IMPORTANT FROM OHINFMURI.

Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2712, 26 October 1871, Page 3

IMPORTANT FROM OHINFMURI.

The Thames correspondent of the Sou(ihe);n Or osh, writing on Oct. 12, says ; We have had Messrs Maokay and Puckey, up here for several days trying to arrange matters about the mail and telegraphic routes. They left in a great hurry yesterday on their return to Shorthand, after having settled after a fashion the above qupstipps by ob-. gaining the consent of Te Mbapauni tp carry the telegraphic li<’.e and mail along the Coast from Kaitikati, and to cross the ranges, to. come in at Uikutaia on this side. A world of pajavar and bother was expended over the negotiations, which, after all said and done, have resulted in nothing to boast about, for the line is likely to prove a bad one every way, bejng Jong and exposed, and will prove pxpensive to constructed maintain. In saying that the above arrangement is completed, I am perhaps going a little beyond the truth. Complications have already arisen : for it seems that the natives who own the laud were not consulted in the matter, and in consequence are in high dudgeon at the slight put upon them. They are making common cause to obtain utu with others, and have resolved to oppose Te Moananui and bis section, and now talk of nothing less than throwing the whole of the Upper Thames country open to Europeans. This is absolutely decided upon. You may rely upon the information being correct. A letter goes to Mr Mackay by this mail to recal him for the purpose of carrying out the arrangement. The country is to be opened for golddigging.