NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1661, 17 June 1879, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND.

[bee bebbs agency.] WELLINGTON, June 17. The question of getting a floating steam engine is again being revived. The Wesleyan congregation have secured the Arcade in which to hold service and keep their school. The Kinross case occupied the Court all today, the greater portion of tho time being taken up with legal points. Little progress is made as yot. Mr Rees is conducting tho case for the prosecution. The Kinross case is again adjourned till Thursday next. Two-thirds of the losses sustainsd by the Trans-Atlantic Insurance Company by the late fire is covered by re-insurances in Home offices. WESTPORT, June 17. An M.H.R. in Difficulties. Dr. Henry, member for the Duller, was picked up by a carter, on Sunday night, in a stream about six miles from Lyell. The carter put him into his dray and deposited him at the first public house. Dr. Henry appears to have been coming from Lyell, where ho had been stopping, when, on crossing the stream, he fell from his horse. The horse cantered off and left him, and be groped about in the water, it being very shallow, until he scrambled on to a shingle bank in midstream, where, thinking he was on safe ground, he evidently fell to sleep and there he lay in blissful ignorance of the rising water closing round him, when tho carter, attracted by his dog, lit a candle and found him. If this had not taken place, he would probably have been washed down the Duller, as the river was rising. [from our own CORRESPONDENT. I O AMARU, June 17. At noon, to-day, the body of a man was observed floating in a creek opposite the Star and Garter Hotel. A crowd soon collected, and one man stripped, swam out to tho body, and brought it ashore. The doccace 1h is not been identified yet. It is supposed that he has been In the water about fourteen days. Later. The body has been identified. The man’s name was McDonald, or Donald McGuiness, a Scotchman, aged fifty-five. DUNEDIN, June 16.

John Moon, convicted for rape last sessions, received his second flogging of twenty-five lashes. Ho suffered severely. Mary Edwards, with a baby in arms, and whoso husband had deserted her, pleaded guilty in the Police Court, to wholesale robberies of drapery. She was remanded to enable the police to make enquiries. WELLINGTON, Juno 16. A deputation from the Chamber of Commerce waited on the Premier by appointment to-day, in reference to the formation of a Harbor Board for Wellington. Several memhers of the deputation pointed out tho great necessity for a Harbor Board. The Premier replied that he thought the corporation would have taken the matter in hand, but if the Chamber wished to take the question up, and would present them with a draft of the Bill they wanted to introduce, he would consider the matter and inform them what were the views of the Government on the ■ubjeot, 5 „The Stella took sixty more Armed Constabulary for New Plymouth to-day. The insurance agents to-day voted each brigade £SO, and the Naval Brigade and Salvage Corps £25 each. Mr Thos. Mason, of tho Hutt, announces himself as a candidate for that seat. He believes in the prosecution of public works and raising a loan for that purpose. He thinks Crown lands should be sold on deferred payment. The Native question requires, in his opinion, careful consideration. Land, as well as other property, should, he considers, bear a fair portion of the burden of taxation. Within an hour of the Opera House being burnt down, Browne, the manager, had arranged for Hiscocks and Hayman’s company to appear at tho Theatre Royal. DUNEDIN, June 16. The Loan and Mercantile Company have given free storage for Otago exhibits for tho Sydney Exhibition. The prisoner John Moon, convicted at the last sessions of rape, underwent the second and last portion of his flogging in the large yard of the gaol at ten o’clock this day. Ho appeared to feel the punishment severely. Tho Chinaman charged with passing counterfeit coin has been remanded. It appeared that ho had brought some Spanish coins from Hong Kong, and attempted to put them into circulation here. In opening tho Licensing Court at Clyde, Mr Simpson, R.M., made tho following observations : - “ Complaints were being made throughout the district, in no one particular place, but very generally, upon the system that holders of licenses were gradually drifting into in the conduct of their houses. The system was that of sacrificing the legitimate hotel business for the liquor traffic only. It jyialbeunderitoQ^dhakllmHjjmJll^jjjjivi^

noticed, had been touched upon by tbr Dunedin bench, who hare fully made up their minds not to be a party to it, md further, when it come* under* their notice that any house for which a license is scughfc is not in good repair and has not comfortable accommodation, the liesnte will be refused. It is simply that grog shanties, into which many houses are degenerating, will not be licensed, and if holders of houses cannot see their way clear to keep them in good and substantial repair and to provide the requisite and necessary accommodation, the applications will b© refused. The Bench, not desiring to end. denly depreciate the value of property, would, this year, grant all applications, but the remarks made it would be well to bear in mind, as they were resolved not to perpetuate the system that had been so slowly but surely growing. The police in future reports should deal with the question of number of houses required.” ASHBURTON, June HI. The “ Ashburton Mail ” appears to-morrow in enlarged size, and will be the largest broad sheet published in the colony. The Borough Council has resolved to reduce the wages of the day labor gang to 6s 6d, and increase the number, so as to employ those now idle. The farmer Daly has been finally committed for trial on three charges under the Fraudulent Debtors’ Act for concealing and removing, horses and obtaining money by false pretences. BALOLUniA, June 1(5, At a meeting of the Balclutha Presbyterian congregation this afternoon it was resolved to request the Presbytery to moderate in a call to the Rev. G. Morice, of Hokitika.