SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

Thames Advertiser, Volume XII, Issue 3348, 23 June 1879, Page 3

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

'ADVERTISER' SPECIAL WIRE. (MR PBESS AGENCY) Auckund, Sunday. Johnston King, in jured at tho Pialro, died in the hospital to-day. At the inquest on Joseph Davies, held yesterday, a verdict of " Died from natural causes" was returned. Tho 'Hinemoa' leaves to-night for Grahamstown, where she will he tendered by the s.s.' Pearl,' to convey tho Hon. J. Sheehan, Native Minister, and Mr Lewis, tho Under-Secretary of the Nativo.Department, to the Piako Settlement, to obtain the signatures of the native owners to tho deeds of sale to the Government. The Hon. the Native Minister returns to Auckland, and proceeds to Tauranga and Wellington in the s.s.' Glenelg.' Mr Puckey will meet the In ative Minister off Grahamstown early to-morrow morning, and accompany him to the Piako on the business of his department. Palurday. Arrived: 1 Glimpse,' barque, from Newcastle. Sailed: 'Mary Miller,' barque, for Newcastlo. Mr J. Chaplin and Pose Osborne are expected per' Hero' with the new opera company for Mr P. J. Delias. At Waipu the inhabitants aro forming a volunteer cavalry corps, which is expected to muster a hundred men. Want of labour is complained of at Waogarei. At the Police Court to day Henry Koane and Isaac Hunt were charged with evading Customs duties on 36 gallons of spirits. Prisoners pleaded not guilty, 'ibe evidence showed that several qrcasks rum wereplacod on the schooner' M adonna.' Detective Jeffrey deposed to having arrested the prisoners while in the act of landing a cask of rum in St. George's Bay. Constable Strathcru deposed that a cart was in waiting, but made off when tho men were arrested. Henry Parker, lido-waiter, identified tho cask as ono of those placed aboard the ' Madonna.' Fined £50 and costs, or to be imprisoned until the money be paid. Prisoners were removed to gaol. Subsequently one of the men's sons offered to piy half (ho fine on his account, but the Peuch declined to receive other than the whole amount. Mr W. Norrieis sending exhibits of New Zealand woods to the Sydney Exhi'Jho most singular item in the collection is a slab of fern leaf mottled kauri. One side is the rough corrugated trunk, just as it was stripped of bark and varnished, and (he peculiar fact in connection with it is that at regular intervals over its surface there are deep indentations of exact contour, and perfect shape of the leaf. On the reverse and polished side these leaves are most distinctly defined, looking just as if they had been 'J he wholo trunk from which the specimen is taken is marked precisely in the sumo manner. So interested are savants wttli it that numbers of pieces have taen eagerly purchased. Sir George Grey has carefully inspected it, and intends trying to produce a similar arborifcrous phenomenon by implanting a leaf in a young sapling, THE GOVERNOR'S VISIT TO THE WAIKATO. -The Governor proceeded to Cambridge yesterday, and «na welcomed by 200 natives; in all 2000 people were present An address was presented by (he Town Board. Tana 'le Waliaroa, son of the late William Thompson, presented an address. The Governor, in reply, oxpressed the hope that ho would be able to pay future visits to the Maoris. The following is tho ilauhau address pre scnted:-"To tho Governor—This is a welcome to you from beyond the mou'itains. Priend, salutations! Como and see the ling of this Islaud, and hear

whether his doings are good or had, 'whether I hey are for death or for life. Ibis is all from all the Xciatilianliaiiliau hero at Cambridge.—Signed) —To Temnhnia, Wharcrnln, Tangimoana, Jloaoriri, llono Neta, Whi'i" Kcwi was in the carriage with ihe Governor. A ifnuliau chief called out to ftowi insultingly, "Go, go, go, my brother j ge, n S yon see good for yourself; go, but you will not get mc aud others (meaning the King party). Go, dog, go. I don't think much of you now, as you find tho European food so sweet to your tongue. Go, go." Ifewi, who sat behind tho Governor, rose in the carriage and said: " I was hospitably entertained by the pakehaa, it is true, but I had a greater object in going down to my European friends than you raako out, aud not tho object you attributed to me " (meaning ho did not go to be bought). At Kihi/uhi (he whole community tnrnod out. Jiewi's wife welcomed lho Governor. A valuable ancestral heirloom, supposed to be 150 years old, was presented to the Governor hy tho jffgatimaniapoto chief of To Kcpua and relative of Hewi.

| The Governor was well received at To Awamutu, where lie inspected the Wnikato Cavalry under MaprJ'ficks.m. His Excellency complimented (he troop, and paid a tribute of praiso to the spirit of self reliance evinced throughout the colony. His Excellency said he did not know anything which so much gratified him as did the spirit minifesied by tlio men to come forward and bo traine 1 for active service on behalf of their country. Self-government might bo landed, but in the Self-reliant spirit exhibited ho beheld ihe true foundation of a nation's greatness, and in New Zealand ho saw the basements of a great country. The Governor concluded with a tribute of commendation to tlio efficiency aud soldier-liko behaviour of the men, Major Jackson responded, thanking tlio Governor for hio kind remarks, and called for cheers, which wort given heartily. ~. liev.i (interpreted by Mr Grace) said: Officers and men,—l have simply to say that T hope fighting and all this sort of thing will bo put aside, and that we, tho two races on this island, will ho one. His Excellency proposed three cheers for Ifewi Maniapoto, which were given heartily. The Governor lias left for Ohanpo.