SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 868, 11 December 1877, Page 2

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

*■■':•■ |oiiAu(^^ND,:la^t night. The JE^h(9mop^ froaij Wellington, has^ arrived, .: ,^,fnqs 'V^tiliaH^nV Coii^Kentiy, Dr" l^l'lenf .Messrs Otiamberiain, Kowe, MactarLine, Pole, Di^n* 1, Sw .0.30:1, H.amlin, O'Rorke, Gillies. • '•'^ : Ohriswhuruh telegrarns say that ,the 1 Gan&erj>ury ; cricket team are coining he.-e on the 23 and 29ih, ' ti play the Andlclindvn'i. . Ij ROTORUA. " TuflT-Rdborua liativ.. Cmndl hejd a rajeting-, and co- • i iced T» mate Rapera m ma^ex v iu uaiive affirm. ; .Ai/jor /JB^ »ir, officer, and several European setblers were presaut -by invitation of the Council. It was decided tUnt surveys were to be kept in abe anoe until after the January meeting, whoii the Council would be pr^parad to declare their policy. The Spoiler re id from iheplintel speeches of Governor 3i^Cv(Sie,\l asi's MjLai ., nn I Pollen, rjiWtitying tiiem in their c >uwe -ol obstruction^ The Cjxucil reserves to itself power 10 de.il wit:i land :and liW courts, Hnd -all nicit^ers wherein natives . are interested. They declare allegiance to Queen ■"yiotbrii. bub claim .tho right to inauage their ' own affairs without interference, and that this oonltiO' hWI been f.iroei upjn them by the ltite Governraeiit, - ? The meeting w.is very orlyrly. laupo. Snirt sh>ok of earbhqiake w.is f»lb on B.iturd iy lasting ;i ojnstdirablo ti'ue, * 80 f Umi^e"wi3 don©. ■Japbiiin Turner le vas f.»r Oruinui no complete, the sin yey of Hukiu block. THHiaOVEIIXOR AND MrtfISTJERS.—A. D£sSJuC7riJ^. . Wellington, Friday. For some week.s past a very anirn'ited correapon lehoe has been .lii-riel on betwoan the Govariior anl Sir Gaor£e *G: ey 0 V the qnes* turn of a disso ucio 1, whic 1 ch» latter hus • baah uc^ing tha Governor, to grtnt at the closa of the present session. Che G )vernoi' declined ; whereupon Sir George Grey took up the p -Sit on thdt the (Jrovernor is boa id to take the *dvioe of bis co isticu i )nal advisers on all othar questions, and that the ' Pre nier of a colon/ could demand ' a ' dissolution whenever he chose. . The Governor, on the other hand, maintain*) tint the pjwtjr of diss >- lotion U the special prorogi ive of the Crown, and. infirm* Sir Gaorg' that lie, as Cr )wn repres^n ative, will exercise such prerogative at his discretion. The correspondence will , be laid before both Hjusw. NAPrER. An attempt waß m-ide to throw the train off the line this numiug ac Pakipaki some 60J yards from' the station and very near to a n itive settlement. rf-ver;*! sleepeM wen* place J <>n the line evidently with the object of thro viug the train in! o the creek beneath. The obstructions were disc jvered" and removed before the train came up.