The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1875-03-13

interview will be found disclosed elsewhere. The
fact that the King has taken The step OF a personal
interview With a representative OF The Goyernment,
and has arranged for a meeting In March next -
an augury OF peace. than which we have never
received more perfect aHsHrancc. Large areas OF
land. too, are daily falling into the hands OF the
Government by negotiation 81 the NauFe bSPals
ment. which department II u has heretofore mcrited
the suspicion which naturally attaches 20 pubhc
business transacted quietly, necessarily or oterr-
wise, is al least az this moment doinE good ana We
have reason 10 believe most proHtRhle work.
Sir Donaid Mclean publicly stated at Napier
that between six and seven million acres Of native
land had recently been acquired. while large
blocks are pow under pegonaiion. Ihs tsAfsthe
Otag0 TfrRoS) shows q eonsideFable annnans % snc-
cessfui work aud the work Is much harder than
appears on the surface. The natives, Eeneraily
speaking. are extremely 10th to part with their
land, especially in large areas aud " Is ens ~
dfnt Of continued and long importuhl,y on tbe psn
OF the Government agents that they are Induced
TO sell.
Satisfactory intelligence has arrived by the mail
lust teiecraphed. respecting tie Ei00 600 loan tor
providing the water supply for the city Of Auek-
land. That amount has been coated on he lsonloa
market AZ an average OF stA, being 40 averHge DIS
count OF only y which IL considered Tor q mnnio-
ipal loan. even at 6 per cent, decidedly favorable
terms. Some tenders went even so high as 10 ex-
ceed 80. The rate at which this loan has been
hnated. too. Rugurs well for the success al our
New Zealand loan. which the Colonial Treasurer h
now concerned in floating In London. II recourse
is had 10 the more common system 81 a syndicate,
by means Of which a certain body Of hnancieTs I'M
dsrtAks The ss sTcSs. 2, sFS S = %i, Sss 1 ! srS
cent. loan may be raised on terms no less satis.
factory. When We find that a loan for a municipal
corporation has been SO successfully hoated as has
been accomplished in this instance OF the water
works loan, we may rest satisfied that--with the
security OF ihe, colony With tbereprodneiive pur-
poses to Which the money Is 20 DO applies ! win
the high repnte which New Zealand. by her bold
policy and the progress she has made. new enjoys
in England--there will be no insnperabio obstacles
placed in Mr.. Ncgels path. Money Is plentiful In
the market. as is seen by the fact that Eve times
the amount required for the water-works was
rendered fora circumstance, we believe, quite
unprecedented In local loans applied for by the
corporation Of a colonial city like Auckland. And
the evidence Of the p~lentifal supply OF MONEY is
shown by the fact that the whole OF the South
Australian loan, which, by late accounts. had hung
Ere, has now been fully taken up.-Southern Cross.
There is more mystery about Mr.. vaigel, and a
few trifing thousands In money. One correspondent
telegraphs on Wednesday that Mr.. Vogel's arrival
in London on the 18th of Decembe Is announced
In English papers received at Dunedin per the SueG
mail. The Agency, instructed we p@rsume by the
Government. telegraphs on Thursday that :" adYices
received show that the statement published that
Mr.. Nogel arrived in London on the 18th OF De
cembe cannot possibly be correct" Now, rs Mr..
Vogel left Melbourne by the Suez mail on the 10th
Of October, supposing him to have arrived In Lon
don on the 18th OF December. he would have just
taken sixty days to accomplish a trip which he
should have performed, barring accidents or stop
pages, in at most ~forty-hve days. Then again. sup
posing that be did not. by some accident. arrive In
December at all, surely he would have arrived
long before the 9th of February, up TO which dates
we have had cablegrRms, yet 10 that date The Gov
eminent had received no notice OF his arrival at
Home. The matter becomes further mixed by the
Agency's latest telegram, in which we are told
that advices received showing that Mr.. Vogel ar
rived in London on the 10Th OF December, cannot
possibly be correct. But surely Mr.. Vogei h. at
Home by this time, or where Is hei And II he Ia
not at Home, have there been no adviees TO that
.Ta-ae 1T, At Ne. VI L-I AAN
arrived at Home. after an absence Of 100 days
from October goth TO February 9th. the date ot the
last cablegram messages-what kind friend could
have placed Gs00, 900 10 the credit OF the New
Zealand Government? There is either mystery or
misrepresentation in some quarter Wnknown.--
Auckland Herald.