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Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2635, 1 June 1889, Page 2

Puksidknt Haukison intends giving a few State offices to negroes. A meeting of tho Star of Waikato, L.0.L., No. 17, is called for Saturday next, at half-past seven p.m. The annual meeting of ratepayers of the Pirongia Road District has been postponed until Saturday, Bth Juno. Mr T. B. Hill returns thanks to his friends for sympathy and offers of assistance in his late trouble. TIIK National Zeitung professes to have learned that tho legacy of 8,000,000f. bequeathed by tho Duchess of Galliera to the Empress Frederick, has already been paid over to Her Majesty's bankers in Londrn and Frankfort, apart from jewels to the value of about 8,000,000f.

AccoiiniNci to the Wellington Post, a circular has recently been issued by the Commissioner of Police which has caused considerable dissatisfaction amongst the members of the force throughout the colony. Its purport is to warn them against belonging to any political or religious society. The Commissioner refuses to supply a copy, and dismissal is the penalty if any member of tho force supplies any information. Some of the men are in doubt whether the circular refers to Churches, as every Church and congregation is a religious society. Many of the police are also members of the Mas mio body, or of one or other of the friendly societies. The Commissioner states that the restriction is not intended to apply to purely benefit societies, but he declines to say that it is not intended to apply to Masonic lodges. Probably the Premier or the Native Minister could enlighten him as to whether a lodge is a political or religious society,