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New Zealand Mail, Issue 21, 17 June 1871, Page 11

Tabanaki. —ln opening the Provincial Council, His Honor the Superintendent concluded his opening speech, thus:—" la conclusion, gentlemen, I may say, that notwithstanding our many years of trial and difficulty it is evident that we are entering upon better days. The native question, so long the source of all our troubles, ha 9 under the present administration quieted down, and is likely to become a thing of the past. The favorable way in which the loas has been responded to at home, cannot but inspire us with confidence for the carrying out of the public works and immigration proposition of the Government, which the Legislature has endorsed. The Caledonian Cold MiNE.-i-The " Lyttleton Times" says it would be a strange coincidence if the quarrel between the manager and shareholders of theabove named—reported in our last telegram from Auckland—should prove, as in the case of the Long Drive, the prelude to a " rush downward" in the value of shares.-' If we remember the Long Drive shares had reached just about the same figure as the Caledonian when the shareholders and manager quarrelled.