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Evening Star, Issue 3492, 2 May 1874, Page 2

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. , _ . Auckland. May 1. Captain Fraser, Magistrate and Warden, at the Thames, who entered a criminal action for libel against the * Auckland Star * called a meeting of Ms friends last night. S it waf re solved to withdraw the action if the ‘ Star’ wil 1 apologise, and pay LSO to the Hospital The in reply, says if Captain Fraser will A P ,?lvf t S e p ,°il ce > and P a y LSO to the Auckland Orphans’ Home, it will allow Mm to drop the case. mi?" • Pro YM c iM Council was re-opened to-day. The Superintendent, in a lengthy message, referred to the efforts made by the Government to prepare lands for settlement. He proposed to throw the lands atWhangarei open for free selection under the Homestead Act. During his visit to Poverty Bay the Government wew strongly impressed with the evident necessity CfclV a to divert the trade est^diS? A dls l fcnct PiMt-station would be also at Tauranga. During the visit to Wellington, arrangements will be a f d if B t p tra ? sf ? r 1 foreshore at the Thames to the Provincial Government: also for an adto tbt p L4( ?’ 000 f ro “General Government to the Province, to be repaid out of the land SS “ftP of JAOOO to test the deep levels of the Thames, pending the sanction oi , L 50 ’ 00 £. by the General Assembly. AUe Highway Bill, empowering Boards to borrow, and an Education BiU will be introQuceo. He regretted the General Government had abandoned its intention to construct the Aaipara railway extension. The Council would be called upon to consider whether the Province should do so. He acknowledged the cordial co-operation of the General with the Provincial Government. The complete census remak,e population of the Province 00,500, exclusive of Maoris. Christchurch, Mayl. there was a meeting of the Board of Governors of the Canterbury College, yesterdav The deputation which attended the sittings of the University Council, at Wellington, brought up a report, and it was adopted, and a draft of tbe Bin agreed to by the University CoundlLd delegates from Otago and Canterbury was So laid on the table. It is published in to-day’s papers. > 1 ° The land salesi for the mouth ending April 30 amount to L 50.175 4s 6d. a . t ft Arrowtown, May 1. n ,,t oth «fi re occurred here on Wednesday night. The estimated .damage is L4O. The Coroner s inquiry lasted over Thumday and toSn^ t 3 le po i nts to » dear case of moendiansm, 1 he people here have subscribed

L 325, making L 525 collected altogether to aid the persons whose property has been destroyed by incendiaries lately. Meetings have been called to raise more. The Good Templar movement is extending. The Cardrona deep lead has been proved on Cottar’s cancelled lease. It is 300 ft across, and the washes said to be half-a-dwt. to the dish. Other claims are starting. There is general complaint of the absence of the Warden. _ _ Tauhanga, May 1. The Native meeting at Ohinemufcu has terminated. The grand subjects considered were what to do with the lands in order to save the race ; that the Maori King have a boundary of his own, &c. The meeting consider the questions toy complicated, and that the wrongs should be laid before the General Assembly. New Plymouth, May 1. Mr E. M. Smith, who has returned from Mokau, reports the Natives friendly. He saw alongside the river there coal and limestone. Wellington, May 2. The tender of Mr MtKirdy, of Wellington, for L 19.138, for the third section of the Masterton line, five miles in length, has been accepted. An important ruling was given in the R. M, Court this morning, re the New Zealand Steam Shipping Company and the barque Serene. Mr Travers contended that the captain and owners of ships could not be sued jointly for short delivery._ The Bench sustained that view, and plaintiff consented to be nonsuited with costs. A semi official announcement was made in this morning’s paper that Sullivan will reach England probably in a few weeks. The * Independent ’ justifies the, course the Government took in the matter as usual and proper, and says if newpapera had a juster conception of the merits of the case, Sullivan would not _ have been shut out from proceeding to San Francisco. The authorities there would have been acquainted of his coming and character just as the English authorities are already made acquainted. The Government adapted the course only after the case had received the highest consideration possible to give it in the Colony.