DUNEDIN.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3933, 6 August 1881, Page 2

DUNEDIN.

This day

The police here have discovered fifty packages of spurious teas ex the Kingarooma in bon.l. Professor Black reports they contain deleterious substances and proceedings have been taken against the consignees.

(FROM OUB OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

Auckland, This day. THE REPBEBENTATION BILL. Messrs Swanson, Hurst, Colbeck, Whyte and Whitaker are likely to have their electorates fixed up to their own liking, but the other Auckland Representatives are so doubtful of their cooperation, that they decline having anything to do with the Government followers, There will be some very nice fun if the measure gets into Committee.

The question of Sir George Grey, asking Ministers why the ten per cent was deducted from the salaries of all civil servants for July, and their authority for so doing, riled the Premier and his colleagues, and the anticipatory reply in committee evoked derisive laughter, members well knowing that the Government wanted it to be wired at a convenient period all over the Colony that they condescended to keep sweet with their employees in view of the general elections coming on.

It is whispered that Mr Williamson and Mr Wm. Swanson had a talk about a similar mcve re the Surrey Hill estate as that brought forward by the Mayor s but the terms of arrangement could not well be settled.

It is generally believed that all the telegrams about the Maori King's reception in Waikato to the Auckland papers come from Major Mair, who is, I believe, the Government Civil Commissioner at Auckland, and it is further hinted that nearly all the expenses connected with the so-called demonstration will come out of the pockets of the unfortunate taxpayers of the colony. The present Ministry will require a better joker card than the coming in of King Tawhiao to put before the electors when the general election takes place.