NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1631, 13 May 1879, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND.

[PER PEB3B AGENCY.! WELLINGTON, May 12. Henry Anderson was brought up this morning, charged with having committed a deadly assault upon R. 0. Easby, a blindmaker, in hia own house, but thia information was amended to one of wilfully jand maliciously wounding Easby with a pair of tongs, such being an indictable offence. The Magistrate said the case was of too serious a nature for him to deal with it. Anderson’s counsel notified that his client had laid a counter-information of a precisely similar nature against Easby. After taking the evidence of Easby, who appeared to bo much cut and bruised about the face, the case was adjourned till Wednesday. DUN DIN, May 10. A man named Richard Patten, about fiftyfive years of age, whilst standing in the Provincial yards, on Saturday afternoon, was knocked over by a horse. Ho was removed to the Hospital in an insensible condition, where he lingered until 10 o’clock last night when he died. The deceased was well known. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT^ TIMARU, May 12. A man named William Little was found in a dying state in a shed at Albury to-day, and before medical aid could be summoned he expired. At the inquest the evidence showed that death was caused by congestion of the lungs and brain, brought on by drink and exposure. At the Resident Magistrate’s Court to-day a laborer named Patrick Rooney was charged with violently resisting the removal of grain from the farm of Dav.d Jones. Ho had been working for Jones for a long time, but through the latter failing he got no wages, and whenWildie, an auctioneer whose firm had alien on Jones’s grain, went to take possession, Rooney refused to let the grain be removed, till hia wages, amounting to over £7O, was paid. The case was dismissed, the proof of violence not being strong enough. OAMARU, May 12. A boy named William, about five years old, son of John Elliott, who arrived here on Saturday on hia way to Auckland, were drowned in a concrete tank, at the rear of the Bay Yiew Temperance Hotel, yesterday. Ho 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. [Press Special Wire.J AUCKLAND, May 12. The Governor is expected hero on the last day of the present month. A sub-committee has been appointed to carry out arrangements for his reception. The bazaar in aid of St.! James’ Presbyterian schoolroom realised £266.

The long disputed point between the City Council and Harbor Board, as to who should make roads on the land reclaimed by the Harbor Board, is aettled, both bodies agreeing to pay half. Henry Kesing, a very old Hebrew settler, died in his eighty-ninth year. A gardener named Priestly, employed by Dr. Wright, being missed to-night, the doctor went in search of him in the garden with a lantern. He discovered him lying dead in a bed of tomatoes. Deceased was in good health all day. Mr Clark, C.E., sent his report on drainage to the Council to-day. The report is very voluminous, and is accompanied by diagrams. The charge to the city is £3OO. One hundred and twenty tone of Waikato coal were taken by the steamer Wellington for her southern voyage. NAPIER, May 12.

Last Saturday a Bailing boat containing two men was capsi?ed in the inner harbor. One of the men swam ashore, but the other was drowned. The latter was a seaman recently discharged from the schooner Saxon, and waß only known by the name of "Charley." WELLINGTON, May 12.

A public meeting was held at the Athenaeum with the object of starting a free library. Mr W. Johnston, M.H.A., occupied the chair, and addressed the meeting at Borne length. A resolution was carried affirming the desirability of establishing a free library, and a committee was appointed to carry out the object. The hon. secretary to the Kaitangata Eelief Fund at Dunediu, writing to the town clerk at Wellington in regard to the fund, says : "My own private opinion in the matter is, seeing that the public has come so nobly forward and subscribed an amount in excess of what I think will be required, that the fund might be established or developed into a national accident fund under an Act of Parliament, the widows and orphans of the Kaitangata accident being the first claimants, and the trustees appointed in various parts of the colony." It is reported that there are suspicious circumstances connected with the fire at Kaiwarra, that some of the furniture was removed out of the house on Saturday night.