NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1689, 19 July 1879, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND.

[pes peess agency.] WELLINGTON,'[JuIy 19. Political. The following is an extract from the Premier's letter to Major Richmond re the Speakership :—" I will recollect old times and your services to the State in days gone by. This, however, is a case in which one cannot give way to mere personal feelings, however strong these may be. There is a necessity in such an appointment to give assurance to the public that the Q-overament intend to carry measures of a certain character, and to secure, if possible, existing laws to which they stand pledged, from being repealed or in any way altered, so that their force on main characteristics might be destroyed. In fact this is a case in which public interest alone must be consulted, and I am in fact but a trustee of those interests, and must make my own feelings give way to them. Acting upon these principles I fear that the chose of President must fall upon another person than yourself." The Sydney Exhibition. Dr. Hector has received a telegram from Sydney stating that there is no authority for the statement in the New Zealand papers that the Exhibition will not open before the Ist of October. It is impossible at present to fix the date, but probably it will be towards the end of September. The New Zealand Secretary leaves per Wakatipu on tho 31st, with the bulk of the oxhibits for Sydney. The statement that the G-overmr, under present circumstances, will not press his objections to an assent to a Loan Bill before the address in reply is agreed to, turns out to be entirely incorrect. PATE A, July 19. Nothing of any importance transpired at the Parihaka monthly meeting. There was merely a repetition of Te Whiti's unintelligible rubbish. He signifies that the ploughing will be deferred till after tho prisoners' trial. He says they will return in triumph, like the Israelites from Babylon, with a Government agent to interview him (Te Whiti). On the confiscated land question he says that he will allow no fighting, and avers that Whakawera has been taught how to act with tho Government at Wellington, ire .likens him to a race-horse arriving at the winning-post. The Ifative Crisis. HAWERA, July 19. It is stated here that the constabulary at Opunake baked the bread for tho Parihaka meeting, the flour and wood being supplied by the Natives. It is said that the Maoris will finish the paddock at Opunake, and that then the ploughing will cease. Others say that there will be no more ploughing, but that Te Whiti will wait and see what will bo done by Parliament.

KUMARA, July 19. largest meeting ever held in the district took place last night at Dillman's Town re the new county question and the deviation of the railway. Resolutions affirming both objects were carried with only two dissenting voices. Mr Stanhope's report, and ancther one in the " West Coast Times," re the expenditure in the district, were characterised ej false. It was stated that the paper is <oiducted by county officials, and is thoroughly unreliable.

NGARUAWAHIA, July 18. To-day five tons of coal fell on a miner called Joseph McGuire, at the Huntley Goal M hob, and crushed him to death.

fFEOSt OUB COBEESrONDBNT.] The Political Ploughmen. NEW PLYMOUTH, July 19. The fifteen Oakarua ploughmen were put on board the Hinemoa to he taken to Wellington at noon this day. Their demeanour was quiet. WANGANUI, July 18. Kereopa, the notorious ruffian from Wuitotara, who some little time ago threatened the settlers that if they came on to a certain piece of land he would serve them in the samo way as Hiroki served McLean, was brought before the magistrate. The case lasted two days. He was committed for trial at the Supreme Court, Wanganui, bail being allowed, himself in £IOOO and two sureties of £IOOO. No bail was forthcoming, and ho was sent to gaol. TIMARU, July 18. At the Police Court to-day Thomas Griffin was committed for trial for robbing Alexander McAualand of Oamaru of walch and chain. The theft was committed in the Club Hotel while prosecutor was asleep on the sofa. I DUNEDIN, July 18. Captain Alexander McKinnon, an old ro-i- | dent of Port Chalmers, was found dead this morning in tho grounds attached to his residence. When returning home last night he must have fallen and stunned himself, and owing to the coldnes3 of the night perished where he fell. Mr Andrew Todd, of Taieri, one of tho oldest and most respected residents of tho Plain, died this morning. From the beginning of the year to this dato the Cromwell Company's mine hs6 yielded 47103Z9. from 3103 tons etone. Signor Morley will produco an amateur opera next week at the Queen's Theatre. The Taieri Derby Ploughing Match at MoEgicl to-day was very successful. There were twenty-seven entries. In tho Supreme Court to-day tho case of Benjamin Jeff cry v J. B. Lucks was hoard. This was an action to recover the sum of £7OO far damngo and trespass. Under tho first count defendant was charged with trespassing on land leased and held by plaintiff. The second count charged him with conversion of certp.in fruit and goods ; and the third count with having made distraint for rent, and in retaining possession of goods distrained upon afte; 1 tender of the amount duo for rent and expanses. Tho jury answered tho issues in favor of plaintiff, assessing tho damages at £l5O.