITION. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

[[from our owk correspondents.] Wellington, July 20. The following telegram has been received by the Government from the chief Topia Turoa ;—“ To the Hon. Donald M'Lean.—Wanganui, July 19, 1870, I have returned this day from Te Aomararaa, where I had an interview with Te Huiatathi, the King’s messenger. He was sent by Tawhiao to conduct me to Te Kuiti, in order that he might learn from me when the proposed meeting would take place at Te Aomarama, I informed the messenger that the meeting in question had not been finally arranged. The messenger told me that both Tawhiao and Rewi are anxious that the meeting should be hold soon, in order that an understanding may be come to between the Government and the King Natives, that in the event of disturbances arising they may be quelled by negotiation.” The following intelligence has been received by telegram from Napier;— A meeting was hold here to reconsider financial proposals of Government, and passed the following resolutions; — “ That the resolution passed at a meeting held here last night, is not in accordance with the views of the public generally; that in the opinion of this meeting the first duty of the Government is to hike measures for the rescue of the Colony from the stagnation that has followed the lengthened Maori troubles and the great depression in value of its more important staple products.” “ That a carefully conducted stream of immigration would tend to reduce average taxation and further the development of the Colony’s resources, and if promoted in conjunction with a system of useful public works, so as to afford employment to the labor to be introduced, until such labor could be productive, would beof greatpublic benefit.” “That this meeting appreciates the efforts of the Government to further those ends by their financial proposals, and it is manifest that the capital of the Colony must be supplemented from without, and hereby approves of the raising of a loan for the purpose named, with such modifications as to its amount and the terms on which it is raised as may be adequate in reason to, satisfy English bondholders, and the more timorous section of colonists.” All the resolutions were carried unanimously.