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Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2394, 3 December 1870, Page 2

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(from greville’s telegram company, recter’s agents.) Queenstown, December 3. The Escort from Arrow and Queenstown this month amounts to nearly 4,000 ounces. Finnery and Poulter have obtained 801bs weight of gold from their terrace workings on the Shotover, Incendiarism is on the increase in this district. More police protection is much needed. There is only one policeman in the entire district. The severe drought continues.

Christchurch, December 3, The farewell dinner to Mr Moorhouse last night was a great success, AD shades of opinion were represented. Mr Moorhouse was presented with a silver tankard and claret jug, and Mrs Moorhouse with an exceedingly handsome silver codec service. Mr Moorhouse, in his speech, said that Canterbury and Otago wero really the only two colonising powers in the Colony. A youth named Bailey hung himself yesterday. He was under medical treatment for sore eyes, Auckland via Wanganui, December 3. On November 28th the Natives attacked a survey party at Peronga, near Alexandra, on the boundary of the confiscated land in the Waikato, at eight o’clock in the morning. Four armed Natives emerged from the bush, and fired a volley into the tent where the surveyors were breakfasting. Mr Richard Todd, the head of the party, was shot through the heart, and died instantly. A half-caste, who was wounded in three places, escaped. The four others also escaped, and subsequently arrived at Alexandra all safe. The Volunteers brought in Mr Todd’s body, which was buried with Masonic honors. At a coroner’s inquest, the jury returned a verdict of wilful murder against Natives unknown. It is supposed that the cause of the massacre was jealousy of prospectors on the part of the Natives belonging to Kawhaia, and its supposed chiefs, Pato and Ngaru Ngaru, of the Ngatiaemaru tribe. Arrived.—Auckland, from Fiji. At a meeting held at the Fijis resspccting the ownership of the Daphne and the Natives taken from it, a committee was appointed to consider the matter. Another committee was appointed to draw up a statement for the Chamber of Commerce at San Francisco, respecting the suitability of the Fijis as a port of call. Departure.---Auckland, for Sydney, to-day.