(FROM THE NEW ZEALAND FREES ASSOCIATION AND ANGLO-AUSTRALIAN PRESS TELEGRAM COMPANY.)

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 59, 7 June 1873, Page 2

(FROM THE NEW ZEALAND FREES ASSOCIATION AND ANGLO-AUSTRALIAN PRESS TELEGRAM COMPANY.)

AUCKLAND. May 22. The prospects in Waikato are darkening. Well informed Maoris and others express a general opinion that the building of fortifications on each side means war, and that ere long the first hostile shot will be fired on the Maori side. The Preu unanimously demand the seizure of Tawhiao as a material guarantee for the surrender of the murderers, and the formation of a base of operations, in view of* the outbreak of hostilities. May 29. Messrs. J. 8. M'Farlane, Dusk, and Williamson will contest the Superintendency. There is * report officially communicated to the Government that seriously implicates Mr. C. O. Davis in connection with the attack on Mr. Mackay. May 31. Mr. Buckland reports fat cattle in excess of requirements, 138 being penned, and prices lower. Fat sheep are scarce at higher values. Dairy cows, £6 10s to £9; calves, 29s to 325; yearlings, £2 5s to £3; three-year-olds, £4 15s to £5 12s; cows, £3 2s to £»; fat cattle averaged 24s per lOOlbs; fat shetff> 4d per lb; long-woolled ewes were withdrawn at 28s; cross-breds fetched from 24s each.

Advices hare been received from England stating that three-fourths of the capital of £1<X),OOO of the coal company at Miranda redoubt, opposite Grahamstown, lias been subscribed in London, and the remaining fourth han been reserved for here. Working coal there will be commenced immediately. There are also large deposits of iron on the ground, and blast furnaces to work these will be erected. It is stated that Mr. Searancke, the Resident Magistrate at Hamilton, has been instructed to issue warrants for the apprehension of Sullivan’s murderers. It is believed that the execution of the warrants will be entrusted to natives. Fiji news states that the Government Forces have been successful in upper Rewa; fourteen villages of the rebels were sacked, the Government losses were slight. WELLINGTON. May 29. Government telegrams state Mr. Locke has returned from the Uriwera country. A great meeting was held at Ruatahuna. The L’riweras ray that they will never again join the king ; t hey will hold a meeting to settle the disputed boundary. May 31. Judge Rogan has laid a criminal information against the proprietor of the Wanganui Herald. The Colonial Government p.s. Luna has gone to Auckland to bring the Hon. Saul Samuel, the Postmaster-General of New South Wales, to Wellington. Dr. Moncton’s lease of the Auckland Islands has been signed. He intends to establish a sheep and cattle station there to supply whaler’s and will also carry on sealing. WANGANUI. / Muy 30. The Grand Steeplechase, £lOO, resulted as follows:—Quicksilver, 1; Rustic, 2 ; Old Jack, 3. Trial Steeplechase: Melrose, 1 ; Corsack, 2 ; Happy Joe, 3. Aranoho Steeplechase ; Quicksilver, 1; Boy-in-Blue, 2 ; Shy lock, 3. (from the hawke’s bay herald’s own correspondents.) TAURANGA. May 22. Great preparations are being made in 1 lie king co intry. The kingites are prepared for the worst. Rewi will be compelled to join the rebels. May. 31. The news that a warrant had been issued for the apprehension ;of C. O. Davis, charged with instigating the murder of Mr. Mackay, has caused much indignation here. Davis spent several days at Te Kuiti previous to Governor Bowen and Mr. M'Lean’s visit to the Waikato, and it is now supposed for the purpose of preventing the king’s intended interview with the Governor. Colonel Russel indignantly refused to supply the local press here with any information respecting his visit to this district. The Times takes Colonel Russell severely to task in to-day’s ssue. AUCKLAND. May 27. There are large supplies of ammunition and all other necessaries at Hamilton and the other A.C. stations in the Waikato. All those tales about there being no ammunition and so forth were untrue, and it is difficult to understand how they arose, unless invented by “ panic-mongers.” It appears that every armed post in Waikato has been always kept more than well supplied with ammunition, &e., for at least the last three years. It further appears that when we heard of Sullivan’s death, there was a large reseive of ponder, Ac., in Waikato. CAMBRIDGE. May 22. Mr. M'Dougal and two of the Native Contingent have just arrived from Poverty Bay, via Napier and Taupo, bringing forty horses, which will probably be sold here to the Government, and they are much wanted. 'They have been ten days coming from Napier, in consequence of not taking the main road.