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Star (Christchurch), Issue 116, 26 September 1868, Page 3

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<£> [bt submarine telegeaph:.] "Wellington, Sept. 25, 8 p.m. Last night Messrs Atkinson, H. S. Harrison, and Heaphy, spoke lor, and Messrs Carleton, Joilie, and Wilson against, Mr M'Lean's motion. Mr Wilson moved as an amendment, " That the condition of the Northern Island requires that an efficient force of Constabulary, organised after the Irish model, should be embodied for a definite period." To-day a further imprest supply of .•£30,000 -was granted. On the second reading of the Westland County Bill, a discussion took place on going into committee. Mr C. D. B. Ward has been gazetted as a judge of the Supreme Courfc, and leaves for Otago to-morrow. Dr Evans was buried to-day. The House adjourned during the funeral. The news from Hawke's Bay is unimportant. News from Wanganui states that on the 20th instant Colonel McDonnell, with a small force went out to attack Titi Kowharu at his entrenched position at Taiporehenui, but found ifc evacuated. Colonel Haultain has ordered all posts, except Manawapoa and Patea, to be abandoned. The Wanganui Times says tbat a district, in which some settlers have spent hundreds and others thousands in land, houses, fences, cultivation, &0., thus falls undisputed into Tito's hands. The Kupapas are returning to Wanganui.