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Evening Star, Issue 3205, 29 May 1873, Page 2

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

[From the New Zealand Press Association,)

Auckland, May 28. Mr Mackay left again for Waikato early this morning. All remains quiet. A public meeting at Ngaruawahia, largely and influentially attended, resolved to petition the Assembly to extend the Auckland aud Waikato Railway to the confiscated boundary without delay. It is reported that Mr J. S. Macfarlane is a candidate for the Superintendence and for Mr M'Leod’s seat in the Assembly.

Napier, May 28. Two sons of. Mr Yarding, of Mount Vernon, have been committed for trial for having under their father’s instructions destroyed a bridge on the public road at Havelock.

Christchurch, May 28.

In the Provincial Council last night, resolutions were carried that the Province should be represent*d by an Immigration Agent in the United Kingdom; that instructions regarding the number and description of the immigrants required should be given by the Provincial Government, subject to the approval of the General Government; that all expenses of such agency should be paid out of the immigration loan; that the system of free passages should extend to persons nominated in the Province ; and that the Superintendent be requested to place JL2O 000 on the Estimates for the purpose of promoting immigration to the Province, iu case an arrangement cannot be made with the General Government in accordance with the above resolution. The Select Committee on the importation of cattle reported that it was inexpedient to prohibit the importation of stock to the Province, but that a quarantine ground should be set apart; that a certificate of soundness should be required before cattle are shipped for the Province ; that cattle should be inspected before landing, and all diseased animals destroyed. A resolution to place L 1,700 on the Estimates for a College was unanimously passed.

Wellington, May 27. Mr Murdoch, inspector of the Bank of Zealand, has telegraphed to the Colonial Treasurer that the minimum fixed for the four per cent, loan iu Australia of L9O 10* was 10s too high. The tenders received in Sydney were for a total amount of L 432,600. of which only LSOO was tendered for abovt the minimum ; the remaining offers ranging from LBS to L9O ss. In Melbourne, tenders were received for L 350,000, of which L 4,000 reached the minimum. The balance ranged from LBO to L 9., but between the date of the opening ol the tenders and the departure of the Tararua L 26.000 had been taken up ai the minimum.

May 29. £ Sent 1.45 p.m.; received 3 40. The aailmaker of the ship St. Andrew Castle, has just been picked up drowned in the harbor.

The Government received the following telegram from Raglan yesterday:—“ The Natives held a mewing to express their views in regard to the murder of Sullivan. One and all condemned it, and the following resolution was passed and signed by eighty-four Natives of position : - * We, the persons whose names are hereunto signed, consent to become soldiers to protect the Europeans in their district, and to go in pursuit of Pnrukutu, b: causo we are' ranch annoyed with these murderers’ acts. ’ ” Assuranccs have also been received that the Uriweras will not again jofti the King party. Commenting on an article in the Canterbury Press regarding the probability of the Government proposing large constitutional changes, the Independent this morning says it has authority to state that the Government have no intention whatever of proposing to Parliament any measure involving constitutional changes. It is possible that circumstances may make it necessary for the Government to submit measures for remedying certain defects in the constitution .of Provincial but they will be mere in the direction of increasing the efficiency of existing institutiona than impairing them.