WELLINGTON.
The Provincial Council met on Tuesday afternoon, in the Supreme Court House. The Speaker having taken the chair, the clerk read the Superintendent's proclamation convening the Council, after which his Honor entered the chamber and delivered a lengthened speech. He spoke highly in praise of Mr. Buller's services on the West Coast; expressed his opinion that the neck of the war "was broken ; and said that the financial condition of the province was highly satisfactory. After some unimportant business the Council adjourned until Wednesday, at 5 p.m. We hear by the arrival of the schooner Wild Wave from the Chatham Islands, that the Maori prisoners there are all peaceably occupied. They have not yet commenced to till their land, but are engaged under the surveillance of the guard in charge of them, in constructing a redoubt and building huts for themselves. Another batch of prisoners was expected there when the Wild Wave left, but a rumor got circulated that the St. Ivilda had broken down between Poverty Bay and Napier. This, however, we know to be false, as the sailing of the St. Kilda from the latter port for Waitangi has been reported. — N.Z. Advertiser, May 1 1 .
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume I, Issue 71, 28 May 1866, Page 3
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