NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2685, 15 November 1882, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND.

WELLINGTON, November 15. The Wanaka, with the English mail, left New Plymouth at three o’clock tins morning, and is expected to reach here about ten to-night. It ha~ been arranged that the Hawea will be delayed to convey the Southern portion, leaving as soon as the mail is transhipped. AUCKLAND, November 15. A rumor is current at Te Awamutu that ■George Savage, Mr Toles’ servant, supposed to have been accidentally drowned in the Puni on the sth instant, was murdered by a Native named Pukekora. It appears that a Native named Maniopoto stated in an hotel at Kihikihi on the 13th instant, to a lad named Benjamin Ward, that Pukekora had killed Savage, and threw him into the river. The statement has reached the cars of constable Gillies (the man who arranged Winiata’s arrest and captured Pakara and Epiha), and he brought Ward and Maniapoto together, when the latter denied all knowledge, as Pukekora is now in the Native country ; but the police believe the story deserves -credence. The prizes distributed at the Devonport xegatta amounted to .£320. Wahanui, feeling the heavy responsibility which he had taken upon himself at the recent meeting, when he assumed the whole burden of Kingism and also the power and right to stop the tide of settlement if it so pleased him, has called a meeting of the most prominent chiefs who elected the first Ijing. Pototoni Potau was elected by all the great chiefs of the southern portion of the North Island. Since the war a large number of tribes who concurred in the election have seceded, and sold their lands —such as the Ngahirikiwa, the Taupo, and Wanganui Natives. Wahanui, however, has decided to bring together as many as possible of the chiefs or their representatives who took part in the election, and it is surmised be means to point out that they have deserted the King, and to say that if an arrangement is to be made with the Europeans it had better be done with the consent and at the instance of all those who conferred in the election of Potau. Mr J. T. Mackelvie, of London, who has already presented several thousand pounds’ worth of works to Auckland museum, has purchased several art treasures at the Duke of Hamilton’s sale, and has sent ' them to Auckland in the ships Loch Urr and Loch Fleet. They comprise two pictures, one by Guido Renton, and another by Stanfield, besides a collection of Roman glass, marble, and antique articles found in recent explorations.