LATEST AUCKLAND NEWS. [BY TELEGRAPH.—OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

Waikato Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1558, 29 June 1882, Page 3

LATEST AUCKLAND NEWS. [BY TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

Rev. D. McLeod. Auckland, Last Night. The North Shore Presbyterians have given a call to the Rev D. McLeod, who has also received a call from Waikato West. The Presbytery meet next Wednesday to moderate on the two calls. It is believed that Mr McLeod will accept the North Shore.

Mining News. A telegram fiom the Tokatea mine manager, to-day, states states that 401bs picked stone was obtained in the mine last night. In the new Prince Imperial mine the specimens obtained since Friday amount to 120H>s, as good if not better than those last crushed.

The Trunk Railway. The Star to-night referring to a telegram from Taupo, declining that Wahanui would stop the aailway from going via Mokan, explains the view Wahanui expressed at the Wliatiwhatihoe meeting and sai s : — "What Wahamu does want is restriction that will prevent secret sales by individuals holding inteiests jointly with othois in blocks of land. His demand w ill he found moderate enough, and we have good rea&on to believe no difficulty that is not easily sui'mountablc lies in the way of constructing the Te Awamutu line. The Taupo telegiani, when read by the light of another, -which intimates Topia's auxiety to get the lailwaj- cairied through his district (Taupo) is, howevoi, a fuither indication of the way the stiings are being pulled in favor of the Taupo loutefor the trunk line. That ionic, as proved by the report of the committee of the Auckland members, is about double the distance of the Mokau route and infinitely moic difficult. Its adoption would nwau that the line would not be completed within the next twenty yeais, Wellington meanwhile getting a complete monopoly of TaianaUi and West Coast tiadc." The follow ing i& the telegiani lefened to: — Taupo, this day. — A paity of natives on arrival to-day from the King Countty state tli.it since the Wliatiwhatihoe muetinq nothing new has transpned. Wahanui, who is well-known to be the leal power behind Tawlnao's tin one, declaies thatno railway vui Mokau or cl&ewheie tlnough the Nagatimaniapoto country m ill be allowed dining his life-time or until Parliament, sitting at Auckland, shall have passed new laws to ensure the maintainence of the Maoii authority over the King Country.