BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.
{From the New Zealand Press Association.)
Wellington, May 23. Sent 2.50 p.m. ; received 7-40 p.m. A Gazette just issued contains a proclamation dissolving the Otago Provincial Council.
May 24. A telegram received by the Native Minister from Major Mair, reports that “ Rewi has just come in to Kopua to meet Mr Mack ay, ” Purukuru has been sent for again by a special messenger, and it is said that tbn will be the last message sent to him. It is reported that Purukuru has only seven men with him, but that about seventy wil} join him it he be attacked.
AucivLAf d, May 24. Sent 2.30 p.m. ; received 3.55. p m. Government is' vigorously preparing for war. Immense stores of warlike material are being collected in the Waikato district. The general feeling is that war cannot b$ avoided, and the Natives entertain the same opinion. New rifles were served out yesterday to the Constabulary stationed in Auckland.
Great 'mortality is reported amongst thq horses in the Northern Districts,'in consequence of the late rains.
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Evening Star, Issue 3201, 24 May 1873, Page 2
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175BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. Evening Star, Issue 3201, 24 May 1873, Page 2
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