NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1542, 28 January 1879, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND.

[PBB PBHSB AGENCY.] Oamaru, January 27. Only fifty-five of the Taranaki’s immigrants arrived by the steamer W aitaki yesterday. Of these two only were single girls. When the immigrants were brought ashore a number wore drunk at the barracks, a row took place, and the police had to be sent for to restore order. One man was arrested, and this morning he was charged at the R.M. Court with drunkenness, assaulting the barrack master, and resisting the police. He was fined £5 or a month’s imprisonment. Gore, January 27. Mr Conyers is now almost fully conscious, but very much weaker this morning. The doctor, however, does not consider this an unfavorable circumstance. Invercargill, January 27, All the immigrants per Western Monarch have found engagements, the majority on farms or other situations, at from .£IOO to £3O per year, whilst a number of married men have gone to work on railway and other contracts at 9s per day. There was a general turn out at the barracks to day, only one family remaining, and they leave for Christchurch on Friday. A special train left town this afternoon with a number of citizens who had been invited to witness the ceremony of turning the first sod of the Waimea Plains Railway at Gore. ["prom the correspondents of the press.] Auckland, January 27. Charles Phillips, for obtaining money by a forged order from Short, a hairdresser, was committed for trial. Mr. Toung, a Government land-purchase agent, has purchased a block of land on Rotoiti lake, embracing some of the finest medicinal springs in the Lake District, including one in which several remarkable cures were recently effected. The thoroughbred mare Mayfly was drowned in a swamp at Panmuro last night. Wellington, January 27. Mr Thomson, the Surveyor-General, has charged Mr Jackson, Chief Surveyor at Wellington, with disobedience and insubordination. Mr Jackson denies the charge, so a Court of Inquiry, consisting of Messrs Fountain, Gray, and Hamerton, sits to-morrow to investigate the matter. Timaru, January 27. An elderly woman named Mrs Beckingham was violently assaulted on Saturday night by two men on a road about a mile from the town. The offenders are not yet discovered. The first meeting of the Board of Governors of the Timaru High School was held to-day. The business was of a formal nature. Mr Gillies was appointed chairman. James King, stable proprietor, was thrown from a young horse to-day and broke his left thigh. The Government, at the earnest remonstrances of the public, have decided not to dispense with the services of the local immigration officer here. This has given great satisfaction. The Gas Company have determined to reduce the price of gas from £1 to 17s fid, after the Ist of March. Typhoid fever is very prevalent in Timara just now. Four deaths occurred from it on Saturday, all of children. The prevalence of the disease is attributed to the long drought and scarcity of water. Oamaru, January 27. There was some trouble yesterday, in getting the immigrants, per Taranaki, to the barracks. Many of them were drunk and fighting, and a general scrimmage took place. The barrackmaster and Sergeant Beatty received some hard knocks. One of the most conspicuous of tho combatants was this morning sentenced to one month’s imprisonment for his riotous conduct. Dunedin, January 27. Mr Charles Hogg has been appointed English and Classical Master at the Girls’ School. Mr Do Lautour addressed his constituents at Naseby, receiving a vote of confidence. [Special Wire.] Auckland, January 27. At the afternoon sitting of the Conference, the income of tho foreign mission fund was reported to be £l7l 3s 4d. The Christchurch book deposit report was read and adopted, and the following gentlemen appointed the committee for the ensuing year:—Messrs Gould, Turner, Harris, Mouldy, Wilson, Lawry, T. Wilson, Blackwell, Smyth, Shareland, and Salter, with ministers of the surrounding circuits of Christchurch. It was shown that tho number of subscribers to the “ New Zealand Wesleyan” bad steadily increased during the year. It was x’esolved to issue the journal weekly, its now name to be left with the committee. Napier, January 27. At the meeting for the election of a school committee to-night there were only seven candidates. The meeting was sparsely attended and little interest taken in tho proceedings. The report of the old committee complained that the Board had continually taken action without consulting the committ' , e. Karaitiana still continues very ill, aud little hope is entertained of his recovery. It is consequently expected that there will bo a vacancy for tho East Coast Maori Electorate next session. The groat Native meeting is being held at Renata's place, at Omaha. About 700 are present. One matter under discussion is who should bo Karaitiana’s successor should tho vacancy occur. Tho meeting is likely to occupy all this week. Wellington, January 27. The Government have sent home for one of Rowan’s p dent tramway engines and two passenger cars, with a view of making frequent passenger runs to tho Lower Hutt, and in expectation of a large increase of population at the Hutt in consequence of the difficulty of procuring sites in Wellington city, it is probable arrangements will be made with the Tramway Company to run their cars direct from Newton to the Lower ‘Hutt. The oidy thing required will he to reduce the flange of the ordinary rails. It is thought if such arrangement can he made, there will bo no necessity for a central railway station,

Foxton, January 27. The Hydrabad is still being shifted down seawards. '('he weather continues favorable, and every effort will be made to get her off by tomorrow. Dunedin, January 27. The secretary of the Harbor Board to-day received a communication from the Marine Department at Wellington intimating that the election for the new Board must bo bold on the second Monday in February. Regulations bearing on the manner in which local governing bodies and payers of dues are to proceed to the election were gazetted last week. The elections of school committees took place this evening. Intense interest was taken in the Dunedin election, and the Bible reading party put forward six candidates, of whom they sue Deeded in returning five. The following was the result Keith Ramsay, 405 :E. Nathan, 403 ; Tims. Dick, 309: J. Robin, 302; W. D.Stewart, 233; A. R.'Livingston, 181); G. P. Farquhar, 175.’ ’