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Evening Star, Issue 3223, 19 June 1873, Page 2

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(From thf New Zealand Press Association.)

Wellington, June 18. Messrs Shaw, Seville, and C®. write to their agents here denying that Mr Morrison is, or ever has been interested in their firm. Dr Peatberston advises the departure of the following vessels Mary Shephard, for Lyttelton, on May 10; Beras, for Auckland, on May 20; Allahabad, for Otago, May 27 ; Punjaub, for Lyttelton, May 30. In all, these would take 1,200 statute adults, and applications for Australian passengers being large, a few more would probably leave for Auckland in the City of Auckland about the end of May. The Halcione was to sail for Wellington on April 18, with 256 statute adults, and the Scbiehallion to follow during May. Dr Peatberston had invited tenders for ships to leave—for Wellington, on June 5; for Napier, on June 11 ; for Auckland, on June 17; for Otago, on June 23; and for Lyttelton, on June 30. Mr Mackay reports having had a most satisfactory meeting with the Ngatiraukawa tribe. Purukutu is reported to be at Te Kuiti. Christchurch, June 18. Trent’s chicory works, at Templeton, were totally destroyed by fire this morning. It broke out at 4.10. The estimated damage is L 6,000. All last season’s crop of chicory was destroyed. There are no insurances. Auckland, June 18. At the half-yearly meeting of the shareholders of the New Zealand Insurance Company, held tp-dpy, the fifth report was submitted and adopted. A dividend of ten per cent, was declared, and Li 5,000 added to the re-insurance fund, which now stands at 145,000. Llo,ooo.wjw added to the reserve fund, and the balance carried forward to pext half-year’s account, which, after pay? iijg the dividend, amounts to L 9,045 ss. All business in the Waikato has been suspended, pending the great Native meeting on

the 28th. Purukutu and party are staying with Tawhaio’s secretary, Wiremu Hunia. Rewi hold no communication with him. An interesting meeting was held last night at St. Paul’s Church to welcome and wish “God speed” to the Melanesian missionaries Revs. Messrs Selwyn and Still, prior to their departure for the Norfolk Islands. Napier, June 18. The Provincial Council have passed resolutions to the effect—lst. That the appointment of a second Native Lands Commission is undesirable, as calculated to foster excitement and discontent; 2nd. That the agitation for a second Commission, and the unsatisfactory state of the Native mind generally, is mainly attributable to the mischievous course adopted by the flon. H. R. Russell and Mr Sheehan, M.H.R., in their recent intercourse with the Natives; and that it is notorious that Mr Russell for some time has been sowing the seeds of dissension between the races; 3rd. That the Council requests that the representatives of the Province will bring the matter before Parliament, with a view to adopting means to check the evils complained of. Nelson, June 18. The Examiner has published a letter from Admiral Rous on the Peeress disqualification question. The letter says the disqualification by the Canterbury Jockey Club was a violation of the law which protects private property. No horse can be disqualified unless it has been fraudulently run, or entered under a false desoriptiop.

AupiSWUffD,. June 18. The fire andvnarnM> by the New Zealand Insurance Company daring the past half-year amounted to L&fs2l. The appeal against the Education Act has been heard in the Supreme Chart, and judgment reserved until the case against the validity of the Wellington Education Act, now pending before the Appeal Court, is decided.