NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2438, 28 January 1882, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND.

[PBB PRESS ASSOCIATION.] AUCKLAND, January 27. CommendatoryAt a meeting of the City Council a motion was passed recognising the services of Sereeant Pardy in connection with the arrest of Plummer, and commending him to the favorable notice of the Government. WELLINGTON, January 27. Sale of PrivilegesThe privileges in connection with the Wellington Racing Club’s Summer Meeting were gold to-day. The sum realised was £152, exclusive of the gates and grand stand. DUNEDIN, January 27. Fire. A fire occurred at Oaversham to-day, by which two dwelling-houses and the Presbyterian Church were burnt. The church was an old building, and was insured for £2OO in the Colonial. The Souths British is affected to the cxtention of £IBO. Mr Eolleston. The Hon. Bolleston arrived to-night, and intends to visit the interior on business connected with the Mines Department. The DredgeThe new dredge will be formally handed over to-morrow to the Harbor Board, and speech-making will be the order of the day. She continues to create much interest. The D-S. Company’s Cup. Ihe B.M, delivered judgment to day in the

case of Provo v the City Guards, iQ which the plaintiff claimed the Union Steamship Company's onp, which wu won by Coy at, Nelson. The judgment upheld the decision of the shooting committee, by which the cup becomes the property of Corporal Webster.

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WELLINGTON, January 27. In reference to a Pungarehu telegram published by the papers to the effect that “ The road there having been condemned there is very little doing,” I may mention it has been pointed out to me that the word “ condemned” must have been mis-sent for "completed,” as the road in question, which is the main road constructed by the Constabulary, about which so much was formerly written, has for some time been entirely finished and metalled throughout. It is now in excellent order.

Regarding the reported epidemic at Pungarehu camp, it may be worth while to explain that it is a very mild sort of feverish a'tack, and not at all due to overcrowding in camp, as there are only some thirty or forty men there now retained as a garrison. About 150 are stationed in Parihaka itself, but the greater portion of the Constabulary are actively engaged in constructing a road round the Native reserve of 20,000 acres, which has been allotted to the Parihaka people with the view to its better and mere distinctive definition. Of this block, it has been decided to clear and form a good road right round the block, instead of marking its boundaries by ordinary survey lines. The block is of course the 25,000 acre reserve recommended by the Royal Commission, less the 5000 acres forfeited for sedition. After being set apart and marked off as above described, its distribution among individual claimants will bs conducted by the Royal Commissioner, Sir William Fox. The Natives themselves express great satisfaction at this being done, and seem eager to manifest their thorough submission to the law, now that they have had practical evidence of its power. The Government frequently receive comma, nioations from leading Natives of the formerly disturbed district, expressing thoir entire willingness to abide by Mr Bryce’s decision on the land question; his vigorous policy having evidently inspired wholesome respect. One chief naively observed that he should try to get as much land as he could, but that nevertheless be should be quite content with whatever was assigned to him. Some of the Natives have been applying toTe Whiti for instructions how they should act, but so far as can be ascertained, he has refused to direct them any further than ha has dona in the past. He says his words remain, and he has nothing more to say. Mott of the Natives, however, seem disposed to discourage all reference to Te Whiti, and appear to recognise that be has failed, and their present anxiety is to make the best terms they can for themselves, and moreover many are anxiously desirous to see European settlement! progress, as they are shrewd enough to have discovered that this means large benefit and profit to themselves, and consequently the present aspect of the West Coast affairs may be characterised as exceedingly satisfactory, and promising as well as possible for the future.