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Temuka Leader, Issue 2647, 17 April 1894, Page 3

Illegal Sealing. The Government have decided to send the Hinemona on her return from Raratonga to protect the sealing at the Auckland and other islands, and the cable repairing steamer Terranora will be fitted up to carry on the lighthouse and other work now done by the Hinemoa. The latter vessel will remain at the islands as lorur as her presence is required to prevent poaching. New Zealand’s Prospects. —Mr Carroll representing the Europeans, and Wi Pere the natives of Gisborne district in Parliament, were banquetted at Gisborne on Thursday evening. In response to the toast of “ the Parliament ” Mr Seddon made a speech in which he announced a surplus.of £200,000 for the year just ended. He said he had just received a cablegram from England containing the gratifying intelligence that the credit of New Zealand at Home never stood higher than it did at present, and for the first time in the history of the colony New Zealand 3J- per cent debentures had reached par. Both the Premier and Mr Carroll expressed the opinion that a solution of the native difficulty would be easily attained, and expressed their intention of thoroughly grappling with this big question.