NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1597, 2 April 1879, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND.

[PBB PEBBB AGENCY.] Auckland, April 1. The Supreme Court criminal calendar is unusually heavy. There are three cases of larceny, three of indecent assault, three of horsestealing, one of housebreaking, two of stealing from the person, one of arson, and one of forgery. The committee who voluntarily gave their services in placing new claims on the electoral roll have forwarded claims for a total of 1665, of whom 1532 are freeholders and leaseholders and 133 lodgers. The committee will also endeavor to purify the rolls. It is believed that the number of new claims will amount to two thousand.

David Wright, a stonemason, aged fifty, was killed by fal ing from a house near Pukekohu. He leaves a wife and nine children. Colonel Packe left for the benefit of his health. He is suffering severely from asthma. Napier, April 1. This afternoon a little girl, seven years of age, named Smith, was knocked over by the railway engine near Napier station. The place is near where the Provincial Government had some cottages for poor people, and where some two years ago an old woman was run over by a train and killed. There is a crossing there from the road, and the line at that part is about as much run upon by children as a roadway. The child was unconscious when picked up. She had a wound on the top of her head, but no bones broken, and she subsequently recovered consciousness.

At the Resident Magistrate’s Court this morning, G. P. Donnelly and Joseph Price were committed for trial on a charge of conspiring to defraud Renata Kawepo. Mr Rees, for prosecutor, appeared to have the trial fixed to come off at Wellington, as it would come off two months earlier than at Napier, and there might be feeling imported into the case and prevent a fair trial. The magistrate declined to grant the application. The case against Messrs J. G. Kinross and Sutton is postponed to Thursday week, because of the difficulty of getting Worgan before the Court, as he stands committed at Wanganui on a charge of forgery, and is therefore held by the gaoler until the usual gaol delivery. Wellington, April 1, The Education Board have severely censured Mr Everiss, master of the Mount Cook school, for his conduct towards the Misses McGowan, teachers in that school. Two of the Misses McGowan are to bo removed, but removal is not to imply censure.

A meeting of the Thorndon ratepayers was unanimous in the opinion that the Corporation should not borrow the .£IOO,OOO which had previously been decided upon.

Hokitika, April 1. Mr William Pitt, solicitor, of Reefton, was accidentally drowned on Sunday evening. He was a passenger on the coach from Kumara to Hokitika to attend the Supreme Court. On reaching the north bank of the Arahura River, the bridge being under repair, he mounted a horse to cross. The horse bucked and threw him into the river, and he was washed out to sea and drowned. The body is not yet recovered. He leaves a widow and four children. The Hon. W. Gisborne left by the Christchurch coach this morning.

(from our own correspondent.] Timaru, April 1, Arthur Goodwin, a baker, who has recently become insolvent, is to be prosecuted for fraudulent bankruptcy on several counts. During the last month forty-four births, twenty-two deaths, and seven marriages wore registered at Timaru. The deaths largely exceed those of any previous month, typhoid fever and dysentery being still unpleasantly rife. Operations on the breakwater are now in full swing, and another twenty feet will be completed by to-morrow. A lower layer of blocks, averaging twenty-five tons, is fast being put down, and these are capped by one huge solid block built over them. It is believed this arrangement will greatly increase the stability of the work. A man, who.-e name has not yet been ascertained, was found drowned in the Saltwater Creek to-d^y, A petition is being numerously signed against the removal of Mr Campbell, R.M., from Temuka and Geraldine. [Press Special Wire.] Auckland, April 1. Anew sawmill has been started at Kohbkohu by a Wellington firm, and is working well. Mr Sheehan’s departure for the Waimate plains is postponed till after the arrival of the Premier,

William Chaney was fined <£l and costs for carrying a coffin with a body in it in his cab. Joseph Loubere, for exposing unwholesome fruit for sale was fined =£s.

The Associated Insurance Companies advertised a reward of .£2OO for the apprehension and conviction of any person wilfully setting fire to premises. h here are thirteen cases for trial at the sittings of the Supreme Court on Monday next, up to the pi esent not a single action has been entered for hesring at the civil sittings. The City Council and Chamber of Commerce confer to-morrow re the formation of a Harbor Board.

A careful but unsuccessful search has been made for the yacht Fanny Goddard along the adjacent coast It is feared she has gone to the bottom with Mr Stevenson, who was the only person known to be on board. It appears that one of a party of friends on board the harbor master’s yacht last Saturday discerned the yacht with one person on board, apparently fishing. It suddenly disappeared, as if capsized in a squall. They afterwards sailed all round the spot, but found no trace.

Dunedin, April 1. Tenders are to be called in a few days tor the first section of the Palmeraton-Waihemo branch railway. The provisions of the Poisons Act are not being strictly adhered to by vendors of poisons, and the police are inquiring into the matter. A case of a chemist supplying sixpenny worth of laudanum without the sale being duly witnessed has transpired. David Duncan, William Lee and John Smith were to-day committed for trial for having maliciously set fire to a gorse fence at the Forbury Park.

Dunedin, April 1. The case of Stanford v. Gillies, in which a verdict was entered for the plaintiff on the occasion of the trial, subject to the legal bearing of the case, will be argued in the Supreme Court to-morrow.

It was mentioned in Chambers to-day that an application for a special jury, and for the settlement of issues, in an action brought by Mr Denniston, solicitor, against the “ Age,” will bo made on Thursday. A lodging house, owned by Mrs Muir, and occupied by Mr McArthy, in View street, was burned down to-night. It was insured in the New Zealand Office for ,£l5O. The cause of the tiro is not known.