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Evening Star, Issue 3200, 23 May 1873, Page 2

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(From the New Zealand Press Association.)

DISSOLUTION OF THE OTAGO COUNCIL. Wellington, May 22. The Cabinet to-day resolved to dissolve the Otago Provincial Council, and the proclamation will immediately be issued. Two meetings at Rangitikei endorsed the reparation movement. THE INVERCARGILL ELECTION. Invercargill, May 22. The following is the result of the Invercargill election : Cuthbertson 159 Wood 144 Majority for Cuthbertson, 15.

Auckland, May 22. , Sent 3.20 Infortnation^W' \t a meeting of Natives at Cwiemuri ycsterlay, a long diwttsridnensuoor about the b-»t means of tho Thames, The discussion cama to nothing. The information was for wailed' to the Government at Wellington, Sdi the; statement is generally disbelieved Ifi" * uckland. Waikato affairs are darkening, and wellinformed Native and European circles regard the building of fortifications on each <iidc as hostile to the probabilities of peace, and think that the first hostile shot will very soon be bred on the Maori side. The press unanimously demand the seizure of Kawhai as a material guarantee -or the surrender of the murderers and to form the bate of operations in the event of war;

Graham stowir, May 22. Mr Mitchell and wife, who have lived at Ohinomuri for two yearn, have abandoned the Empire Hotel there, and come in, not considering it safe to remain longer at that place. They reported this morning that the Natives at Ohincmuri hsd been consulting ( as to making a night attack on the Thames goldfields. Information was given to Warden Eraser, who telegraphed it to the Government. r . ' Christchurch, May 22. The Superintendent, in for waging to the Provincial Council a communication in reference to the proposal of the Nelson Inland Communication Committee, expressed an opinion unfavorable to granting any subsidy in land towards the construction of the-pro? posed railway, and also that the Province should not incur any liability for the construction of any railways outside its own boundaries.