TELEGRAMS.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3430, 19 December 1879, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(Pjbb Pbess Agency.)

WELLINGTON.

This day. For the Hard-worked Bankers.

The 27th of December has been gazetted a bank holiday throughout the Colonj. ' ■;■' '" ■' ; '■■ i r I \

The King Natives.

Permission Refused to travel

through the Island.

Presentation to Mrs Mackay.

A gentleman recently from England, who intended making a tour of the King Country, and was provided with letters of introduction from the Governor and Sir George Grey, has been turned back, not being allowed to pass beyond the frontier line. Another person, a noted journalist (C. O. Montrose probably,) who had made arrangements for travelling the Hauhau territory at the close of the session, received intimation from an influential chief, be must abandon the project, permission being refused. • The Eakaia cleared for London* jester* day. Her cargo is valued at £75,195.

Mrs James Mackay, whose husband has recently been appointed Resident Magistrate and Warden on the West Coast Goldfields, was presented, at a complimentary tea meeting in her honor, with a handsomely bound Bible and prayer book.