NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1608, 16 April 1879, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND.

[pee peess agency.] Wellington, April IG. Sir Julius Vogel. The Government have determined to appoint Sir Julius Vogel one of the agents lor the consolidation aud inscription of New Zealand stock. The “ New Zealander” says the appointment woffid have been made sooner, but tbe extraordinary monetary crisis in England prevented any action being taken while it lasted, to carry out the policy of the Government as announced last session. The Native CrisisAn unusual activity is noticeable at Mount Cook barracks. Squads of recruits for the armed constabulary are being drilled daily there The force is being rapidly brought up to its fall strength. The Government, deeming that part of the Waitara and Patea railway is of strategical importance in view of the present unsettled state of affairs at Waimate, have notified to the contractors that all penalties of non-completion of the contracts will be strictly enforced. The extension from Inglewood to Stafford will be completed by August. The Ball to the Governor. it is understood that the committee of arrangements for the ball to his Excellency aud Lady Robinson to-night, have decided that ther# will be no speech making, par tly because the practice is now going out of vogue, and also because the supper will be the ordinary stand up one. His Excellency entirely concurs in these views. A Public Library. The Mayor has called a public meeting for considering the establishment of a free public library. Wellington. April 16, A small child this morning was run over by a milk cart, but escaped injury in an extraordinary manner, seeing that the wheel passed over the little one’s body. Tbe Hinemoa has gone to New Plymouth for the Native Minister, it is said. The Education Board have applied to the Corporation for permission to erect a wooden achoolhouso on the reclaimed 1 and at Thorndon, but tbe Public Works Committee of the Council decided that they have no power to grant such permission, inasmuch as the by-laws distinctly provide that all new buildings to be erected within tbe boundaries of the city shall be of brick or concrete walls. New Plymouth, April 16. The Parihaka Meeting. Mr Sheehan left for Wellington, in the Hinemoa, this morning at ten o’clock. A large number of well dressed Maoris are on their way to Parihaka. It is considered remarkable that there are no women among them. The meeting at Parihaka takes place on the 18th.