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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 220, 24 July 1879, Page 2

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r (PER PRESS AGENCY. ; ; WELLINGTON. :':' Wednesday, Gisborne said, replying to a question, no Government land agent was allowed, under pain of dismissal, to purchase native lands for self or friends. The Premier said'that a list of the appointments in the Civil Service during the last 12 months could not be prepared, so far as he was concerned, unless the appointments were made by himself, nor could he furnish correspondence on the matter that passed between himself and his colleagues. The Premier promised to state the intentions of the Government re the timber trade in the Financial Statement. Macandrew said the Government would introduce a bill to lay off a block of land along the various lines of railway, On the motion of Hursthouse, it was agreed that all Libraries in the colony receiving Government aid should receive the Gazette, Hansard, and all Parliamentary papers free, The Maori prisoners last night created a disturbance, and to-day were insolent to Maokay, An official inquiry was held into the affair this afternoon by the Visiting Justices, and the two ringleaders were sentenced to seven days' solitary confinement, It is thought probable the debate on the no-confidence motion may close to-night, All the appeals against the Land Tax have been disposed of. No appeals were allowed, Rumored the Middle Party now number seventeen, Cooper and Brodie, tried separately for a breach of the Arms Act, were both acquitted, Cooper's case lasted till after 3, In selecting the jury eight were challenged; in Brodie's ease there were eleven challenged, but a verdict of " Not Guilty" was returned without leaving the box, It appears the Mayor was not asked to preside at the monster Liberal meeting, though so advertised, It is very probable the mooting will be a failure, Three papers out of four strongly condomn it as unwise and an intimidation to Parliament, HAWEIU. Wednesday. It is reported a large party are to occupy the plains not far from Waingongoroi and fence and build whares as if they intended to retain possession,

AUCKLAND. Wednesday, The vreck of the Taupo sold for £I4OO Good competition, Albert White, the Auckland champion, has gone to Sydney to compete with Altaian oarsmen, Fijian news states that there arc rumors at Levuka of a serious disturbance amongst tliG natives at Nateia Bay. Several an reported to have been killed, The cause of the quarrel is unknown; said to have arisen out of a death, Tinkakau depot for Polynesian immigrants, now contains only thirty-nino immigrants, notwithstanding the large number of laborers who arrived lately,