NATIVE MATTERS.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume XII, Issue 496, 29 July 1867, Page 2

NATIVE MATTERS.

(I'rcfjj '.lie DAiy 3 wj.tl.erii Cross 2Ah July.) from the Upper V/aikato which is of cont'hhi..ble i:ur-oi-f!inco. It appears that t!ie :es Hakaraia and Aercopa J’.-.vc ii ; ca’-cti c-ie** bv Cambridge, end f - na i; •i- ■■, -a !!■!>•; ng nil Euro Ofins outside Joav Ii- ii■ ,»-y. and prohibit g ihu teasing i 1 ion ,'! i.,--e ii;i-ii an-ct.-irg" emu tl.iv i,ierh { iiirr.i;-, h (IV our c l:il-0 ;1 i ImUllon;-. lfa,ttkv sl!iva• i 1 U t-llislgfon, kitn-ihi; ii f c-tw i a siai.* o' an-rchv. pels being eon.'niilte I, Inn tile faieni.;- p-.v ! i) sdeu: to tho orders of the i-i-ig. Jf.dters Inti arrived nt this stage. that a great mve n.g ><; to be itel.t nt Mamm-iiiui-in lb ■ cn-uir.g we. k, to decide wlnn 5r to be none. UJi e question Id be r!i-i , uss ,, (! is wbe lii- (be natives olio o.vii laiul, ami pve w ilMio to I,ir, aid have lease i uorlioos of it, to Furopeans, will submit to the pietntion o! Kevcopi amt Hal. .rai-i, ami flri» - c oil’ (lie ruro'jieans .-ml their sleek, o■nil- lie r they will put J.jivii tli so disturber? ct tiie public pee.ee I,v foree. Tie feeling amongst the natives generally i« fil’d to ba very slrorg jn the direction o' settling the idfair by an cpncal to units ; and it v.'oul I require very liid-j in.lced tu imliice them to commence at once Jewry thing will depend up >n the dreisior arm.ed at nest w;.l; at Mk.migr.l.'iutai'i, Videss something precipitates a struggle ir. tile iv ear. time. V e regret that To Orion is dangerously ill. 11 is loss at this crisis would be serious. Tie lias great i.diuenee amongst the natives, end it has liiihevlo been exerted cm the fide of progress and sett lenient. __ Ln.iT.-Cor.. 2sn so:.'. Lieut.-Gd-un 1 JLln.ni, of the -10;Ii IKegiuicnt, a verv pali'int officer, died in England ou 2'2mli Slay. j SiiTtsTTCS.—Statistical tables, compiled; by Hr Lenict, and is-ued in nnt icipation i pf the usual yeaily velunic, show that, ore {be biht Hieeinber, 1 Stiff, the total esli I mated Lump can population of Lew Zea-j land, exclusive of the n.ilil-iry and their families, was 20!,ill, of whom 125,0e0 were nudes, and TdO't females. Tie population was distributed amongst 11 1 .• various provinces as f-dhuvs ; —Auckland. pO, 101 ; Te ••■ami l.i, -S.G2;: ; Wellington, II aw it e’s Lay, -1.520 ; Lclsoi:, To e '.l • Miirlbovoug'i. 5773 ; Canterbury, CS..ST; Otage, oi/.'lv ; Southland, 7007. Idle KcgiM'ar-Caner.'d, however, informs us, in a t.oie. 1 hat thH is only a rough approximate cal ula'ion of the population olj the various provinces. The i.umber o: I marriages c-l tainted during (ho year was—j Auckland, 51b; Taranaki, •I 1 '; Welling-1 ton, 201 : Hawke’s Lay, 5(1; Kelson, 10S ; islarlhoroueh, I'7 ; Canterbury, 511 • f'tngo, ■iS.i; Southland, 51 j Chatham Islands, 3; total, 205 A Post.'