BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Evening Star, Issue 3214, 9 June 1873, Page 2

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

{From the New Zealand Press Association.)

Wellington, June 7.

The Court of Appeal gave judgment today in the Blue Spur mining case : First, that the rule obtained by the plaintiff on the 29th April, 1873, be discharged with costs. Second, that judgment on the first and second counts of the declaration be entered for the defendauts. Third, that the rule obtained by the defendauts on the 29th of April, 1873, be made absolute for a new tri4 of the fifth issue, being the issue stated upon the third count of the declaration and plea thereto, with costs. Fourth, that the injunction granted by the Court on the 7th of October, 1872, and ippdified on the 26th of March, 1873, be dissolved. Fifth, that the costs of the former trial, so far as it relates to the fifth issue, abide the event.

Napier, June 6. Mr Locke has returned from Taupo. He reports the relations of the Taupo Natives—the Ngatirautawas and the Uriweras—to the Government as highly satisfactory, and that they will assist the Government in the event of hostilities. Auckland, June 7. A large meeting at Parnell adopted resolutions in favor of the extension of the Waikato railway to the confiscated boundary. There is no news from Waikato. Invercargill, June 7. .■ 700 young salmon have been hatched out, and are thriving. More eggs are yet living. Mr Gillies addresses the electors here this evening. A domestic servant named M*Chesney has been remanded on a charge of infanticide, committed in November last. Tbe starlings and skylarks, exOberon, are thriving. ■ • 11 1 I ■" * ORAfcAMSTO wn, ; June 7. , Tookey’s mine has been drained completely dry by the Pumping Association. The object for which the pump was erected has now been accomplished, and preparations are being made to get rid of the gas, when an extensive operation will be carried on. The Golden Crown got 290 ounces from 165 tons of stone, and the Kurauui 155 ounoes, vi| 1 The Native meeting lasted three days, and very divided pptyow were expressed,. Ye^

terday a most impprtaat discussion ensue t&j||#entimenta were d vided, Jjej here again. H strongly uweithat mjßßng and selling of land fthapul cwpA JKoananui supported him, making of roads would lead to trouble. l&jM when the Crown grant had heen Hsißod, nobody but those named; in it had-nay right to interfere. Purely they could[||p|W they liked with their own. The Goyeri»w!i|it ought to use Piako and the ThamesTUvera to send soldiers to the Waikato if theyliked. /Heihana urged that the rules of the King.Should not be brought into this district. "Tie would have his land surveyed if he liked. Moananui said the lands ought not be surveyed unless the whole tribe agreed to it, no matter who the owners were. RewiandHaora.'Jfipajaid. T« Hira was wrong. The speech of Taip&ra caused Te Hira great pain ;’ he said tfiat the selling of landed rested with the Owners, and there ought only to be one law for all. Several Natives objected to surveys for railways, while others supported them. No decision was come to, and several Natives have already left. They are much? divided amongst themselves.