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NORTHERN NEWS.

(from otjr own correspondent.) Dttnedin, April 19. The escort has arrived, bringing 8200ozs of gold. It is reported that the hon. Mr Fox will visit the goldfields, accompanied by His Honor the Superintendent. A public dinner is to be given to the Premier, when he is expected to indicate the future policy of the Ministry. Mr M'lndoe's election for Caversham is considered certain. The reports which have been received from the Lake districts are still very encouraging. The dredging of the Shotover is paying handsomely. It is reported that one party have been making £1000 a-man per month. April 21. E. "W. Grieves, a civil engineer, well connected, who has been employed dredging here, has committed suicide. A fire took place at Boundary-street. Greymouth, on the 19th. Six houses were totally destroyed. The estimated damage is £3000. There was no insurance. We take the following telegraphic summary from the Otago Daily Times : — Wellington, April llth. A public meeting was held here this evening regarding the formation of the new steam company. Captain Ehodes presided, and there was a good attendance. A resolution was passed affirming the desirability of forming a company to purchase the plant and continue the business of the New Zealand Company. Messrs Ehodes, Pearce, Nathan, Levy, Plimmer, Dransfield, and Laing were appointed Provisional Directors, with authority to make arrangements for the purchase of the old Company's plant as soon as the subscribed capital reaches £10,000. Upwards of £8000 : has been * already subscribed. Mr Martin, of the Circular Saw Company, opposed the formation of the new Company. Mr Collie, agent for Mr W. H. Webb, shipowner, New York, has arrived here. Mr Eobert Pharazynhas beenappointed Crown Lands Commissioner for the Waitotara and Patea districts. Colonel M'Donnell was married to Miss Lomax on Saturday. April 12th. A meeting of merchants is called for to-morrow to consider the question of mail communication with Europe via San Francisco. The Independent suggests that the prisoners captured by Eopata should, be sent to Otago. Messrs D. F. Main and Thomas Cass nave been appointed Commissioners to enquire into Hempleman's land claim. The time for holding the sittings of the Supreme Court for the hearingof criminal and civil cases has been altered. In Canterbury and Otago the sessions will in future commence on the first Monday in the months of March, June, September, and December. The Governor's assent to the Martin's Bay Settlement Eegulations is gazetted. Mr I. N. Watt has been appointed a Eesident Magistrate for the districts of Dunedin, Oamaru, and Clutha. The Court of Appeal will meet at Wellington on July 4th. April 13th. Mr Collie has been taken seriously ill. A very large and influential meeting of merchants and others was held to-day to consider what steps should be taken in connection with his visit. It was resolved to invite him to another meeting as soon as his health permits. He intends to make Wellington the port of call, if he can succeed in arranging with the New Zealand and Victorian Governments for a service having Melbourne as the terminus. The subsidy required for a monthly service is £150,000, of which the American G-ovemment will probably give £80,000. The service will commence one month after the signing of the contract. Mr Collie will also visit the Southern ports of New Zealand. A committee has been appointed to draw up a memorandum setting forth the advantages of Wellington being made the New Zealand port of call. Napier, April 13th. The sale of the township of Gisborne, Poverty Bay, came off here to-day. The total amount realised was £2000. About £1000 worth will be taken up to-morrow. The Star of the South arrived at 4.30 to-day at Castle Point, where she remains weather-bound. She takes 31 of the worst of the prisoners captured by Eopata and Kemp, to Wellington for trial,, as ■well as Kemp and Topia, and 360 Wanganui natives, who are returning home. The Star of the South left Mr M'Lean at Opotiki, and spoke the Eangatira off Cape Bunaway. Nelson, April 13th. A prospector's application was made on Monday for the new reef at Wangapeka, a mile distant from Culliford's, which it excels in richness. Great excitement prevails at the township, and the prospectors have been watched and shepherded all night by the miners. Eeports received from trustworthy sources regarding Culliford's claim, state that it is very rich. The prospects of the Wangapeka field generally are greatly improved. Mr Sewell sails for Wellington in the Tararua to-day. Chbistchitrch, April 13th. The nomination of Mr Moorhouse, in opposition to Mr Eolleston, for the Superintendency, was a great surprise. Strong committees hare been formed on both sides, and the contest will be a sharp one. '