. I.. —-1 he nure.be- of loiters received At the several IV.-t Offices in the cvlom troin for ign otSc-cs, during the year istid, Vr.s sShd!!t ; now -paper?, I,iot> 351 ; received f-otn c.tlicr ..iuees within the colony r —letters, l.Sdil ; newsrapers, 70.1,177, 1 Tne numb rob 1 ,! .-patched fr nn (bel colony id- foriigit jvirls was : i newspapers clesicdebel to oftlw? within! the cobiry va, I,Si 7.771. Tue ir.r d i Or-aers i ; ne-.t oin r-.g 3umbered 22,7iu,i. representirg a vaiu •of AlUo.i 7,i H, ‘j.J. ’j AcT. Jabn lbnh> Penned.! Lsq., Legi-iim-U0... r.d, has bevu ap-l ] on.led. to v.eeive p. liC.-ns from perse ! des.rous ol t-bl ..un.g leiicis iiatcut, unde; ?l ilio Pulents’ Act. 1 ' Law l-.XAMix.\T:o?t. —J he following gen'ictuer, w; o are nr - i ■!>':; elei ks in Au.-k laud. viz. ; .'.ic-srs. Hra-sev, '! lionie, a.’ii Loartinmii, I arc sue. - •.-.'uiiv p:i--e I due examination n, ciu.-ary for acl mission to the Lew Zealand Par. I.cnrrr.T of tit I :ciox Eivt at run Guet.—The Give h.ver Argus of July 11. ?-\s: —“A robbery of a vary mv-ieri.-nul' cb.unwlor was per;.. I rated on Vue premises!, of 1 lie Li.ion Mawbcrn Quay, om: bii' llinay riil.-rnca n, b I ween the hours el . four and seven o'clock. It niirors ilia! the tribe, Mr Grundy, hit tho bank ai‘ fbort time be r or( . p,,;,. , f .v i,. 1V1 ,, iT „,, <v i vioi.slr locked up a sum of about £i7o i-.! P clraw\r ir aler t!v coimter. ] u th.-j poitvse. of the cveni. g some diggers eaip-dI upon him at tlm M.lbourno where! be rest ies, w:-m::g !o .'j.-; use of some gold,; 1 and he returned widi them to tho band; |: On going to (he onwer. be i.mnd that theimoney, which was ad in notes bad been 11 abstracted, ;!: .d fmther cxumieaiiT J 1 fhowed that 1 lie lock, w ~,.', was an ordi i ! Tai\ up.-'m.j( one, ire. been force.i oil 1 In the manager's room, v uirh k immc-'i pinrcly hffine.l ; r> ,,, r ol p C( , i ~ pinnl! win :oiv 1.-cking loin tho back vard. and tuslepo.l wish a eemmon belt •'(H. window was fernd m,iasten.nl, and’tbeiv were man;? on ihewb.l w-; i l ns if c-ut«e t ■ by a iy-ot. Tyothir.c fin the 1> mk was I 1 Violence cu tin- wnulow freoue it j« sun-!' posed the*. I’o,-,-d L it iovl Ivon left reV ! l boiteO, Ihe p y.ir l , Uv wirieh onlv ;be : • Wtndcw, > ’ q'-’-i-.m (•:•>.* he r-iehed, i 3 i‘ fcrc-cd by a i. 1... ».,J. t .f ccr. ug-.f.-d iron,! and as it is m i.r nvabate to ad-| Ruining ptemiso, it is reimivkahle that (he! Inic-f or iheiws i- uld j.! into (he vard of i £ne bank without- making nob,,, sufficient!' fo atlract ait.o.tion. Jim i'„.j ln o~t re-' £ markable f.olure of the affinr is t|, ,( jj, c !., rcfaocry cliotdd imve ooct.rr-d at a tim.ej.. pit when, cci.irary to hv u-md prnciiee tne teller negiee od to plae. ,! !0 whole c.l l bis casli in tin.- sale. Tho whole matter i 1 w’a] : i .ev 1 j.t mjStory, but the police are fuakitig a mo-ft rigid itivcsligatior., and they are nu! without hopes of tracing the ft? the ghilly party." c