NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1681, 10 July 1879, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND.

[rEOM OtTli OWN CGEEESrONDENT.] DUNEDIN, July 10. Murray, who has been committed for the rape of his own daughter, was in receipt of £4OO a year. The Magistrate refused bail, until steps could be taken for Testing the custody of the child in some guardian. Only two common and one special jury case are fixed for the civil sittings of the Supreme Court. The special jury case is an action brought by Mr Solomon, a music dealer at Oamaru, against the South British Company. Electioneering 1 News. Mr Stewart’s chances of election are con- * sidered good. Mr Beeves is the only other candidate. Mr Stewart has announced himself as opposed to the Government. [>KB PEKSS AGBNOT.] AUCKLAND, July 10. A three-roomed cottage at the top of Wakefield street, occupied by Constable Rist of the Armed Constabulary, was burned early this morning. The constable was on duty at the station house, and his wife and children were alone in the house. Bist heard the alarm, and warned the other members of the force, who ran to the fire and had to send word back that it was Eist’s own house. Bist loses everything. The house was owned by Irvine, and insured for £SO in the New Zealand office. Chaplin and Osborne company have made a hit with Sullivan’s comedy “Engaged.” The company is the most complete that hss been in Auckland for a long period. NELSON, July 10. The Attorney-Generalship, This morning’s “ Colonist ” says it is rumoured that Mr Acton Adams, M.H.B. f u r Nelson City, is about to join the Ministry as Attorney-General. Mr Adams contradicts the rumor to the extent of saying that it has not been “ definitely ” offered to him. - WELLINGTON, July 10, It is understood that arrangements have been nearly completed with the U.S. Co. to run an extra boat weekly {luring the Parliamentary session for a subsidy of a thousand pounds. The Political Ploughmen. Twenty-four Maori prisoners were landed hero this morning. The constabulary bagracks being overcrowded, fresh quarters are being obtained. Of the Maoris in custody yesterday thirty-fire are from friendly tribes and twenty-six from the rebel section. . -AUCKLAND, July 9. The statement that Dr. Young was appointed Superintendent of the Asylum against Dr. Skae’s opinion is incorrect. Dr. Skae concurred in the nomination, which gives great satisfaction. WELLINGTON, July 9, It is stated on good authority that the fiscal measures to be proposed by the Government in the coming session include the reimposition of duties on imported timber and grain, taken off last session. The Commissioners who will open Parliament on Friday are to be Sir William Fitzherbort, Colonel Whitmore, and Sir F. Dillon Bell.

Mr Bunny will be the Ministerial candidate for the chairmanship of committees. A portfolio, as Minister of Mines, will be entrusted to Mr Gisborne.

A free Bible school will.be opened in about a fortnight. The new Fairlie engines on the Masterton line promise to bo a great success on the incline. They go where the line is favorable at the rate of forty miles an hour. The following tenders were received at the Public Works Offices, for the Temuka bridge contract of Canterbury interior main line, Oxford to Temuka : —Accepted : Henderson and Fergus, Dunedin, £4318. Declined: T. S, Parson, Christchurch, £4817; W. Paisley, Dunedin, £5070 ; J. Phillip, Timaru, £5252. For the River Eyre bridge contract of the same line, the tender accepted was that of Henderson and Fergus, Dunedin, £3788. Declined: James Butt, Kaiapoi, £3916 ; F. Denham, Christchurch, £4199 j Thomas and Hill, Christchurch, £4241 ; Downes and Proctor, Dunedin, £4150. The railway men at Masterton struck for 8a per day, instead of 7s 6d. It is rumored that Mr Oliver, M.H.8., will join the Ministry. The Insurance Companies paid the amount due on the Imperial Opera House. There is no intention of re-building. P. 0. Toxward has been appointed by his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, Grand Master of the English Freemasons for the North Island. The dispensation conferring the degree, arrived by last mail. DUNEDIN, July 9.

An inquiry was hold this forenoon at Simpson’s store, Arthur street, by the City Coroner, into tho circumstances attending the death of Charles McKay, a new arrival, who was supposed to have committed suicide. Ho had been a jeweller in Edinburgh, of the firm of McKay and Cunningham. He there failed for £68,000 a few months ago, owing to the failure of the Glasgow bank, and paid 15s in the £. His chief creditors were his uncle and his father-in-law, and by their advice he came out here, they promising assistance if ho succeeded. Dr. Burns deposed that all he knew of the deceased was that ho formed one of the new arrivals who had been drinking hard since they came to the colony. When he called on deceased ho found from appearances that he was suffering from opium poison. Ho went to the druggist for the necessary appliances, and when he returned in five minutes tho breathing was nearly stopped,* and deceased almost dead. At the back of 1 the grate in his bedroom ho found the bottl* produced (a two-ounce bottle) with a few drops of laudanum still in it. Tho name on the cork is tho address of Duncan and Co., chemists, 16, Ashfield street, Glasgow. There was no trace in the room to show that he had taken laudanum otherwise than the bottle. A quarter of the quantity taken would in all probability have caused death. He could quite understand that Mr Simpson was deceived by tho appearance of the deceased. ' The jury returned a verdict of temporary insanity. Contain Baldwin, after fully considering the {fatter, has arrived at the conclusion that the cause of secular education would suffer in the forthcoming contest were Mr Beeves and he to stand, and, therefore, he has determined to withdraw. TIMAKU, July 9. Reports were about town to-day that a quantity of wreckage had been seen off tho north of the Orari river, but it is believed to be part of the brigantine Akbar, wrecked five or six miles north of Timaru on the 29th nit. Some weeks ago the Board of Education sent to Timaru school committee a list of applicants for the second mastership of Timaru school. The committee put on one side several highly-certificated men, and chose a young man belonging to Timaru. Tho Board sent back all applications for reconsideration, but the committee still refused to select any other candidate. To-day the Board resolved to virtually take the appointment in their own hands, and select the person whom they think best fitted for tfcc -post. The choice of the committee was so glaringly abeujrd that the Board could not uphold it on any consideration. The Timaru and other school committees in the district seam to devote their attention to find out in what way they can best work entirely in opposition to the Board.