Queenstown, April 14th. ' Great excitement prevails here about Martin's Bay. The road engineer left here this morning, by steamer, with about 30 men, for the purpose of forming a track to the settlement. A report reached here last night that a prospecting party from Canterbury have found payable gold 25 miles from the head of Lake Wakatip. Numbers of diggers, including Fox, the discoverer of the ATrow diggings, are proceeding to Martin's Bay. A Company has been formed on»the limited liability principle to build a stone town hall here. A Provisional Directory has been appointed. The dredge on the Shotover river is paying handsomely. "Wellington, April 14th. The Assembly is summoned for the despatch of business on June 14th. Kemp and Topia's men arrived here to-day on their way back to Wanganui ; also the Maori prisoners for trial here. The liquidators of the N.Z.S.N. Co. opened the tenders for the purchase of the plant of the Company to-day. The number of tenders received was two, the one being from the Circular Saw Company, and the other from the new Company. Neither was accepted, both beinsr below the limit determined on. The tenderers have been given till Saturday, at noon, to amend their offers. The limit fixed is believed to be £20,000. Castle Point, April 14th. The Government report of the late success is greatly exaggerated. Kemp, not Eopata, shot 18 and captured 305* of the latter of whom 200 were friendlies, prisoners of Te Kooti. The number of Hauhaus captured was 105, of whom 63 were women. Te Kooti's fighting men were unpursued, and he is as strong as ever. The friendlies have returned home. Naiter, April loth. The Eangatira, with Mr Locke, KM., on board, returned from Opotiki this morning, after leaving Eopata's people at their settlements. Mr M'Lean left the East Coast for Auckland in the Sturt on "Wednesday night. Further particulars received from Opotiki state that Te Kooti's band ia at last all but- annihilated. Nnmeri ous sections of the "Oriweras have surrendered themselves prisoners. They state that Te Kooti has only 20 men with him. - ■ ■ | The "WTiakatoheas, who lately gave Te ! Kooti 20 kegs of powder, in order to prove their sincerity in surrendering, told where the powder was buried. A party having been sent to ascertain if the information was correct, found the powder and sent it to. Auckland in the Sturt. The prisoners taken of Te Koeti's people state that he has now no ammunition, having completely gutted, all the Hauhau settlements, as well as those of the Uriweras, of this article. A Native meeting was . held by Mr M'Lean, when it was arranged that Eopata and 300 fresh men should start on Monday to scour the Waikaremoana country. Their intention is to capture the outlying TTriweras and Te Waru's force. Mr Locke has in his possession the horn used by Te Kooti to marshal his forces. It is his intention, I believe, to present it to the New Zealand Museum. [We are indebted to the General Go- ! vernment for the following telegram from Mr Ormond.] The Eangatira has returned from the East Coast. She has been of great service in enabling Mr M'Lean to wind up the Opotiki business, and to take the Ngatiporou and prisoners to the Ngatiporou settlements, &c. Mr Locke, who returned by the Eangatira, says that the effect of the late success on the East Coast has been very great. That our allies look upon Te , Kooti's influence as gone, while the doubtful natives, like the Whakatoheas, are thoroughly crushed. Maraetai, the pah taken by Eopata, was Te Kooti's chosen resting place ; he had large cultivations there as well as great native houses, and a church. A few days before he was attacked he told the people that the place could never be reached by our forces. There are only six of the Chatham Island prisoners left ; 14 were killed at Maraetai. The number of men who escaped with Te Kooti is 19. The report of the killing of Kereopa at Ohinemuri was not correct. Kereopa is with Te Kooti. It was Te Waru, the prisoners say, that was shot at Ohinemuri. He and Kereopa were dressed alike. Te Waru had his leg broken, and crawled into the bush, where he is supposed to have died. The "Whakatoheas (the 140 whom Te Kooti was said to have taken prisoners) were certainly willing prisoners of Te Kooti's. They gave him 20 casks of powder and a lot of bullets, which he removed from Opape, and hid near Maraetai. After Eopata's success, the Whakatoheas gave information regarding the hidden powder, all of which was found, and taken to Auckland by the Sturt. Eopata has taken the Uriweras captured by him at Pukeroa (Maungapowhatu), as well as Te Kooti's women and children, to his own settlement. . Some of the "Whakatoheas were taken in charge by Eopata, and some by "William King. Mr Locke says they are thoroughly crushed, and curse Te Kooti as the cause. Eopata's men are described as having suffered much from their march through the TJriwera country. Their feet are swollen and cut, and they are quite unfit to march back through the same country. Eopata is now organising a fresh expedition, taking new men from his tribe, and leaving the tired ones to rest. He is to leave the Ngatiporou settlement on Monday for Poverty Bay, with about 300 men. He will take his force mounted. He makes in from Poverty Bay to a place near Lake Waikaremoana, where the

