NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1664, 20 June 1879, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND.

[FBOiI OTJB OWN COEBESPONDEN?.] DUNEDIN, June 20. Cromwell sends down, by escort, 6000 ounces this week. An enquiry, re tho Athenaeum fire, will be held tomorrow. The police have practically arrested Cummock, though no information has, as yet, been laid against him. RANGIORA, Juno 20, The rain last night was tho heaviest; known for some joars in the northern district. All the rivers are flooded. All attempts made to cross the Waipara with the mails have to this hour failed. [PBB PBESS AGENCY.] HOKITIKA, June 20. An extraordinary general meeting of tho shareholders of the Hokitika Quartz-mining Company re winding up, was hold last night. Resolutions wero passed, and the meeting adjourned for a fortnight, when an audited statement of accounts is to h& presented. WELLINGTON, June 20. With a view of popularising the meetings of tho Philosophy Society, lectures are to be introduced.

At the horse sale yesterday draught horses fetched £ls to £35. Another Prophechy. PATE A, June 20. Te Whiti has predioted that a large host will surround Parihaka, and take him prisoner, aiid that the Maories will not resist ; that he will be put to death, but that on the third day he will rise from the dead, and the pakeha will fall down and worship him, but that the pakeha sinners will be destroyed. Katene eiys that there is no pah inland of Parihaka, and Natives themselves say 'that Te Whiti is their pah and (heir stronghold. A Satisfactory Crushing. REEF.TON, June 20. The Welcome Company cleaned up at Battery Boatman's yesterday. After crushing 608 tons of stone the result was 20270 z. 18dwfc. of gold, or an average of nearly three and a half ounces per ton. A dividend will be declared to-day. The company will resume crushing in six waoks. AUCKLAND, Juno 19. The polling to decide the question of the establishment of a freo public library for Auckland begun to-day at 9 a.m., and continued till 4 p.m. Great interest was manifested in the poll throughout the day. The result was posted up as follows—for, 728 ; against, 91 ; majority for, 638. Rewi visited the Public Works office, accompanied by Mr Young, Native interpreter, and was much interested in the explanation of the diagrams and immense eitent of country surveyed. He was presented by E. W. Ofcway, office engineer, with a meerschaum pipe. The Governor goes to Waikato by special train at half-past nine to-morrow morning with Colonel Whitmore, Rewi, and the Rev. W.O.Thompson. He will return to Wellington about the end of July. The Harbor Board proposes to erect another outer T on the East Queen-street wharf, 200 ft. long, at a cost of £3OO. The engineer reports favorably, and recommends the erecting of new offices for receivers, in place of tho3e existing. The report was referred to the works committee.

At tho Police Court to-day, John Henry Hunter waß charged with turning an infant child out of the houso and threatening to take its life, compelling it to seek protection at the Police Station. Defondant stated that complainant chopped his favorite poodle into three pieces. Defendant waß bound over. During the passage of the Rowena from Coromandel this afternoon, a man on board, named Joseph Davies, was seized with a fit, and expired almost instantaneously. At the time of his death he was en his way to Waikato to purchase a farm. He leaves a widow and family at Coromandel. WELLINGTON, June 19. In the Kinross case Mr Rees said he had written to the Speaker of the Legislative Council asking permission for the assistant clork to give evidence in the case but, as ho had not received a reply the case was adjourned. The Titanic Sbeel Iron Company obtained judgment in the R.M. Court to-day against a largo number of shareholders for amounts from £lO to £l5O. The Union Steam Company do not intend to reduce the rate of wages at present. A public meeting will be held on Monday to consider the question of providing a new cemetery for tbe city. Thomas Shaldere, telegraph operator, was drowned at Wakapuaka. He went out in a fishing boat, which was found capsized. He was twenty-six years old, and leaves a widow ar,d child. It is understood that tho Government do not intend to propose any further reduction in Customs duties next session. Owing to the falling off in land revenue it is not considered advisable to make any rash disturbance of the financial position. It is hoped tho improvement in tho railway receipts and increase in the land tax will make up any deficiency. Tho first measure to be introduced by the Government will bo the Representation Bill, bringing in a residential and rating qualification. At the inquest on the fire to-day the verdict was that there was no ovidence to show how the firo originated, but it was clearly shown that it did not originate in the dome or through tho agency of gas, but somewhere in the roof of the Opera House, inside and adjoining the working men's club. The " New Zealander " to-day called attention to the fact that one of the reporters for that paper called at the Customs for certain information regarding thedutieß collected during the day, and the separate sums paid on various descriptions of goods, and that on asking for tho information the clerk said ho could have it on the same terms as the " New Zealand Times," £lO per year. The " New Zealander " denounced such a system of black mail, and added that newspaper proprietors who submitted to being fleeced that way were culpable for doing so, and it only mentioned the matter in order that it might be fully inquired into. An inquiry before the Collector of Customs and other officers of the Government was held this afternoon, and tho result was that the officer referred to was sua pended for the present. At the meeting of the Council to-night tho subject of establishing a Hook and Ladder Company was opened, and the discussion postponed. Notice of motion will be given in favor of at once arranging to increase the present water supply by bringing into town the stream of water in the Wainui-o-mata Valley, and enlarging the main. Another Councillor will move that the larger mains be ordered from homo at once, and that on their arrival the present ones be utilised fo? the purpose of bringing in the Wainui-o-matu stream.

