30 MAY 1868, Page 2

The New Zealanders seem to have been almost as much

excited at the prospect of the visit from Prince Alfred, and as woebegone at the loss of their prospect, as if he had really been the mother country going to them in person. The attempt to assassinate him had excited the colony, as it did the Australians, to blood-heat, but fortunately they had not passed any spasmodic Acts as yet. There seem to have been manifestations of sympathy' with the executed Manchester Fenians at Hokitika, on the west coast of the middle island, and strong measures had been very wisely taken to prevent outbreaks between the loyal colonists and the disaffected Irish in this place.