NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1579, 12 March 1879, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND.

[per press agency.] Tauraga, March 12. Captain Worpse anticipates raising the Taupo this afternoon. Hokitika, March 12. The Jackson’s Bay Commission. The Stella has sailed for Jackson’s Bay. Passengers —Messrs Whitefoord, Bunny, and Giles, commissioners ; Jordan, secretary ; Moir and Zohab, interpreters ; and Messrs Macfarlane, Murdock, Collyer, and Marks About seven this morning a young man named Charles Clarkson, aged 18, while bathing on the beach, was carried out to sea and drowned. Blenheim, March 12.

The Blenheim Borough Council have resolved to take the Advantage, offered by the recent lire, to widen the Market place and Alfred streets 101'fc. 6in. The owners, with few exceptions, have met the Council liberally, and offered to exchange the land. It is said that the work can be done for .£3OO or .£4OO. Wellington, March 12. Harbor Defences. A memorial, signed by over a hundred names, has been presented to the Government, asking for the enrolment of a naval brigade. Colonel Whitmore expressed gratification at the fact, and expressed a hope that there would soon be a torpedo launch in the harbor. '.t he butchers’ assistants will, in future, have a half-holiday on every Wednesday. [from our own correspondent.] Invercargill, March 12. The Volunteer Demonstration. Three hundred and forty men from ten companies have accepted tor the Volunteer demonstration. Twenty-eight companies are invited. If the rema nder accept in the same proportion, over a thousand me a will be present. A freejtrip through the Island will doubtless be a great inducement. The public are subscribing well. There are several ten-guinea subscriptions and a large number of five guinea ones.