NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1626, 7 May 1879, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND.

[PEB PBESB AGENCY.] AUCKLAND, May 6. The schooner Edith from Rarotonga, brought Harvey, engineer, of the Sydney steamer Eoa, who reports that after leaving the Eoa he took passage on the American schooner Concordia for Rarotonga. She stopped at Scilly Island, 350 miles from Tahiti, to land the American Consul and obtain water. While she was waiting there a strong current carried the ve-sel close to the reefs, and she went ashore in a gale. There were twenty-six souls aboard, including the passengers. All were saved. They also got a quantity of provisions ashore. The island was a barren sand bank, but they subsisted for three weeks on their provisions. They were rescued by the Carolina Mada, schooner, and taken to Tahiti. The City Council arc making preparations for the Governor’s reception* The Auckland Club have also convened a meeting to consider a proposal to entertain His Excellency at a banquet. A young woman was arrested charged with leaving her infant on the footpath in Wellington street, wrapped in a blanket, with a feeding bottle, last night. The infant when found was soaked with rain. WELLINGTON, May 6. The two brothers Maxted were brought up at the R.M. Court this morning for not contributing towards the support of their aged father and mother. The evidence showed that one brother owned 200 acres of land and twenty head of cattle, the other about seventy acres and a lot of stock, and that for years they had not contributed in the slightest degree towards their parents’support, or even enquired as to how they managed to exist. The Magistrate said it was the first case of the kind he ever had in the colony, and he hoped it would be the last. It was a disgrace to the colony to [see men in the position of the Maxted’s allowing a crippled father and decrepit mother to bo neglected. He ordered each to pay 7s 6d per week towards the maintenance of their parents. One brother said—“l can’t pay. I have not the means.” The Magistrate replied—" It is no use your saying that. The law is more powerful than you and will find a way to compel you.” An information is to be laid against another brother not summoned. The following tenders were received for the steamer wharf and reclamation contract at Port Chalmers: —Accepted : McGill and Forrest, £16,998 7s Bd. Declined: D. McKenzie, £18,223; Proudfoot and McKay, £18,583 7s 4d ; Allen and Stumbles, £19,394 lls 7d; Henderson, Fergus, and Mackie, £19,603 12s 8d; D. M. Watson, £19,712 ; R. Heacham, £21,214; J. B. Blair, £26,877 10s ; J. D, Downes, £29,691 6s. NEW PLYMOUTH, May 6. At the Supreme Court this morning a man named Gringall pleaded guilty to killing his half-brother, Ferdinand Paul, at Normanby on 16th January last, and was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment with hard labor. REEFTON, May 6. Warden Shaw has left for New Plymouth with Warden Price, having been transferred here and taken official charge of the district. It is the intention of the constituents of Mr Reeves, M.H.R., to present him with a testimonial. Government proclamations are posted about the town offering £SOO reward for the conviction of persons wilfully setting fire to property. The jury at the inquest on the last fire rtturned a verdict “That it had been maliciously caused by a person unknown.” HOKITIKA, May 6. li the list of objections to names on the electoral roll published this morning 701 namei are objected to, among which are those of nmy old residents and prominent citizens. The ground of objection is that they are aliens. [feom one own coeeespondent.] TIMARU, May 6. At the Resident Magistrate’s Court this morning Yr Beetham,R.M., gave his decision in the case n which Thomas Keenan, boarding house keeper, was charged with sly grog selling. He sad the evidence of Keenan and wife was so contradictory that he did not consider it worth anything, and inflicted a fine of £2O. It is very probable the case will not rest, and that a criminal prosecution will result from it. The annual sports of the South Canterbury Amateur Athletic Club take place to-morrow. They promise to be very numerously attended. [Press Special Wire.] AUCKLAND, May 6. A training vessel is now being built to supersede the old Southern Cross. Two cases of bravery in rescuing life from drowning in the harbor were brought before the Harbor Board, and recommended for the Humane Society’s medal. GRAHAMSTOWN, May 6. This afternoon a young man named Trucott had his left leg broken above the ankle by the fall of a wedge-shaped piece of quartz in the Moanatairi mine. The engineer, D. M. Beore, has received instructions to issue tenders for the third contract in connection with the railway. WANGANUI, May 6. At an inquest this afternoon, on the body of John Nixon, killed by the boiler explosion yesterday, the following verdict was returned :—“ That deceased came to his death through the explosion of a steam boiler at Duncan and Yorke’s steam saw mills, on Monday, sth inst., but there is not sufficient evidence to explain the cause of the explosion,” WELLINGTON, May 6. F. C. Kreeft, grain and produce dealer, is calling a meeting of his creditors for tomorrow. In the Supremo Court to-day the Chief Justice refused to consider an application by a bankrupt for sustenance out of his estate until the question had been taken before the creditors for their consideration. It is considered very probable that Councillor Hunter will be chosen by the Council to act as temporary Mayor in consequence of Mr Dransfield’s resignation, and until such time as his successor is appointed. On Monday next a public meeting will be held to consider a scheme for establishing a public library. The sitting of the Court of Appeal commences on Monday. The following are the cases down for hearing: —Binney y Oaloutt

and Pickwere v Wren; from Auckland ; Joseph and another t Wylie and Girdlestono and Latter v Brogden, Wellington. A telegram from Napier states that the steamer Kiwi, from Wellington, was off there in a disabled condition, haying lost two or three blades off her propeller. New blades will be forwarded immediately by coach.

Five hundred persons attended the Young Men’s conversazione last night. In regard to Walker, whom Gleich, the defaulting bankrupt from Adelaide, blamed for all hi i misfortune, and who, he said, robbed him of £I7OO while in London, it appears that some months since a man named Walker was arrested at Port Adelaide aboard a steamer on which he had taken passage for Germany. Ho was charged with defrauding his creditors in M Ibourno. When searched there were found upon him £I7OO, just the amount that Gleich alleges ho had stolen from him. This Walker is now doing a term of imprisonment in Pentiidge. The election for Mayor will be held on the 27th.

At the Supreme Court to-day in bankruptcy, the deed of assignment in the estate of R. J. Duncan to S. Carroll for the benefit of bis creditors, was declared duly executed. DUNEDI N , May 6. Mr George McLean intends addressing his Palmerston constituents at an early date. Many of the Civil servants have not yet received their salaries.

The Corporation deny all liability as to damage caused by the floods in March last. The Silverstream water supply scheme will be completed in four weeks. A movement is going on among footballers for introducing the Tictorian rules. OAMARU, May 8.

Some time since samples of Oamaru building stone were sent to Brisbane, and as the result a shipment of a hundred tons is now being made in the barquentine May Newton, which leaves here in a day or two. The Rev. Mr Baird, for seven years Presbyterian Minister at Hampden, has accepted a call to Winton, Southland. Yesterday a deputation of members of his church waited upon him and presented him with a sum of money.