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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3186, 6 May 1879, Page 2

In another column appears a long description of Te Kopua and its surroundings, and some interesting news of

the meeting there, supplied by our special correspondent, who evidently, intends tq keep us well posted in the doings of the Premier and the Sing, irrespective of cost. The meeting now being, held at Te Kopua is perhaps one of the most important koreros beld in the colony since the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, and, it is to be hoped, that one of its results will bo the placing of the relations between the two races on a

belter footing- than hitherto, and thereby infiictVdeath blow\at the roots of Maori

Instbuctions have been received by Mr Beere to prepare letting another section of the Thames and Waikato Eailway. This is good news, and we trust that the contract will be let before the wet season sets in.

The Enterprise leaves Grahamstown Wharf for Auckland at 7 o'clock this evening.

The latest from "the front" is that the natives are organising a troop of cavalry, and already have mustered a very respectable corps. We" (Kangitikei Ad-" vocate). are informed by one of the most influential settlers in the Waihi, who has a very large interest in that district, that his opinion is— and his opinion has considerable -'weight—that the. present unsettled state of the native mind will calm dowfi,' but only temporarily. He says that from the preparations they are making there is no doubt they mean to fight if any provocation is given. This organising of a cavalry corps is a sure indication that they will oppose fpuce by force. The troop, we: hear, is well mounted,: well armed, and very well disciplined and drilled.

r The Lyttelton Times;state» that a number of bones closely;. resembling human ,bones, ; but of much smaller .size, the fibula or leg-bone being only three inches long, hare been found forty feet below the surface in the sandstone formation on the bank* of, the ri?er Waiau, Amuri. They are in good preservation, are adult's bones, but do not belong to any known animal.

DiTßiNa the visit ot His Excellency the Governor to Queenstown, Lake County, looi Chinese residents presented '•' ran address of welcome to Sir HeVcules, in which reference-was* made to the antiChinese movement. The celestials piled on the ajgony--with reference to the Governor's equity, justice, piety, and beauty■< with'» more thaa - Ariglb-Saxon thickness.

'*' "!s} ! jpQNTEiE.uioB i'pf!.'":Gossip,' * ,^to ttie Bendigp. Independent writes as follows : —" I see \ ithatj ther Gpvernmeni have raised'the reward for the capture of the Kellys to £4030, and not a moment too soon, as they have -been spending the enormous sum of £2,000 per week over the search for them since it began. They have ,nov;spent ! Truly Ned K?|ly has been a trouble. Some of the sharp ones hare a project on foot which,_though indecent', 'will no doubt pa^. well.'f'? It^'is to bring Ned Kelly's sister,) Kate, to Melbourne, and to make her a barmaid! Heaven* save tbewretched girl from such a fate ! - -

According to the Democrat, San Francisco.is to be the'first city- whose , streets are to be lighted entirely by the electric light. It is proposed to diyide the city into districts, varying in extent from one to three miles, each'of. which will be fed by a sufficiently powerful Gramme machine. The machines have already arrived at New York, and arrangements hare been made for adopting two or three different patents. The Electrician says: —" The experimental trial of the electric light at the works being executed at the port of Havre lias given complete satis--faction'. Without waiting/ for thejreport ; of the; committee ;nominated -, by r the, French Board of Works, the 'Chamber of Commerco has ', authorised the establish-' ment of ten lights in the outer port." _'_