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Taranaki Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3138, 3 June 1879, Page 2

The County Council met yc-.tcr.lay, and adjourned till Monday next. A Cabinet mooting was held this morning, when the present state of native affairs in tlu-> district was di^ussc 1. His Excellency the Governor has cleferre 1 his intended visit to Auckland until the 12th June, as his presence in Wellington is necessary at the present critical juncture of affairs. The Hiucinoa was to leave for Wellington this evening, taking back his Excellency the Governor, the Premier, Colonel Whitmore, and the rest of the party. The Waste Lans Board and Borough Council met yesterday, but our reports of their proceedingswe have to hold over till to-morrow The schooner Atalanta, with a cargo of timber from Manukau, is laying off Waitara, awaiting a fair wind to get into the river. The Mayor stated last night at the Borough Council meetiug that the Chief Surveyor reportel the Borough reserve, near StratforJ, as consisting of some very tine land, and if opened up would be soon occupied. Mr. M. 11. Milieu, of Napier, reports the sale of Mr. J. G. Kinross Motuotoria Station, of 14,(500 sheep, 200 head cattle and plant, for £40,00 J sterling, to Mr. WilliamSaunders, of Otago. In spite of the disturbs.! state of the public mind there was a very fair attendance at Professor Eraser's lecture at Bell Block last night. The subject, a somewhat technical one, was so treated that even children listene 1 with the closest attention for an hour and-a-half. Much merriment was evoked by the lecturer's description of the unhygienic habits of some classes of people, and a vast amount of useful information was given in a palatable and agreeable form. Frequent uss was made of the large, colored diagrams. The meeting concluded with three successful public delineations of character. [ We bog to draw the attention of the public to the prospectus of the Victoria Insurance Company (Limited), which appears in our advertising columns. This is the reconstruction of the present Victoria Fire and Marine Insurance Company lately telegraphed, fiom Melbourne, its head-quarters. We are infornio I the business of the present Company will go on as usual until 30th June next, when the whole will be transferrc 1 to the reorganised company. The Victoria Insurance Company has been long and favorably known £to the Nesv Zealand public. We therefore need not comment on the prospects of the reconstructed Victoria Insurance Company beyond drawing attention to the fact that the fresh company takes over a large and eminently successful business, and at the sams tirna has the prospect of greatly increasing operations by the extended influence of new shareholders all over the Australasian Colonies. The loss of fifty men and an officer of the 10 th Hussars, on the Ist April, while crossing the Cabul River, will excite a deep and general feeling of regret. It is said that they missed the ford and were carried off by the current.