The Government has information from Parihaka that there is great discontent amongst Ta Whiti's followers, who say his prophesies failed, that Europeans are arming, and if there is any disturbance, Titokowaru will help the Europeans. The Government are sanguine that they will bo able to resume the Waimate survey shortly. WANGANUI, June 19. John Smith, an elderly man of dissipated habits, formerly of Nelson, was found dead in the street at seven this morning. At the inquest the verdict was tbat deceased died from fatty degeneration of the heart. KELSON, Juno 19. Between 300 and 400 objections to the valuations under the Land Tax Act have been received up to date for Nelson ciistrict. TIMARU, Juno 19. A mp.n named Andrew Shab, while taking a bag of wheat on his back out of a c urt at the Government landing service to-day, fell and broke his leg. The case, Court v Sludholme, is not expected to be finished this week. The Court will sit to-morrow, notwithstanding that it will be a Court holiday, being the anniversary of her Majesty's accession to the Thr >ne. A very numerously-signed petition has been sent forward to the Governor by the ratepayers in the Mount Cook riding of Geraldine County, praying that that riding be constituted a sjparale county. The new 20-ton iron cargo boat for the George street landing service, arrived from the Canterbury Foundry by special triin today. The Waimate County Council set eighteen of the unemployed to work on the roads near the township. OAMARU, June 19. Mrs Ann Hester Eado died suddenly at Waimate at four o'clock yesterday afternoon, owing to the bursting of a blood vessel. No one was in the house at the time except a little boy. DUNEDIN, Juno 19. The Athenaeum committee indignantly deny having committed a felony by refusing to undertako a prosecution for embezzlement. They state that they called upon Cummock, assistant librarian, to refund the money, without holding out any hope or expectation to him of not prosecuting, and that within half an hour after he had confessed his guilt they gave information to tho police. Cummock, the person in question, refunded £lO7. Tonight's "Star" says he has bolted, but if so he cannot have gone far from Dunedin. The residence at Green Island of W. O. Norman, goods traflic manager of railways, was totally destroyed by fire at four o'clock this morning. The insurances are :—Australian Alliance, £SOO on the house ; South British, £415 on furniture Colonial, £3OO on furniture. The Royal Commission on Education is sitting here. Between May lGth and June 13th, nominations wore made in Dunedin for 273 souls, equal to 233 statute adults, the largest number of applications received within a similar period for a long time past. Letters from home, describing the distress, have a great doJi to do with it. Two thousand two hundred and fifty objections were made to the land tax valuation in Otago<

INVEBCARGHLIf, June 19. Mr H. Feldwick, M.H.R., addressed a well-attendeil meeting at the Theatre Royal this evening, Mr Pratt in the chair. His speech was chiifly a resume of the proceedings of last session. He reminded his hearer* of the promises he had made them from the hustings, and compared them with his actions in Parliament. He submitted that he had kept faith with his constituents. Re the question of education, he took his stand as a secularist, but would not object to ttie reading of the Bible as a historical work, provided a conscience clause were inserted in the Act authorising it. As for the temperance question, he would not support a Local Option Bill that did not provide compensation for the publicans. He would not be one to take away the license from a well conducted house. He himself upheld the Ministry and their measures, but would not give a mere blind support. He was in favor of moderate immigration, as public works and immigration must go hand-in-hand. A vote of thanks and confidence was passed.