NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1668, 25 June 1879, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND.

[from oite otvn coeebspondeni.] DUNEDIN, Juno 23. Another case of falsifying the register of school attendances comes before the Eduoation Board to-morrow. [pee press agency.] AUCKLAND, June 25. Dr. Thornelly has resigned the position of manager of the Lunatic Asylum in consequence of ill-health. If well enough, ho will proceed to England by the next Suez mail. NEW PLYMOUTH, June 25. The Maoris resumed ploughing on Courtney’s farm, Tapuao, with four ploughs this morning. A number of Maori bullock carts, laden with Hour, are about to proceed to Parihaka. The Harbor Board propose commencing operations on the breakwater immediately. KIHIKIHI, Jure 25. The Native Crisis, Rewl desires it to bo published that the report about five hundred Ngatimaniopotos having been offered to the Government is fdte, which ho requests may be at once contradicted. Rewi says, “Why should wo fight, I and To Wbiti are one. There is not the least fear of the Ngatimaniopotos fighting against their own people, or assisting to oppose To Whiti. The Ngatimaniopotos do not want to fight with Maoris or Europeans. WELLINGTON, June 25. Tenders have been received nt the Public Works office for the Riverton and Orepuki railway. Accepted—D. Robertson, Invercargill, £21,700. Declined —Taylor and McKenzie, £23,103. AUCKLAND June 24. At the Police Court to-day H. Fred William Colson, formerly a clergyman and a man of high attainments, was brought up [on a charge of vagrancy. Accused said ho could not plead guilty, as ho had sixpence in his pocket. If the Bench would grant a remand ho would explain his position. Sub-Inspector Pardy said the Court could have no idea of prisoner’s filthy condition. The best plan was to send him to prison and give him time to think. He was sentenced to three months, Two hundred persons attended Lady Robinson’s “at home ” last evening. £

WELLINGTON, June 24. A select party took a trip to-day to test the new Fairlie engine, eingle boiler, which went around the sharpest curves at. 40 (?) miles an hour, with a heavy train behind.

Mr Sheehan returns to Wellington on Friday. The Wakatipu brought 200 bundles of tents for the G-overnrnent.

The last lot of Constabulary were sent off: in such a hurry that they wero without uniforms, which were not ready. The Union Company intend putting on the Ringarooma as an extra steamer on the opening of the Sydney Exhibition TIMARU, June 24.

At a special meeting of the Harbor Board, to-day the following resolution, the terms of which Mr Anderson has accepted, was passed—" That the Board will accept Mr Anderson's offer to allow the crane to be worked for four-and-a-half months from the the date of completion of the present repairs to the crane, the present payment to be made by the Board to be 75 per cent, of the contract price, without a further test now. If the present breakwater contract is not com* pleted within four-and-a-half months, as above specified, the Board to pay interest at the rate of 8 per cent, per annum from the expiration of that period, until the said contract is completed, on such amount as may bo due to Mr Anderson, Mr Auderson to maintain tho crane until the above term of four and half months has expired. On completion of the present breakwater contract tho amount to be paid to Mr Anderson, and all disputed questions, it any, to be submitted to arbitration and. bo made a rule of tho Supreme Court." A man named Brown, in the employ o£ Jonas, Hart, and Wildie, was thrown from his horse this evening, and received serious injuries.

A fire occurred en the premises of Lewis, a gardener, at Maori Hill, last night, by which, tho hothouse containing a quantity of valuable plants was destroyed, the loss being estimated at £IOO. It is supposed to have been the work of an incendiary. Last evening a man named Baker, in the employ of Mr Evans, a grain merchant, wag driving a dray along the North road, when his legs got entangled in the reins, and the horses bolting at the same tiins, he was dragged at a rapid pace for a considerable dietance. On being picked up he was conveyed to the Hospital, where it was found that one leg was broken, and his head severely cut. DUNEDIN, June 24. Mr Stout has intimated that he cannot alter his previous determination to retire from the Assembly. Yesterday, at Milton, an old man named Henry Longstaff, fell into a drain whilst carrying a sack of flour. Up to a late hour last night he lay in a critical condition. INVERCARGILL, Jvue 24. Patrick and James McNamara were this morning brought up at the Police Court on remand, charged with feloniously and maliciously killing the entire horse, Young Lofty. Inspector Fox applied for a further remand on the ground that an important witness was not yet forthcoming. The request was acceded to. A reward is offered for information that may lead to the arrest of tho witness in question. The installation banquet of the Southern Croas Lodge, E.G., was held this evening, and was Humerougly attended. Bro. C. E. Reade was installed as W.M., and he appointed the various other officers.