AUCKLAND.
Our dates by the Kate are to the 17th in st. The newspapers are filled with leaders and letters on the subject of the Superintendence election, which seemed to be causing great excitement in the capital. Mr. Newman had retired, so that the contest lay between Mr. Williamson, the late Superintendent, and Mr. Robert Graham the new candidate. The war cry of the latter is "direct purchase," which, on the other hand, is stoutly opposed by Mr. Williamson. The anxiety of the latter to regain office after his voluntary abdication of it, seems curious to an outsider. A great meeting of natives had taken place in the Waikato, at which Thomson, the king maker, got up and said, — "We must not allow a steamer to enter the Waikato river ; we must not allow a bridge over MaungataAvhiri ; neither must we allow the road now making at Raglan to cross the Waitetuna." To these proportions the assembled natives gave their unanimous assent. It was also decided that the proposal of the Government to settle the Waitara question by arbitration should not be accepted. There have been several arrivals of wheat and flour from Adelaide and Hobart Town.
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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 6, Issue 337, 25 November 1862, Page 2
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197AUCKLAND. Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 6, Issue 337, 25 November 1862, Page 2
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