SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

Waikato Times, Volume XIII, Issue 1129, 18 September 1879, Page 2

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

[PHESS AGENCY.] RANGIRIRI, Wednesday. Mr F. Edgecumbe, surveyor, has been engaged surveying near Waikare lake. On Saturday, some natives told him not to continue, as the Maori Kings' ..orders were — "No more roads, no surveys." On protest being made that the land was not within the Aukati line, the natives said the Aukati lines are now abolished, as Tawhiao claims the whole island. Mr Edgecum.be since offered one of the natives 8s per day to help m survey. He accepted, but, afterwards all the natives left to hold a consultation up the Matauhuru. The land belong 3 to the Government, and the proceedings of natives are regarded as a joke, as they are few m numbers and very friendly. AUCKLAND, last night. The Premier telegraphed, m reply to Mr Tole, that subsidies to local bodies, due next month, will bo paid as soon as possible. CHRISTCHURCH, Tuesday. A good deal of talk has been occasioned to-day, by a very plain spoken article m the 'Lyttelton Times' this morning, from the pen of its well known travelling correspondent, on the Dunedin fire. He gives some facts about the building which were not hitherto known here, and the reported arrest of Waters and the turn the inquest has assumed, gives great significance to his remarks. UNEMPLOYED IN DUNEDIN. DUNEDIN, Tuesday. The city members received the following telegram to-day, from the Minister of Public Works: — "I have communicated with Mr Blair, with the view of providing immediate employment for those on whose behalf you have wired me. I apprehend that the unemployed m Dunedin now consist largely of those who would desiderate the possession of small holdings of their own, which could so far place them beyond the vicissitudes of the labour market, by affording them the means of providing food for themselves when, not working for others, It;

is, therefore, proposed to be sought from the Legislature to lay off at once village settlements adjacent to some railway lines, on the construction of which employment will be found. lam m hopes that by this means we may largely remove tho number of unemployed m a country ; m which the term should be practically unknown. — J. Maoandrew."