LATEST FROM KAWAU.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 271, 16 November 1874, Page 2

LATEST FROM KAWAU.

TELEGRAM TO SUPERINTENDENTS. [Br Pigeon Express.] Bless you, my children ! Live for ever ! Macaulay's New Zealander ou London Bridge will be a Superintendent. Trust in Provincialism and sell the land ;•— especially unreclaimed iand. Cash first and reclamation afterwards. Borrow much aod spend more. Greatness always draws on posterity. Draw, then ! Six infant nations (see Constitution Act) depend wholly on you for nourishment. Freedom appeals to you for protection from the dagger of despotism. Farewell, progenitors of presidents ! I have just heard that tbere are Constitution Amending Acts. Of course, if tbey amend they must render provincial institutions, if possible, more secure, but I may as well look at them. Pray send me copies, and credible information current at corners of streets about Yogel.

Send telegrams (collect) direct to the Throne, reviewing origin and progress of local self- government in the world, and iis perfection in provincial institutions in New Zealand. Parliament will vindicate your birth-right, and pay the cost of tbe telegrams.

Kawau must be relieved from taxation for local and general purposes, otherwise I shall petition her Moat Gracious Majesty to constitute it an independent province, with myself as Governor and Superintendent of the same. My presence [Here the writing is bb.ibarated for several lines, by reason of tbe wind, that blew and tbe rain (hat beat against tbat Bird of Freedom in his incontinent

flight from the Kawau Hermitage to the chief seat of Superinteadentalism in Wellington. When captured, tbe bird waa greatly exhausted by reason of the weight ot the message of State, of which he was' the bearer. Perfect, repose at the Hutt, it is hoped, will quite restote him. Indeed, his captors expect that he wili be in full feather and ready for a return flight in a few days.]— A'. Z. Times.