prisoners inform him the rest of the Uriweras are. He intends to call upon the Uriweras to surrender themselves, and expects they will do so, in which case he will bring them to Poverty Bay as prisoners. If they do not submit, he will attack them at once. It is believed that Te Kooti will be with the Uriweras, but this is not certain. 1 Sopata has recommended the Uriweras to kill Te Kooti, and bring in his head, as the best way of saving themselves. # The prisoners report that all the Uriweras' powder is exhausted, and I gather that there is every probability of their submitting, or if not, of Ropata finishing them. lam sending to Wairoa, to .advise the natives there of Ropata's movements, which will spur them on to act in concert. - Mr M'Lean met the Ngatiporou chiefs near the East Cape, and formally gave up I all claims on the part of the Government I to the confiscated land in the Ngatiporou district." I refer to the old confiscation. This has been done in acknowledgment of the great services rendered by the tribe, and I think is a most wise proceeding. There is now no East Coast land question to settle, for which I am thankful, as I saw grave difficulties in the way. Some necessary reserves have, with the consent of the tribe, been made, including 5000 acres of fine rich land at Tologa Bay, fit for settlement. That gives you a summary of the news from the East Coast. I received very favorable news yesterday from Poihipi, at Taupo. He says he knows for a certainty that the Waikato wants peace. He is full of the proposed meeting, and Mr M' Lean agrees to it. He has not yet fixed the time. The trial of the prisoners at Wellington must wait till Kopata's return from his present expedition, as Porter and bthernecesaary witnesses go with him. Hakaraia's death is thought more of at the Waikato and Tauranga, than if we had got Te Kooti. Queenstowit, April 17th. A public meeting of the inhabitants of Queenstown was held last night, when a large sum of money was subscribed to fit out William 3?ox, the well-known explorer, to prospect the country between the head of Lake Wakatip and Martin's Bay. He starts on Thursday next. Welmngkeoit, April 18th. This morning a prisoner named August Schroder, a seaman from the ship Melita, was shot dead while at work with the hard labor gang, by the accidental discharge of the rifle of Mr M'Carthy, the overseer. The bullet passed through his heart. Schroder was undergoing a sentence of three months' imprisonment, with hard labor, for an assault- on the police, and his time would have expired next Saturday. At the inquest, a verdict of accidental death was returned. The formation of the new Steam Company is progressing satisfactorily. The liquidators of the old one have extended the time for receiving tenders for the purchase of the plant until Wednesday. The Wanganui Contingent had a grand war dance yesterday. They go home tomorrow in the St. Kilda and Storm Bird. Mr Collie is recovering, and will probably meet the merchants of Wellington on Wednesday. News to hand from Auckland via Wanganui states that the steamer Favorite has been wrecked. All hands, however, were saved. It is reported that Te Kooti has been offered an asylum and protection at Tokangamutu by the King, if he will keep quiet. Nelsoit, April 18th. Auckland news is to hand, but is unimportant. A crockery dealer, named Lazard, was accused of defrauding the Customs by passing articles liable to duty at the rate of Is per foot, as liable to only 3d per foot, and was fined £100. The result of the case greatly agitated him, and he actually died of excitement within the precincts of the Court. The Thames and Auckland papers contain the usual reports of crushings &c. Private advices say the field is improving. More gold is being got on an average, and the working expenses are lower. In a great many of the companies, however, no dividends are" being paid, and the calls are not met. Coromandei promises well. Specimens of stone from that district, weighing 97 lbs, produced 40 ounces of melted gold. An incendiary fire has taken place at Onehunga in a house which has been empty for three weeks. Two previous attempts to burn it had been made, and tar was found in it. It was insured for £400 in the Eoyal Insurance Company, and belonged to Mrs Pilkington, Auckland. The barque Avery arrived at Nelson, from London, yesterday. G-ood news continues to be received regarding the quartz reefs on the Lyell Eiver, on the West Coast of this province.

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Ngā taipitopito pukapuka

Southland Times, Issue 1240, 22 April 1870, Page 3

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Tapeke kupu
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NORTHERN NEWS. Southland Times, Issue 1240, 22 April 1870, Page 3

NORTHERN NEWS. Southland Times, Issue 1240, 22 April 1870, Page 3

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