BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2390, 29 November 1870, Page 2

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

(uegm chenille's telegram company, reuter’s agents.)

Wellington, November 28,

The long vexed dispute about the Manawaln purchase may now be considered finally settled. Mr M‘Lcan, after a fortnight’s hard work, finished a series of meetings with the Natives on Saturday, at which he succeeded in satisfying them (as well as their agent, Mr McDonald) with a very small sacrifice of reserves, and they have pledged themselves in writing to give no further trouble and to assist in the colonization of the country. The Province gets ten elevenths of the district.

This event is not only of vital consequence to Wellington but to the whole Colony, as it obviates all risk of future disturbances,- and will entirely detach the Cook’s Straits Natives from the King party. Mr M‘Lean is entitled to the greatest credit for the tact, judgment, and firmness exercised by him in these negociations. ACCKUAXJD via N i’LSON, November 26. Mr Vogel goes ttonlh to-day. Tire following arc the Estimates for the Province of Auckland for 1871; "Revenue, LUG,2BI ; for appropriation, L 00,199, besides IMG,OBI for works under contract, salaries on the Goldfields, works, Ac. Mr Creighton, M.G.A., has joined the Auckland Executive with office as Secretary for the Thames and Provincial Treasurer, at a salary of LIOO. The Governor has gone on a second visit to Whangarei in the Blanche.

Takaxaki via Nkj.sox, November 26. Ihaia, who wont to the Waikato, has now returned. Ho reports that everything is peacefully inclined. The Natives are going to hold a monster meeting, when the road question will be discussed. Ihaia says the Waikato Natives are very favorable to roads being made. J!e passed through Mokau, and the Natives there want to sec Parris. The banks of the Mokau River, Ihaia says, are lined with coal. The murderers of the Rev MrWhitely arc looked upon by the Natives as out-

casts, and no communication is held with them. The Mokau Natives are for making terms of intercourse with the Europeans. The. Government boating service is to bo put up and sold by auction. The boatmen are likely to be the purchasers. This will c'iu| the dispute between the Government and them. Arrived—Emma Jane from Newcastle, N.B.W. Mr Parris left town for Oeo to start Native road making again. The root crop has been destroyed by slugs. The potato crop is thriving well. There lias been stormy weather for three days this week, with very heavy rain. Christchurch, Nov. 29. George Sharp, a travelling photographer, was washed off his horse and drowned in tiro Rakaia on Saturday last. Up to the present time the total amount collected for the sufferers by the late tiro in Lyttelton is LI 712 16s 2d. Mr Vogel’s contract with Neilson, as telegraphed, gives great satisfaction here.