NATIVE INTELLIGENCE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume V, Issue 61, 14 March 1870, Page 3

NATIVE INTELLIGENCE.

We (Hawke's Bay Herald) learu that on Monday the Mohaka natives, supported by about 30 natives of Te Apiti, Wairoa, advance on Waikaremoana, by way of Pui ere. This expedition will number about 80, aud will, after scouting Die south side of Waikaremoana Lake, join the Wairoa expedition -at Onepolo. Ropata and his men, who marched from Pututahi last Tuesday, must by this time be well into the Urewera country, and have doubtless been engaged before this. The difficulty of communication will prevent our receiving early advices of what takes place at Waikaremoana.

William King. — The Taranaki Herald says " Wiremu Kingi (William King), notorious from the part he took in bringing about the Waitara war, is now rendering every assistance in bis power to tbe Cape Egmont Flax Company." Some of our southern contemporaries have beeu copying this paragraph, but from what journal it originated we cannot tell. However, we may state for the iuformatiou of our contemporaries that Wiremu Kingi of tbe Waitara war notoriety is not tbe individual who is rendering every assistance to the fiax companies on the coast, but a native who is known as Wiremu Xingi of Umuroa. Wirerau Kiugi of Ngatiinaru is tlie native "who was concerned in the Waitara war, but he never shows near the European settlements, or communicates personally with the white population. — Independent.

Poisoned Sugar. — We (Wellington Independent) have been favored by the Hon. Colonial Secretary with a copy of the correspondence between him and tbe Chief Secretary of Victoria relative to the late importation of poisoned sugar. It seems tbat the Governmeut sent over to the Melbourne authorities asking them to investigate the matter, and the Chief Secretary, apparently unaware that the affair had since been satisfactorily cleared up here, writes back regretting that all efforts to trace the mode by which arseuic came to be intermixed have been unavailing. As the arsenic got into the sugar on board the steamer on its way to New Zealand this failure is not surprising. A report from the Chief Commissioner of Police, Melbourne, and also one from the Government Analyst is inclosed. The latter officer says : Having examined every portion of the works, and the different process of purification used, 1 have no hesitation in stating it is quite impossible any arsenic could have become mixed with the sugar at the manufactory, but such admixture (if any) must have been made after leaving the establishment.

Fiji Visitors. — The Auckland Advertiser gives tbe following description of the two Fiji native gentlemen wbo, on Monday, honored the Prince of Wales Theatre with theii\ presence, and perambulated Queen-street at the fashionable hour yesterday afternoon. They are fine looking specimens of humauity, although apparently built in a less stalwart mould than Maoris. The expression of their countenance is good-humored and prepossessing, and their beads were surmounted with sandy colored wool. They appear a cross between a nigger aud Maori, with a touch of the Red Indian, and are somewhat the color of a weather-beaten brick wall. They are usually accompanied by a European, who appears to be tbeir guide, philosopher, and friend, and displays great diligence in " showing them life." On their return to Fiji they will no doubt carry back to their tawney relatives and friends, glowing accounts of their sojourn in New Zealaud.

, Oir December 13, the House of Representatives, at Washington, passed, by 120 votes against 42, a resolution against the renewal of the Canadian Reciprocity Treaty.

'The Widow of ; Abraham Lincoln is about to marry a Chamberlain of the Grand Duke of Baden, Count Schueidenbutzen.

An Illustration of Orange Loyalty is furnished by a Birkenhead newspaper. At a recent meeting of oue of the local lodges, the "reading of a portion of God's word" was followed by the reading of the Coronation Oath, with' divers comments thereon by Brother Jobson. The oath, said this loyal brother, had been most shamefully violated ; und their obligations to the Queen were, he added, now at an end. Btother Harper, as "W. M.," deemed it his duty to give a more pronounced deliverance on ihe point, and for the guidance of his friends in this quarter we shall quote his speech. It is as follows : — " Woi thy Deputy aud Brethren. We hitherto havo been a political as well as a religious society. Now things are very different. For the future we are a religious society only, and in our organisation we must know and support our friends only, in independence of any State or power, to the best advantage of lhe Protestant reformed religion. I have always been brought up iv loyally, and taught to consider as a most, heinous crime any departure from the respect, accorded to our Royal ruler, but since she so far forgot herself as to sign that rascally robbery bill (as did also the Prince of Wales) my allegiance is at an end — (hear, hear, and cries of "'same here,") — therefore I propose to the health find success of onr saiior prince, * The Duke of Edinburgh.' "