TELEGRAMS.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XX, Issue 3906, 24 April 1877, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

[Fkom the Press Agescy.J AUCKLAND, April 23. About 300 natives were present at the Kaipara meeting. The business was conducted in a parliamentary form. The resolutions passed expressd the determination of the natives to adhere to the Christian religion and laws, and to become one with the Europeans ; also to give up murderers and thieves to the legal tribunals. They further affirmed the wrong of recognising claims to land by the right of conquest ; that the seat of Government ought to be at Auckland ; that orphan children should be supported by Government ; all legislative grievances to be submitted to Parliament ; and finally, they acknowledged the benefits derived from the Queen's Government. The Smith British loss on the cargo of the Isabella Ridley is £970, not £2000. The wreck has been sold for £101. The South British have sold the cargo for £12. On the arrival of the Taupo from the South, Richard Walters, a passenger, was arrested on a telegram, charged with stealing cheques to the value of £20 at Wellington. A gum digger named John Nenis, lying drunk on the Kaipara railway, had his arm cut off by the train. A lad named Campbell Kirkwood, in the employ of Clarkson, a commission agent at Onehunga, picked up a bottle containing brandy in a hedge near an old hut. He drank a portion of its contents, and died in agony from poison, supposed to be strychnine. DITNEDIN, April 23. The Dunedin Jockey Club on Saturday evening unanimously endorsed the action of the Oamaru Club re Fishhook and Drewitt. Mr Robert Stout, M.H.R., writes a long letter to the Guardian this morning, dealing with the duties of a Governor, and maintains that the Marquis of Nornianby showed a strong party bias against provincialism. He asks, "If the Governor has manifested party feeling, are the colonists so craven hearted that they are afraid to condemn him for his action I" He adds, '• If it is to be said of New Zea- | lann colonists that their worship of aristocracy is so intense that all the shortcomings of a Governor are to be overlooked, then it is useless to talk of being in a free country, or amongst enlightened people.'