COLONIAL TELEGRAMS

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Wellington, Nov. 30. Fiji Banking- Company's annual meeting-; profit for the year, ,£3S9B. A dividend of 5 pec cent was declared. Auckland, Nov. 30. In the New South Wales Legislature the Postmaster-General, in answer to a question relative to the dispute with Hall, re San Francisco service, informed the House that Hall had not performed the contract, and his sureties had not paid u>) the sums for which they were responsible. A letter has been received from Gold smith, of Melbourne, regretting- that the effort to- get an Australian Cricket team to proceed to New Zealand has proved a failure. Sir George:(irey addressed the elec tors. One thousand persons present. He was received with deafening- cheers. The speech was of considerable length, but travelled over no ground but what ho already travelled over during last session, namely, illegality of abolition, improper constitution of Upper House, and maladministration of Government in the purchase of Native Lands. He contended that if Auckland were a sepa rate Colony she would be infinitely happier and more prosperous as a sepa rate Colony or a Republic. If they had their own Customs .Revenue, and were not obliged to feed that ravenous monster at Wellington, they would, if Auckland was made a free city, with only the-harbors .of Auckland and Manakau and adjacent.land, she would become as great as Carthage. The burden of his remarks was, he wanted New Zealand to be two States ; that each Island have, in due subordination to Great Britain, absolute sbvereig-n powers within itself, and that it. should yield up no portion of its powers, except strictly Federal ones, to the General Government sitting at Wellington, simply to regulate Customs duties and postal dues. The General Assembly should be the servant of the two Islands and only possess such powers as might be given by joint agreement. An enthusiastic vote of confidence was passed.
