THE LATEST.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3461, 28 January 1880, Page 2

THE LATEST.

Humors re Mr Sfceeaan's Movement Confirmed.

A Special Settlement.

(Peb Pbess Association.)

Auckland, This day.

Mr Sheehan proceeded to the Waikato last night, where he will enter into partnership with F. A. Whitaker and W. H. Grace to pass through three hundred thousand acres of land in the Patetere

district, most of which is fit for cultivation, Fifty thousand acres are to be special settlements. Messrs Whitaker, Douglas, Walker, Eich, Jackson and others, who have advanced separately on their land, have agreed to combine, and they hope that the Government, which hag also advanced, will abandon its claim by arrangement with them. Many of the blocks overlap, and the natives have taken money from all sides.

Great reductions are being made in the salaries of the JNntive Office officers, Native assessors, and others.

Paul, of Orakei. will receive a life pension* of one hundred a year, instead of three hundred a year as salary. The Government refuses to abolish the tolls in many Counties.

Our Railway. Second tenders for the section of the Waikato-Thames line to the Thames Hirer will shortly be called for. Great dissatisfaction is expressed that the Government hare not replied to the telegram from the Chamber of Commerce urging the resumption of the railway reclamation contract, as the earth is rapidly silting up the harbor for want of protective works. At the Waste Lands Board yesterday a resolution was passed approving of grant* ing the Te Puke land to Vesey Stewart. Russell's Claim.

A telegram from the Government desired Board not to deal with Bussell's claim to the Te Aroha land pending inquiry.

A heavy pxioe for Land.

The Board agreed to open the unsold block of Te Aroha land on deferred payments at two pounds an acre.