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Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3709, 13 November 1880, Page 2

(PBOM OUE SPECIAL COBBESPONDENT.) Auckiand, This day. Mr Coates, of the post office, has won first prize in the Christchurch sweep, value net £1,800. He is not at all events likely to feel the 10 per cent, reduction in his salary until the House meets and the new estimates are passed. PATETEBE COMPANY. A meeting of shareholders in the Patetere Company was held yesterday at the Union Bank here, when several matters of much importance was dealt with. The matter of survey was finally adjusted, and a resolution was agreed to that the whole areas available were to be sold in the London market. Mr Larkworthy the managing director of the loan company, and manager of the Bank of New Zealand, in the largest city in the world, has been deputed to arrange for the floating after he gets home. He leaves by the December mail for the old country. Suppose the sale of 25 per cent, of the land on the deferred payment system is also satisfactorily dealt with. Mr Gr. M, Eeed is going to Napier and Gisborne to inspect some blocks of land, in accordance with the arrangements he made before coming out, in the interests of intending farmers. He will do nothing in the way of going into newspaper business until his return. , BEHEADING OF A NATIVE CASE. An important concession has been obtained through the Native Lands Court in the matter of the Little Barrier Island. Some time ago it was put through the Native Lands Court at Helensville, bat after the case was disposed of, it was ascrtained that some of the real owners were omitted from the memorial of ownership. Mr J. A. Tole, solicitor, took up the subject on behalf of a couple of the aggrieved natives, and has got a rehearing. The island is a very valuable one, as it contains millions of feet of firewood and building material, and is estimated to contain about nine thousand acres. The rehearing being grauted, a number of expecting purchasers are in any thing but a happy frame of mind.