LAST NIGHT'S TELEGRAMS

Globe, Volume IX, Issue 1274, 18 April 1878, Page 2

LAST NIGHT'S TELEGRAMS

[BY SUBMARINE CABLE.] [reuter’s special telegrams to the PRESS AGENCY.] Monetary and Commercial. London, April 15. Consols and discounts are unchanged ; New Zealand 4|- per cent loan, 103, Adelaide wheat, 60s to 625; flour, 41s to 435. Arrived —Lusitania, from Victoria. The exhibits are now all ready for the Paris Exhibition. AUSTRALIA. Melbourne, April 17. Sailed—Tararua, via Hobart Town, for the Bluff, on Tuesday. Albion, for Hokitika, on Wednesday. INTERPROVINCIAL. [PER PRESS AGENCY.] Two Gold Discoveries. Auckland, April 17. A miner named Michael Collins, at Coromandel, has received a letter from London solicitors, announcing that he is heir to a fortune of £300,000. In the case of Arthur v. Waikato Steam Navigation Company, a claim for £SOO damages, for injuries received from falling down the hold through alleged neglig-mce of defendants, nine of the jury were in favor of awarding no damages. The judge held this to bo a verdict for defendants, and entered it accordingly. A young man named James Aitken, nephew of W. Aitken, the land agent, fell down in an apoplectic fit this morning, and died immediately. Ho had been employed as clerk by Messrs Hesketh and Richmond, solicitors. Montague McMurdo, son of Captain MeMurdo, of the Mutual Life Association, was thrown from his horse, and sustained concussion of the brain. It is feared thednjuries are fatal.

Geahamstown, April 17. A digger arrived in town to-day from the Upper Thames witli some very good coarse gold, and two gold-bearing specimens obtained from a new locality. He has shown them to the county authorities, with the intention of either claiming a reward for the discovery or obtaining assistance from the county prospecting committee. Several parties out prospecting are said to have obtained payable returns from alluvial or reef wash. Wellington 1 , April 17. The evening papers to-day publish the names of nearly all the leading people here as interested in the New Colonial Insurance Company. Gkeymouth, April 17.

New quartz reefs have been discovered in both the Moonlight and Blackball districts. Several claims have been applied for. The stone shows good gold. [fSOAT THE COEEESPONDENT3 OF THE PEE33.] Native Matters in Hawke’s Bay. Timaku, April 17. Messrs Henderson and Goodall leave for the North to-morrow to meet Captain Heale re harbor plans. Nearly all the stores in town are full of grain, and it is being largely stacked in the open air. Napiee, April 16. Large Native gatherings have recently been held in this district, at which representatives for Opotiki, Wairarapa, Taupo, Waikato, and Poverty Bay were present. At Pakowhai meeting, fourteen hundred Natives were present. Henare Matua read the minutes of a meeting at Poukiwa, which were confirmed. A chief from Wairarapa, called Manihera, asked the meeting to appoint a committee of twelve, consisting of the principal chiefs present, to consider and report on various questions of Native importance. The request was agreed to, and a committee of twenty-four appointed, every tribe being represented, that a national committee should be appointed, consisting of one representative of each tribe in the North Island, the said committee to meet once a year, prior to the meeting of the General Assembly, and to take into consideration all Native petitions and questions connected with Native affairs to be brought before Parliament, the decision of the committee to be final. Twenty-four tribes, through their representatives, consented to this proposal, namely the Ngatikahunga, and tribes from Wairarapa, Hawke’s Bay, Wairoa, Tauranga, and Tologa Bay, a portion of Ngatiponga, the tribes of Wanganui, Taupo, Rangitikei, Rangitara, Urewera, and various others. All these tribes consented to have their affairs managed by the proposed committee. It was also proposed to have a Bill drafted and presented to Parliament to give certain powers to the committee. The recommendation and proposals of the committee were then put to the general meeting, and agreed to by 1451 male Natives, who signed a paper to that effect. Renata asked the chiefs of the tribes whether they would support Sir George Grey and Mr Sheehan when it was agreed to give them a trial.

The Native proposals re the Lands Bill includes Native Land Courts presided over by Natives. No law for lands to bo sold except through the Courts. Karaitiana signifies his intention in the event of’a dissolution of not again seeking to represent the East Coast district.