AUCKLAND.

Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2461, 5 January 1871, Page 3

AUCKLAND.

(t'ROM GREVH.Le’s TELEGRAM COMI’ANV, reutek’k agents.) December 21. The half-yearly meeting of the New Zoaand Insurance Company was held to-day, at the Comp my’s oflices, Shorfckmd street. A dividend of 10 per cent, was declared. Mr James Mackay, juu., has been returned for the Thames Gohltield by a majority of 154. A still capable of holding 40 gallons lias Ixcea seized by the police in the Waikato. The owners escaped, December 22. In the Provincial Council, Mr Murray’s motion for the abolition of Provincial institutions was lost by 20 to 14. A select committee of the Council has recommended a monthly steam service to Fiji at a subsidy of LIOO per month for twelve months. The Osaka Troupe of Japanese performed for the first time last night, and were successful. Latest news from the Waikato states that Manuwhiri was the only speaker on the King’s side whop the interview too,k pla;c with the friendly chiefs, who went up on behalf of tlpe Government to ascertain the indention pf the King natives in respect to the nuuvler of Mr Todd. Manuwhiri, when asked w hy they committed the murder, said that it was not ft murder, as the party was surveying

land, which land did not belong to the Government but to the King, whose boundary was at Maungatawhiri. No satisfaction could be obtained, so the Friendlies hid to return. It is not known what steps the Government moan to take in reference to tin i mardor. The murderer of Mr 1 odd is known by the name of Tc Whitwea, and was a prisoner on board the hulk in Auckland, where he was callcl Wiremu Komete. He has only changed his name during last month. By a friendly Ma ri from 'Taranaki we learn that the Ngatimaniopoto are greatly incensed at their relative the half-cast ■, Nopera, being shot, and threaten to obtain sat’sfautiou by fighting if they cannot have it by peaceable means. . Rewi and tribe have left Te Kniti, being determined nob to be mixed up in Waikato quarre’s. Very latest from Wakato s'a'cs that the King says that if the Government want the murderers, let them scud Brautiigan and his soldiers to take them. "December 27. The Provincial Council adjourned yesterday. A second Appropriation Bill to carry on the public business until the 10th Jan for LIO,OOO, was brought down and passed through all its stages without discussion. The Council then adjourned till 10th Jan. A man named Dennis M'Manus, a gumdigger at Rivcrhcad, was burnt to death in his v.harc. The “Messiah” was peiformed by the Auckland Choral Society, his Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh leading the violinists. A man named Gilbert was drowned in the Waikato river yeserJay. He was in a canoe with some others and fell out. Herr Bandraann has been playing to crowded houses.