SOUTHERN TELEGRAMS

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXXII, Issue 5286, 21 September 1876, Page 3

SOUTHERN TELEGRAMS

NEW PLYMOUTH, Wednesday. THE MAORIS AND THE LOST TRIBES OF ISRYEL. The Paraika meeting has terminated Over a thousand natives were present. To Witi was the centre of Attraction, and -vras looked up to with almost adoration by the natives. He says the Maoris were the lost tribes of Israel, and exhibited maps and plans showing the supposed route by winch the present race originally reached N«w Zealand. His knowledge of Scripture history and of late researches in Palestine is •poken of aa astonishing. He said it was n.o uie educating the Maori regarding the l%Jf» He said each man could sell or keep itaWhe liked. He »poke of the proposed meeting of the Maori King, the Governor at*l Sir Donald McLean. The 'Wild Duck,' which was on a bank ib the Waitara River, has been got off. One hundred and thirty-four acres of land within two miles of New Plymouth Afeic sold to Mr. Burke, of Auckland, for £l,$30, cash. A trial of the smelting of iron ore .it the ironworks will commence to-morrow.

WELLINGTON, Wednesday. STONE FOR AUCKLAND DOCK. In consequence, it is alleged, of the high price of labour at Auckland, and the heavy railway charges on the line of railway from Newmarket to Auckland, the contractors for the Auckland Dock have found it more profitable to obtain the necessary stone from Melbourne, where they have entered into a contract for obtaining about £30,000 worth of stone of the same quality as that which could be quarried at Newmarket or Rangitoto.

DUNEDIN, Wednesday. THE NEW STEAM YACHTS. The Otnrjo T>aily Tirwm of to-<lay saya a gentleman in Scotland writing to a Dunedin friend by the last mail aays the 8, a. 'Stella' and a.s. 'Hinemoa,' both of which the newspapers said had been built as yachts for the Marqueas of Normanby, have in reality been built for the Colonial Government. It is asierted, he lays, that the steamers are regular job*, flimaily built, and exorbitantly charged for. He state* that a gentleman connected with a ateamboat company in one of the neighbouring colonies, remarked of the 'Stella? »d 'Hinemoa' that thtre would be » fine row about them when they got out to New Zealand.

DE MURSKA. Mr. Dunning haa ■ecured a lease of tht Queen's Theatre. De Murska opens there on the 26th.

BILLIARD MATCH. The billiard matoh, Neubit v. Manson, for £100, wa? won by Neibit. Time, six and a half hours ; 1,000 up.