Our Auckland Letter.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3728, 6 December 1880, Page 2

Our Auckland Letter.

(FEOM OOE OWtf COBUSFOKDIIT.)

Auckland, Batuxday. FOBTHIe BBDUCTIOirS In the District Engineer's offloe ate notified. Mr Stewart is expected to leare at the end of this .month; and fire other ; officers are informed that their serriees are to be dispensed with about the smae &¥;. Sr" *M* thtt *•' Minuter of Public Works has not taken adranifeo of the present farorable period of thereat for pushing on with undertakings which the members were led to beliere would be started. That it is so, however, is a fact, as the only work I hear of being authorised is the surrey of a branch line of r railway from Hamilton to Cambridge. Truly the Waipa and Waikato members are getting matters into trim in anticipation of future political farors expected. THK TA.UPO NATIYB LANDS COVBT. Mr F. A. Whitaker, the senior member of die firm of Messrs Sheehan and Whitaker, is about proceeding to the Taupo Natire Lands Court, I presume to help his oolleague re Murimutm. The business is no doubt a paying one, but from all accounts, both gentlemen are likely to hare the benefit of a second trip to tb» district as the present sitting is not likely to see the business through; one good thing in the whole business will be the additional fees and refreshen for the

suwbbssika mnrs. I send » local from ] M t Thursday Herald, showing how important news is omitted by the agents of the Pnsi Association erer since the present Gorenment hare got into office. The paragraph diaelosea the fact that we hare a plentiful supply of native difficulties to contend against. The Wanganui Herald publishes the following paragraph:—»"lfewt <• has reached town that the hatire ownen < of the land in the neighbourhood of : Tokano hare ■ tomahawked 150 sheep belonging, to .Messrs Morrin and Company. The land on which the sheep hare been running has not passed through the Court, and the land speculators ■ tare tot a shadow of title to it. Notice wife given to remove the sheep by Tawhjf) Matia and others who claim ownership tt> land. Their right was questioned, so Tawhin and his co-owners decided to exercise their right, and proceeded to kill the sheep. The land-ring, who hare coolly taken possession of rait tracts of country in the interior, are beginning to find out that eren a friendly Gorernment cannot protect them when they are trespassers. The days of natire unfenced runs, without title and no rent, seem to be closing." . .