COLONIAL ITEMS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume II, Issue 109, 29 November 1873, Page 3

COLONIAL ITEMS.

(FROM THE ANGLO-AUSTRALIAN PRESS AGENCY.)

Auckland, November 21. The Basilisk has arrived from Tauranga. Commissioner Kemp has purchased 20,000 acres of coal-bearing native land at Kawakawaka, on behalf of the Government.

Mr. Williamson, the Superintendent, joined the Lodge of of Good Templars last night. Grahamstown.

Henry Rockc, charged with personation at the Superintendency election, has been committed for trial.

Tauranga. Preparations arc being made for the reception of the Native Minister.

The chiefs are elated by Mr. Williamson’s election, as being a guarantee of friendly relations continuing between the races. A large steamer is being built expressly for the Auckland and Tauranga trade. Napier, November 20.

The Napier races will be held in March, at the conclusion of the colonial prize firing, while the representatives are still there. Renata, one of the leading Hawke’s Bay chiefs, intends, it is said, to instigate proceedings for damages fixed at £5OO, against a well known individual, for the seduction of his adopted daughter. (Another report fixes the damages at £3000.) Several provincial works and many private works are at a stand-still, owing to the want of labor. The work of reclaiming the lagoon at the port and erecting wharves is begun. New South Wales has won the inter-colonial rifle match, beating Victoria by 65 points, and New Zealand by 103. The highest scores in the New Zealand team were made by Small and Christie, who scored 85 each. The highest in the Victorian company were Whalley, 89, and Nannay, 88. Sydney ': Freeman, 91, and Lamb, 90. The total scores were t Sydney, 1586; Victoria, 1521; New Zealand, 1483. Wellington, November 22. Three hundred persons sat down to the banquet given last night to the Superintendent and Mr. Bunny. Mr. Travers in the chair. The Superintendent staled that he had reduced the provincial debt by £84,000 during his term of office, and had expended £90,000 in public works. The Provincial Government are willing to accept the responsibility of settling the General Government immigrants, upon certain conditions. Christchurch. Messrs. Royse, Stead and Co. report flour at’ Ils 10J per lOOlbs in 2001 b sacks. Mill wheat, scarce at ss, f.o.U Oats, 4s 6d; butter, 8d; cheese, 7id. The Autumn race meeting will probably be held in the middle of April or beginning of May. The hawkers, bakers, and milkmen are opposing the City Council in the matter of the license tax Westport, November 22. The steamer Comerang is unable to get out of Ngakawhau till next tide. The shareholders have resolved to instruct the directory to discharge the manager, sell the Comerang, and suspend the works of the mine till better arrangements have been made.