LATEST THAMES NEWS.

Waikato Times, Volume III, Issue 147, 17 April 1873, Page 2

LATEST THAMES NEWS.

(Jra!iiiiii--lo\\)i, Monday, 8 p.m. The Volunteer l\o\ icw w.n very spjrsuh utu-iidcd. The District Prizes were distributed. Fir»t set (sixteen prize*) : Fust prize, Lieutenant llicks (Rille Hungers), CS ; second prize, Volunteer C!l11 (Third ll:iur:iki llillc»), to ; siggregate, seven prizes, £1! Nn-ond v.'t (twenty jui/.1-^) : First pri/.e, Kichards (Naval 1 -). L'.j ; M'cond ])nze, Me:iiN (X.nnls), Jt:3 ; aggregato pn/e>, 1-1 ?v<'>v Zi-nland AVnr AfeiLil-. «rre pre1 rented to Jre-»i> .Moirisou and Kemp (ScLond HamuLi Jti«lc»). At tlie l'olice Court to-day the case iiganist ]lonn >f. Lee, late secretary to tlie Odd Fellows' Lodge, was e.iiled. It appears the nilorniation was laid by HagnaU, tho now secretary, and signed In Ilibble, one of the lodue's tru-itees, but w lien called upon Ilibble refused to swear to the information, ami the accused was discharged. Tlie bt earner Knterprise Xo. '2 made an excursion trip to Ohmcmuri to-day. She «a» crowded.

I iii'-dai , 8 p.m. \n immense meeting 11 lx'in^ hi Id to ni^lil tit llic Tlicatie Ro_\ul, to licar Mr C. F. Mitchells explanation about tlio opci'ing of Ohiuenmri Mi- Al.udon.-tlii, solicitor, U m the chair. Air Mitchell, m a declamatory addiev,, pleJged himself that tbe country was virtually opened, and produced one pei nut fiuiu l!»c chief llapihona in the form of a receipt ibr All from Daniel Ijcahcy, and witnessed by Louis Dihart. Mr Mitchell condemned the Government for apathy, and vowed there was not such antagonism on the part of the natives as was male to appe.tr, and that the report of opposition to the late railway tying survey was exaggerated, the survey besng opposed only by four old men and live old women. He >lso said that he Defence Minister did |all in his power to increase the complications, for no other purpose than to maintain the iniquitous Natixo Department, which wits a curse to the country. The first resolution, which was carried unanimously, was to the eiFeet that the miners received with unmixed satisfaction trjc assurance that the natives hod opened their lands for goldinming, and pledged themselves to maintain order and see justice done between themselves and the natives until the Government appoint officers for that purpose. Throe other resolutions are to be proposed. There is imu nsj ci t'lusinsm displayed. The barge built by Mr Stone to the order ot the Bay of Islands Coal Company it as partly launched this morning, and will in all probability be fairly alloat on to-night's tide. She is flue vessel of her class.