TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5260, 1 February 1878, Page 4

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Auckland, Thursday, Rewi was present at the tangi with Tawhiao. Rewi intended to return to his own settlement, but Tawhiao pressed him to stay and receive Sir George Grey. Tawhiao took hold of llewi’s hand and said, “ Our friend George Grey is coming here, let both meet him.” Rewi, with a show of reluctance, c resented. The meeting is expected to be of a character to bury all old grievances of war. All the names of the great chiefs who were killed in war will be mentioned, and their deeds rehearsed. It is expected that the effect will be a permanent renewal of friendship between the races and the burying of the hatchet. One of the most prominent chiefs at the reception of Sir George Grey yesterday was the high priest of Tariah. At McLean’s last meeting he appeared in a Maori mat, holding Taiaha. . When pressed to clothe himself decently he replied, “ I am a Maori.” After the reception he dressed himself in the best European attire. A deputation from the Te Awamutu Board, consisting of Messrs. Sloane, Board, Roche, and Henderson, some of the oldest settlers and pioneers, who lived beyond the confiscated boundary through all the panics, rode many miles and presented an address to Sir George Grey last evening. They were courteously received. Maoris are employed making a road to Pauui. Sir George Grey and Mr. Sheehan were occupied all day at Alexandra receiving local deputations. In replying to one deputation, Mr. Sheehan said no doubt the Rating Act was framed in the interest of large property owners, but it was impossible to get the valuation clause amended in the present Parliament. The remedy was a dissolution. The Government would submit material amendments in the Counties and Rating Acts next session. The large landowners now control local elections by plurality of votes.—The Premier said the matter was really in the hands of the people. Every member of the present Ministry favored small settlers. Te Wheoro came in a war canoe with 100 men, and other large uanoes have arrived. Tawhire, brother-in-law of Tawhiao, has arrived from Kopua, and waited on the Premier and Mr. Sheehan. Tawhire welcomed them to Waikato. The Ministerial party will proceed upwards at 8 o’clock to morrow morning. A dividend of ss. has been paid in the Moanafaiari (o-day. Forty-six candidates are nominated for the Board of Education. Alexandra, Thursday. The Premier and party are awaiting the arrival of war canoes, and are not now likely to proceed across the frontier te-day. Some important chiefs also have not yet arrived, so that the King is not ready to receive Sir George Grey. The forenoon was spent in receiving a deputation and invitations to visit various settlements in the districts. i There vvill be no meeting to day, the lower Waikatos, with the canoes, who are to escort Sir George Grey and Mr. Sheehan, having only just arrived here. Te Whehanui and party, from Mok-u, are hourly expected. There is a large assembly of natives at Kopua. No reporters are to be present at the meeting with Tawhiao. Napier, Thursday.The Resident Magistrate’s Court has been occupied yesterday and to-day with an action to recover £IOO damages, brought by Dr. Dale, surgeon of the Renfrewshire, against the captain of the vessel, for assault on the high seas. .The matter arose out of an exaggerated notion ou the part of the doctor as to his position in regard to the immigrants being one of authority independent ,of the captain. The magistrate held that what the doctor considered an assault was merely a justifiable action ou the part of the captain to enforce his authority, and prevent the outbreak of a mutiny which was then imminent. Fearing bad weathevthe captain had ordered the hatches to be battened down. The doctor rushed up and dragged the main hatch off, aud threw it overboard, calling on the single men to help him, and crying “ Who is for the captain and who for the doctor ?" The captain loaded his revolver, and fired three shots in the air, t i intimidate the people. Before that the captain had taken the doctor by the scruff of the neck and pushed him on one side, which was the assault sued for. The captain and several of the witnesses alleged that the doctor was drunk. Judgment was given for the defendant, with £8 17s. costs. The accounts given by some of the respectable immigrants lead to the conclusion that there was great laxity during the voyage, and that there was improper intimacy with the single girls. The cricket match to-morrow does not commence before 2 o'clock.