NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1645, 29 May 1879, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND.

[PBB PBESB AGENCY.] AUCKLAND, May 29. The Lyttelton brigantine Flora was offered for sale by auction to-day. There was no bid higher than £650. The auctioneer said he would submit the offer to the owner. A Sydney telegram quotes potatoes firm, at £4 15s. A previous telegram published on Tuesday, naming a higher figure, was incorrect.' 1 ■ ! ' il ' i ■ * aov oitb own cobbespondent.] DUNEDIN, May 2p. Moore’s centenary last evening was a grsat success. Over one hundred were at the banquet. A very old man, caretaker at the Government Buildings, whose wife had twins two years ago, presented him with triplets yesterday. Thirty-six Corporation suburban building sections, quarter acres, were let at auction at prices from £lO to £2l each per annum. Wm, Thomson, a settler ju Otago of thirty years standing, is dead. The Native Crisis. WANGANUI, May 29. Sir William Fox addressed a meeting of constituents at Waverley, and was most attentively listened to and frequently cheered. A resolution of the fullest confidence and thanks was unanimously carried. On Wednesday evening a meeting of the vigilance committee wac held to consider a message from Major Brown that Kcrt&pa, whose turbijlenf .character is well known, has threatened to follow the example of Hiroki, by murdering the settle pj and Major Brown particularly. That the latter might be warned the subject was brought before Sir W. Fox, who telegraphed to the Minister for Defence, suggesting the arming of settlers, and that steps should be E ken to secure Keropa. No reply had been recei'ed when the meeting assembled. The meeting was a crowded one, and rosolu ions were passed that a n omorigl bo forwai ded to Government, asking t flcm to arm settle s and arrest Kereopa. The memorial was prepared immediately and numerously Bgned. Jt will be forwarded at once. A resolution was also passed by which ih >-e pregent agreed t? poro] tbpjeselvp* as volunteer*.

The survey parties in the neighborhood have been brought in, and will not be sent to the field again until sufficient protection is provided. WELLINGTON, May 29. Efforts are being made toestablisba cottage hospital and lying-in refuge for destitute women in Te Aro. The Governor has forwarded to the Secretary for the Sydney Exhibition Commission copies of photographs received from Sydney by his Excellency showing the weekly progress of the work at the Exhibition up to the 18th inst. At a meeting of the creditors of N. J. Isaacs, auctioneer, the total liabilities were shown to be £26,000, the principal creditor, the Colonial Bank, being secured, its claim being £13,000. It is supposed that the estate will realise fire shillings in the pound to unsecured creditors. The apparatus for the electric light intended to be used for the football match was fitted up last night, and will be experimented with to-night. There will bo two lights at each end of the grand stand, and the two streams of light being directed towards each goal will cross each other and prevent any shadows. On the last occasion when the carriages on the Hutt railway were illuminated by gas, manufactured on the train, the light was liable to be put out by sudden jerks. Since then the arrangement have been so perfected that a brilliant and equable light is maintained unaffected by oscillation or jolting. William Henderson, alias Alonia, was charged this morning before the Resident Magistrate with stealing a £2O note from Captain Bell. Henderson wsa committed for trial. NEW PLYMOUTH, May 29. The Native Question- . Forty men of the Armed Constabulary, with arms and ammunition, were landed from the Hinemoa at noon to-day. [iTEOlt OUB OWN OOHBBgrOKDBNX.] TIMARU, May 28. A special meeting of the Harbor Board was held to-day to consider the question of getting a steam tug or launch for the harbor. Several witnesses were examined as to the practicability of the undertaking, the majority of whom thought a fifteen horse power launch would be more useful than a forty horsepower tug. No conclusion was come to, and the meeting adjourned to Tuesday next to take further evidence.

[Press Special Wire.] AUCKLAND, May 23. Considerable exitemept was caused at Hamilton, Waikato, yesterday, owing to tho disentombing of two skeletons, while a footpath was being excavated. They Ffere the skeletons of an adult and child.

The City Council to-day resolved to take over tho Mechanics’ Institute property for the purpose of forming the nucleus of a Free Public Library. The Native Minister is still suffering from quinsey. He returned to Waikato to bring the chief Eewi to Auckland to meet the Governor.

At the City Council to-day a ratepayer, named Geo. Staines, entered his written protest against £SOO of the ratepayers’ money being voted towards decorations, etc, for the Governor’s visit. Mr Goldie proposed that the letter be received, and a solicitor’s opinion obtained as to whether the Council was acting illegally in voting £6OO. Councillor Buchanan thought the money should be voted, and if action was taken against them, he would willingly bear his proportion of the vote should it be saddled upon them. Other councillors spoke in a similar strain. The motion lapsed. A young man named John Burke was arrested this afternoon for alleged breaking and entering the counting house of Messrs Collie, Scott, and Wilkinson, of Wanganui. He is stated to have taken the cash box and six £5 notes, eighty-six £1 notes, fifty-six sovereigns, half-a-sovereign, and cheque for £ls 13s 4i, and £ll 4s in gold and silver. An inquest was held this afternoon on tho body of Samuel Kidson, who died from gunshot,wounds on the right arm. The evidence given showed that Eidson bad been shooting with a friend, near Wangaroa. He grasped his gun by the muzzle. The trigger caught in an exposed root, discharging the shot in deceased’s arm. He leaves a wife and child. NAPIER, May 28. The hearing of the charge of wife murder against McLennan was continued at the R.M. Court to-day and again adjourned till tomorrow.

WELLINGTON, May 28. The “Post” says it is generally understood that the new loan, about to be proposed by the Government, will be for £3,000,000, unless a very strong opinion is expressed by the House that the sum should be larger. It is thought that the recent experience of other Australian colonies and that of New Zealand in regard to the last loan tends to show that a throe-million loan is quite large enough to place on the London money market with a fair prospect of its being successfully floated. Tho charge against Mrs Sutherland 'of setting fire to her house at Raiwarra occupied the R.M. Court tho greater portion of the day. A largo amount of evidence was taken, but as it was of a conflicting character the case was dismissed.

His Excellency the Governor was entertained at dinner to-night by members of the Club} there were sixty-seven members present. The chair was occupied by Mr George Hunter, M.H.8., president of the Club, and the vice-chair by Mr A. Brandon, vice-presi-dent. The total collected to date for the Kaitangata fund is £1155. In the case of the man found drowned op the beach at Lyell’s Bay, the jury returned verdict of “Found drowned.”

The Hinemoa left to-night for New Plymouth with thirty-five or forty pf the Armed Constabulary, and it is said a quantity of stores and arms.