NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1634, 16 May 1879, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND.

[PEE PEES 9 AGENCY.] AUCKLAND, May 16. Mr Perkins’ stud of race horses was sold this morning, and realised good prices. The Forbury Meeting. For the Forbury meeting, on the Queen’s Birthday, there is very little doing in the betting market, the favourite double being York and Chancellor. Deferred. Payment Purchases. For eight of the Kurou deferred payment sections there were forty-two applications’ One section had eleven applicants. AUCKLAND, May 15. At a meeting of the Governor's reception committee this morning, preparations were made for an elaborate procession, banquet, and ball. The acreage and estimated crop of grain and potatoes for New Zealand for 1879, compiled from the returns collected in February last are : Wheat, 264,577 acres, estimated to produce 6,070,599 bushels ; oats, 277,547 acres, estimated to produce 8,357,150 bushels; barley, 28,646 acres, estimated to produce 709,465 bushels ; potatoes, 17,299 acres, estimated to produce 86,186 tons. The new Supreme Court buildings, for which tenders are about to be at once called, will be of brick. The new post office and telegraph offices are to be fine buildings, also of brick, on the reclaimed land. Plans are in course of preparation. It is probable the removal of he post and telegraph offices from the present site will be strongly opposed by the whole mercantile community, the present site being the most central obtainable. The I talian Government offers a prize for the best essay on trees of the genus citrus. Mr Caro and the “ Morning Herald.” DUNEDIN, May 16. In reference to what was said regarding the Dunedin “ Morning Herald ” at the meeting of the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce, it may be said that the “ Herald ” gives special care to commercial matters, and that, so lar from publishing sensational and unjustifiable statements, it only the other day called attention to the reprehensible action of some Ifew Zealand papers in publishing exaggeracd reports of commercial matters. A Sensational CaseA case of great interest, between the cap - tain of an American vessel and two British subjects, is expected to come on at the Resident Magistrate’s Court, Dunedin. The matters to be disclosed in evidence occurred on the high seas. The case excites some attention from it having been threatened to put the two persons on board a vessel at Port Chalmers against their will and convoy them to New York. DUNEDIN, May 15. Dr. Somerville, according to Home letters, is about to start on an Evangelical tour on the continent of Europe. The jury at the inquest on Paton, who was killed by the kick of a horse in the Provincial Saleyards, found a verdict of “ Accidental death,” adding that when horses are offered for public sale they should be ridden with a bridle, and not with a halter. Mr John Bathgate, R.M., is to be transferred to Wellington, and Mr •Mansford to Dunedin. [I’EOSI OUE OWN COEEESTONDENT.] Timibu, May 15. The session of the Grand Orange Lodge of the Middle Island has been opened in Timaru. The A.W.G.M. presided. In regard to the erection of a new Orange Hull in Christchurch, a proposition which had been mooted at last meeting of the Grand Lodge, the R W.G.M. stated that he had received a letter to the effect that nothing had been done at present in the matter, owing to the tightness ot the money market. The “Evening Telegraph,” at Timaru, was appointed the official journal of the Order for the Middle Island. Bros. Fisher and Clifford were appointed auditors for the ensuing half- ■, ear. It was resolved to hold the next session in |Dunedin. William Payne died last night from the injuries received at. the landing service on Tuesday. An inquest will be held tomorrow,

The body of the late Mr Ostler is expected to arrive in town to-morrow, when an inquest will be held. The Waimate “ Tribune” is in the market, [Press Special Wire.] AUCKLAND, May 15, Sir O. Orey left Auckland to-day in the Hinemoa. After landing the Premier at the Kawau, Captain Fairchild will proceed to the Bay of Islands, land the Natives, take in coal, and go to Mongonui, returning to Auckland via Kawau on Saturday night or Sunday morning, Mr Sheehan has important business in the Waikato, and will not return to Auckland until the end of the week. OEAHAMSTOWN, May 15. The railway surveyors have stopped at the Komata through the obstructiveness of Tukukino, although the latter has not shown any hostility since the Native Meeting, which he attended; but, the Government think it advisable to conciliate him pending the settlement of land negotiations.

NAPIER, May 15. The body of Miss Julia Fatham was found at three o'clock this afternoon in the Tutakerua river. The circumstances so far lead to the supposition that she committed suicide, though no motive is known, and it is besides stated that she was in cheerful spirits when she left Mr Powdrell's on Monday afternoon, and also when she left Mr Harson’s to return homo on the name evening. When the horse was found there were no signs upon it of its having been in the water, and where Miss Fatham’s footprints on the banks of the river were found there were horse’s hoofprints. WELLINGTON, May 15.

Following appointments are gazetted: — 0. B. Taylor, United States Consular agent, Christchurch ; W. Stuart, Examiner of Titles for Canterbury ; A, Wakefield, Under Secretary for Mines. The Post Office Hotel had a narrow escape from being burned down last night. The fire broke out in a dust bin where the cook had put some ashes nearly twenty-four hours before. It was accidentally discovered about three this morning, and put out before damage to any extent ensusd. The Governors of Wellington College have managed to stave off their most pressing difficulties by borrowing £SOOO for five years at ten per cent. The Government to-day accepted a tender for the first section of the Otago Central Railway. The name of the successful tenderer and the amount will not be published until the contract is signed. Mr Mills, of the Lion Foundry, is the successful tenderer for supplying all railway stores required by the Wanganui and Napier lines, and for the greater portion of those for the Wellington and Peatherston lines for the next eighteen months. Wm. Toogood, of Peatherston, storekeeper, assigned his estate. Several business men complain of the amount of time they have to devote to meetings of creditors almost daily. An important judgment was given at the B.M. Court to-day. Donaldson claimed £IOO commission for being the means of selling Bowden’s stationery business. Defendant did not deny the sale of the business effected through plaintiff, but the latter was employed because defendant understood he was acting for and was to be paid by the purchasers of the business. The magistrate considered the plaintiff entitled to commission, and gave judgment accordingly. The “ Gazette ” notifies that reserve No. 384, part of the land vested in the Timaru Harbor Board by the Endowment Act, 1878, is taken for railway purposes. Certain lands are taken for roads in Port Victoria Road district, county of Akaroa. The Springston recreation ground has been brought under the Public Domains Act, and the necessary powers delegated to the Domain Board. Powers under the Lunatics Act are delegated to the following persons :—R. C. Baritow, Auckland ; H. B. Kenny, Hawke’s Bay ; E. Shaw, Taranaki; T. A. Mansford, Wellington j L. Broad, Nelson j J. Giles, Westland; G. L. Hellish, Canterbury ; J, Bathgate, Otago, Major Charles Heaphy, V.C., has received power to grant leases of Native reserves for a period not exceeding twenty-one years, to give valid receipts for rents, to assent to transfers and assignments and accept surrenders of leases from tenants in possession, and to distribute among Natives beneficially interested the net proceeds of rents and profits of Native reserves.

Additional regulation# under the Salmon and Trout Act are gazetted. NELSON, May 15. Last night when it was quite dark two sisters named Smith, aged 17 and 19, were crossing the railway bridge over the Wairoa river, near Brightwater, when the former fell through, and slipped twenty feet into the water. The other sister immediately jumped in after her. Her screams brought assistance, but almost too late, as the younger one was lying to all appearance lifeless at the bottom pf the river, and the other being only just conscious. They were taken to a neighboring inn, where, after three-quarters of an hour, they were restored.