TELEGRAMS.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 4454, 6 November 1885, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

[FKOK OUH OWN COEUKSI'ONDE.VT.]

Wellington, This day

Mr Pennefather, Private Secretary to tho Governor, is to accompany Baron Yon Iliiast to tho Colonial and Indian Exhibition to lecture on tho Now Zealand Court. He will probably perform his duties gratuitously. There seems to br> a little difference of opinion among Ministers regarding the proposal to raise tho trunk railway loan and /*pply it to other purposes. Mr Tolo, I know, feels very strongly about tho matter, and thinks it would be n very immoral proceeding, and thai it is no justification to say that Major Atkinson or any other Government did a similnr thing. Of course, tho matter has not yet boon beforo the Cabinet, but no doubt it will lie brought np directly. All Ministers assemblo next week, and it is impossible to say what notion tho North Island members of tho Ministry will take, but I am inclined Jo think that some of them, Mr Tolo for niHtance, will see the necessity of considering his position in tho Cabinet.

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GisnoiiNK, This day. James "Snyder" Browne, a very old journalist, died hero last niight. Wku.i-noton-, This day. Now that tlio Exhibition is being , demolished it lnis been discovered that iho building had ft narrow escape from destruction by "fire. A gas beating stove hud been used in tho refreshment rooms and no protection hod been placed between it and the wooden walls, and on removing tho stove it was found that a considerallo portion of tho dadoing was charred almost through, awl that part of tho s.:riin above- it had been burnt, pud tho dry lining' boards scorched. The refreshment room is beneath the fine art gallery, and had ti fire broken out no doubt tho fine- collection of pictures would have been destroyed.

The Gazette notifies tho appointment of Serjjt-Major O'Grndy as inspector of ■weights and measures for Ilawko's Bay.

' Atjokland, This day. The special services in connection with tho jubilee commemoration of the introduction of Christianity- into Fiji by the Wesleynn Missionary Society, for which tho Rev. A. Reid wont down by the last steamer, passed off most successfully. Wahanui has had a long conversation with Mr Bullancc at Alexandra. Wahanui expressed himself ns being anything but unfavorable to believing that the time waa fust coming when titles should thus be adjudicated upon. Hopa had an interview with tho Native Minister, and ho too is as favorably disposed towards the Land Court. As tho principal chief being interested in the Rangitoto Country, ho also is willing to permit gold prospecting. Hauruki, tho chief owner of the Tiaha district, in a private interview, has also expressed his willingness to allow prospecting in tho luaha district, providing applicants for prospecting certificates were approved by him. Ho wns, however, opposed to indiscriminate prospecting, lest persons of bad ehuivtof or should como trespassing on their lands, interfering with the people, their settlements, and their cattle.