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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 13, Issue 690, 10 June 1869, Page 4

House op Representatives —The In dependent says that the House of Representatives will, during the present session, meet at three p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and at five p.m. on Wednesdays. Departure op H.R EI. the Duke op Edinburgh prom New Zealand. —On Tuesday last, Ist June, Prince Alfred took his departure from Auckland for Yokohama direct. The New Zealand Herald, 2nd June, says: —"Quietly, and without any parade of any descrintion, his Royal High ness left vis yesterday morning at 10 o'clock. The men-of-war saluted, Fort JBritomart responded, the Blanche manned her yards and trucks, the Ualatea's baud on "the quarter-deck played "Can auld acquaintance bo forgot," and the noble frigate, with her Royal Commander, moved majestically from her anchorage, rounded the North Head at about twenty minutes oast ten, and the Duke's visit was over. We do not despair of again, sooner or later, seeing him in Auckland." The Imperial Guarantee —lt seems that Mr Eitzherbert asked the guarantee of the Imperial Government for a fresh New Zealand loan of £1,500,000. On this subject Earl Granville writes to Sir George Bowen as follows —" Mr Eitzherbert states the grounds on which he considers that her Majesty's Government might properly propose to Parliament the guarantee of a fresh New Zealand loan, to the amount of £1,500,000. I transmitted his letter to the Lords of the Treasury, and I enclose a copy of their reply. lam bound to add that I con cur in the conclusion at which they have arrived." The following is the text of the decisicn referred to : —" Treasury Chambers, 11th March. 1869.—Sir—The Lordc Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury have had before them your letter of the 26th ultimo, submitting a request from the Colonial Treasurer of Isew Zealand, that her M ijesty's Government should guarantee the bonds of the colony to the extent of £1,500,000 ; and I am to request that you will state to Lord Granville that my Lords are not prepared to recommend Parliament to guarantee the proposed loan. i have, &c, William Law.—The Under Secretary of State, Colonial Office." The Poykrty Bay Massacre.—ln replying to .Sir George Bowen's despatch relative to the Poverty Bay Massacre, Earl Granville on the 20th June, writes as follows :—" I do not very clearly collect from your despatches the precise limits within which the apprehension of Native disturbances is considered to exist, or the number of persona now in arms. It appears to me, at this distance, that the terrible nature of the catastrophe which has occurred leads you to overrate the magnitude of the danger to the colony, more especially as your Ministry do not forward any request to retain imperial troops at the expense of the Colonial Treasury, but have preferred, as I learned from Sir. H Manners-Sutton, and, I think, very properly preferred, to send to Victoria and the other Australian Colonies for recruits." This, of course, means that wo might possibly havo got troops if we had paid £SO a head for them, and left the conduct of the war under Imperial control. In a later despatch, dated J 25th February, Earl Granville practically says that we would not get the troops if i we asked for them, even if wo paid £SO a head.