INTERPROVINCIAL.

Globe, Volume VI, Issue 618, 12 June 1876, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

Auckland, June 10. Sir George Grey has received the following letter from the Maori King’s secretary, Te Ngakau, and other leading Kingite chiefs,:— “Te Kopu, June 9. Sir George Grey—Oh, Father, salutations to jou and to your friends. This is a message to you concerning what took place at the visit of Sir Donald McLean to this place. He begged Tawhiao to consent to certain rules for him. Tawhiao replied to him this word—That all Waikato should be restored to him. Sir Donald replied—l cannot do that ? However this is what he said—That Tawhiao should be appointed to have authority over his people and district. Oh, Father; oh, Grey, Tawhiao has already this power, but what about the land ? Let it be given back again. What is the reason the land (Waikato) has been retained i However (as to) your European agents, whom the Government people are now causing to make a disturbance, take them away, do not leave them here. This word was also said to McLean, to keep Buropeah agents from here. He has no right, and that is the reason we thought, let there be but one agent. The Maori laws have been issued, and they have proved satisfactory to the present time. What is the reason Sir Donald came to seeTawhiao ? If it were not for the Maori agent fTe Where) we should not have seen him. This is all from your loving friends—Na Wiremu Kumete, Na te Ngakare Hone Purengarenga—Na Kiwi.” Arrived—Onward, from New Plymouth. Wellington, June 12.

A general meeting of Homan Catholics was held at St Mary’s Cathedral yesterday, to discuss the question of providing education for the Roman Catholic children of Wellington. Bishop Redwood occupied the chair. The following resolution was carried unanimously :—“That the Catholics of Wellington, in union with their iellow-Catholics all over the world, fully appreciate the importance and necessity of a thoroughly sound Catholic education for their children, and in dutiful obedience to their chief pastor are determined to make every sacrifice required for that sacred and urgent purpose.” A. resolution was also carried to the effect “That immediate and efficient means be adopted to erect a large central school worthy of the Catholic Church, and a suitable residence for the Christian Brothers who are to teach.” A subscription list was at once opened, and over £IOOO subscribed on the spot. At the monthly meeting of the Wellington Teachers’ Association, letters were received from the chairman and secretary of the Canterbury Association. On the consideration of the letter from Canterbury, in re the delegates, it was resolved—“ That this meeting is of opinion that one delegate to every ten members would give an overwhelming majority to large associations, and therefore recommends that one delegate be allowed for not less than ten or more than twenty members, and one additional for every twenty members. Invercargill, June 12,

Yesterday a fire occurred in Tay street, in Meehan’s bootmakers’ shop. The entire building, comprising two shops, was burnt to the ground, and the family hotel ran great risk of being burnt. Meehan’s stock was insured for £3OO in the New Zealand Insurance Company, and £2OO in the Standard. The house was uninsured. An inquiry will be held.

Bluff, June 12,

Arrived—The s.s Albion. She left Melbourne at 1 p.m. on the 7th, experienced light winds and fine weather until yesterday; she then got a strong westerly gale ; passed Solanders 11.30 yesterday, the weather very thick and squally ; arrived at the Bluff nine o’clock this morning. She brings twenty saloon and twenty-nine steerage passengers, and 180 tons cargo for all ports, and has the English mail, ex s.s. Sumatra, on board. She sails for Dunedin at noon to-morrow. Passengers for Lyttelton—Messrs Ware, Hare, Mr, Mrs, Master, and Miss Mason, 10 in steerage. Cargo—4s tons.

[from our own correspondent.] Dunedin, June 12. The following are the entries for the Melbourne Cup : Seventy-four from Victoria; eighteen from Sydney; thirteen from Adelaide. The Victorian horses include Strop, Wollomai, Dilke, the Ace, Gloom, Haricot, Sultan, Newminster, Break o’ Day, Imperial, Regalia, Canterbury, Robin Hood and Melbourne. The Sydney horses, Kingsborough, Valentia, and Neredah. Ihe Adelaide hoi’ses, Impudence, Emulation, Vain Hope, Richmond, and the Hook.