NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1630, 12 May 1879, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND.

[FROM OTJE OWN C* AMARU, May IS. A boy named William, about five years old, son of John Elliott, who u -~- -• 1,.‘ . ' .-•? vu JiCIO Uli Saturnoj- nlfl a y [ 0 Jutland, was drowned in a concrete tank, at the rear of the Bay View Temperance Hotel, yesterday. He was missed during the afternoon, and a search was made everywhere, but no trace obtained until this morning, when the body was discovered in a tank. AUCKLAND, May 10. Corporal Taylor won Captain Clarke** champion belt with 47 points. Lieutt Skinner Was second with 46. NEW PLYMOUTH, May 10. Sir John Qoode’s plans were submitted td the Harbor Board to-day. They Are modif}* Cations of Messrs Carruthers and Blackett’l plan. The mole is to be a rubble moundi with an area of 130 acres* and will ob»R £200,000. The Board has dismissed the engineer and sent the chairman to Auckland to get a fresh set of debentures prepared. WANGANUI, May 16. Joseph Dalton surrendered to his bail thiA morning, on a "charge Of obtaining money oh false pretences. The evidence for the defence exonerated him from blame, and the case„waß dismissed. Two other cases against him were withdrawn. ■, • ! 1 MASTERTON, May 11. I On Sunday evening the house of Mr Hutton, in. Yilla street;, was burnt. Tho family were away from home at the time. Nothing was saved. Jorns, auctioneer and captain of the local fire brigade, occupied the adjacent building, which caught from Hutton’s. The fire brigade, however, managed to extinguish the former, which in L charred all over and valueless. All Jorn’a furniture was saved. ~The total loss is about [ £6OO. The insurance in the National is about £3OO. . , ‘■"V WELLINGTON, May 10. i A requisition asking Mr Hutchison to be nominated for the Mayoralty will be presented on Monday.: There is every reason to believe that there will be no other candidate# 1 than Messrs Hunter and Hutchison. A letter has been received froto the ,C°®” missionerii-of the Sydney Exhibition, slatin'; that the Prince of Wales had accepted the Presidency of the Exhibition. Dr. Hector was requested to accept the office of agent, to proceed to Sydney to receive exhibits and 3 place them properly. It was also stated that arrangements had been made for two. pHlarn 1 of coal from Coal Pit Heath; Greymot’tbl . John Coogan, tailor, and Chas. Mclntyre, baker, have called meetings of their creditors. T A number of similar cases are spoken of as imminent, u -

Notices of motion have been given in tho City Council, with the object of preventing the drainage scheme being hung up longer than can bo helped, and that men be employed to keep the streets clean by commencing work at midnight, so as to prepare the streets for the following day’s traffic. An extraordinary meeting of the Burundi Coal Mining Company resolved that ,tbfe. cpnipany’s office should be removed from Webfc* port to Wellington. It was also decided to place two thousand new shares in the market, for tho purpose of raising funds wherewith to purchase plant and rolling stock for the tram* way.

The Sentry Hill workshop contract of the Waitara-Patea Railway has been let to Alex. Reese, of Wellington, for £1445. A somewhat serious accident to the Taupo mail couch is reported by a correspondent of the “Times.” The coach left the south spit at 6 a.m. on the 7th, with four passengers, Mrs Hindmarch, her daughter, and a young ■lady friend of theirs, and Mr Booth. Heaty rain was falling, and the low-lying country about Lately was flooded. After going a few miles the driver, who is a splendid whip, saw it was impossible to continue the journey, and tho ladies got out and went to some friends at a station close by. Mr Booth decided to stop at the hotel in Pately. The coach was then taken on a little further, so as to get room to turn round. On attempting to cross a rotten culvert tho near side leader dropped bodily through into the flood below. In an instant the four horses and the coach were ih one heap in the stream, with the driver underneath. A young man, a friend of the driver* happened to bo at hand, who jumped into the stream and managed to get him from underneath the coach, which lay across his body, Tho horses meanwhile were kicking, and broke the coach a good deal. Tho men set to work to cut tho traces and got them free, which was done without damage beyond some cuts and bruises. The broken coach is left in the stream until a body of men can be gathered to get it out, and tho mails and baggage are lodged in safety for the present at Carr’s place, close by. It is a most fortunate circumstance that the passengers had left the coach without wailing for it to be turned round. Had they not done so, the accident would in all probability have been attended with loss of life. Tho road for some miles is said to be in a very dangerous state, and tho residents are looking to the Government for assistance.