NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1690, 21 July 1879, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND.

LFKOM OUR OTTN CCBBESrONDBNT.] ASHBURTON, July 21. A heavy fall of btiow was experienced yesterday, followed by a hard frost last night. Ritualistic Difficulties. A petition has been got up to the Rev. W. E. Paige, Episcopalian clergyman, by his congregation, asking him to remove the g'lfc cross erected over the communion table. Mr Paige last evening preached a sermon defending his conduct, on the ground that the cross had been put there three years ago when the church was opened. A Cheerfrl Traveller. Henry Wilh'amson, a passenger from Timaru by the express on Saturday, was fined £5 this morning for threatening to cut a Chinaman's head off and to slit his nose with a pocket knife, and £2 for making game of the ra -I way [ticket collector and creating, a disturbance. WELLINGTON, July 21. The Loan Bill. Tbere ; - not a word of truth ;n the statement that Sir W. Fix hf p .'anged with Mr Mac;ndrew to piss the Loan B"l at once if now Bent down. No arrangement whateve- has been made by S' • W. Fox with Mr Macoudrew about that Bs'l, nor bag any been asked for ; on the contra/ the Opposisilion know Si* 1 G-eorge G-rey too we'" to grant e7en ai Imprest Supply, except from hand to mouth. NEW PLYMOUTH, Jr'y 21. Wreck of tlie Arthur Wakefield. The schooner /"tbur Wakefield, from Ljfctelton to New Plymouth, laden \.lth- gi.: : n, founde . 1 off Opunake on Saturday evening, at 8 30. The crew escaped in a boat, wb'ch floated off the vessel's deck. They had neither food or water and were only pa:iirlly clothed. Being afraid of the natives, they pulled t) New Plymouth and arrived be*e after twenty-four hours of privation andrrl, on a stormy sea, at 8.30 If :t r : ght. The boat was upset in the surf, but all he ids ere OAMARU, July 21. Sport'usr. The runr'ig for the President's Cup took place to-day, but veiy J'ttle interest was taken in the proceedings, there being only about fo.ty persons present. The Wowing fe the :—Patch beat W r 'drake, Hock beat Came 1 !*, Gazelle beat Speculation, Gyp beat Ringleiider, Queen Bee ran a bye, Verbena beat Referee, Kathleen beat Wrangler. [PEE PHBSS AGfctfOY.] WELLINGTON, July 21. Political. The Opposition have decid. 1 not to reply to any speeches except those made by Minutes. It ?» iinderslood that the Government party do not intend to speak at any g.-eat length. Mr Sheohan speaks to-morrow, and Mr Wakefield replies to him. The "New Zealand er " says that there )'b ve.y I *ttle doubt but that a dissolution v. "1 be granted. An endeavor is being made to organ'se a Liberal party throughout tho colony. Probably iu open u'r uieet'ng wi'l be called ; i Wol'ington on Wednesday, wh'ch w"*l be addressed by S'r G. Grey. The Hinemoa in Difficulties. The Hinemoa had very heavy weather from Taranaki. Her bridge and aft steering gear were carried away, o.nd, after much d'fficr'ty, she anchored in Obau Bay, where sherrepaved' v ed her steering gear, which mi completely Bmaßhed. She brought eighteen Maori prisoners, fifteen from TaranaK and three from Opunake. It is feared that the Italian crew in the fishing boat which left the pilot station on Thursday is lost. NELSON, July 21. Ernest Dorant, a telegraphist, charged with stea'ing money from a brother operator, was asijuitlei in the District Cou u to-day. AUCKLAND, July 18. The Waikato settlers are holding meetings in support of resolutions carried at the Thames for tho Thames Valley railway. The city school committee have issued thirty notices warning parents that tha compulsory provisions of tho Act having been brought into operation, parents will be prosecuted for the non-attendance of their children at school. A lake has b;ea discovered at White Island, which contains a solution of hydrochloric acid, while a email stream which runß into it is strongly impregnated with sulphuric acid. Tho" Riccardi Opera Troupe, numbering twenty, leave per Ladybird for Dunedin, and will open at the Princess with " H.M.S. Pinafore." The company is composed mostly of Auckland amateurs. They played " Pinafore" in Auckland ten nights, the " Sorcerer" eight nights, and " Girofla" eight nights. WELLINGTON, July 19. The R/chard and Mary schsoner, coal laden, from Nelson to Forton, mistook Rangitikei for Poxton Bar, and ran ashore while effecting an entrance. She will have to be unloaded, when it is probable she will be got off. She is insured. About 250 nominations for immigrants for Wellington were sent by the outgoing San Francisco mail. Typhoid fever is reported in the Manawatu district. TIMARU, July 20. The result of the eettling on the late steeplechases is ps'follows :—Brittain £123, Osborne £52, Butler £57, Spillane £l9, Culling £3B. The consideration of the protest against Ada, the winner of tho Conßolation Race, was adiaurned till Thursday next. DUNEDIN, July 19. The " Tuapeka Times " says that Mr McPherson Scott, the schoolmaster discharged for falsifying his rolls, intends to commence actions against the secretary of the Olago Education Board, the " Morning Herald," the " Evening Star," the " Daily Times," and the " Otago Witness," for having published the correspondence in connection with his conviction. The Dunedin gaol now contains 12G inmates, viz , B 9 males, aud 27 females. Three youugsters were convicted at tho Police Court of stealing ducks. They were oach sentenced to six hours' imprisonment, and a dozen strokes with the birch rod. An inquest was held at tho Hospital to-day, on the body of Mark Fox, who was fatally injured at Messrs Gibba and Clayton's sawmills on Thursday. J. McOormhk' the engine-driver, deposed to a boy having rushed to his room and informed him that a lad was caught in the shaft. He ut once stopped the engine. H. Paine, aged

' fourteen, saw deceased hanging with bio hands to the shaft, holding something round. In an instant deceased was caught and whirled round, striking the joists with his feet. J. McGormick said deceased had wanted bim to come and see the fun. He placed a sack with sawdust on the shaft, round which it twisted, and was then thrown off, striking any person who stood near. Ho had only dissevered the trick that day, and had bean experimenting several times. Dr. Roberts described the injuries inflicted on deceased, whick were of a horrible character. Mr A. J. Gibbs stated that the room in which deceased was injured was partially underground. Neither deceased nor any other of the boys had any business there at the time the ace'dent occurred. The coroner said the accident was clearly the result of deceased's own carelessness or play, and that the ofßciP 1 s were not to blame. The jury returned a verdict that deceased's death was caused by his own carelessness. July 20. Captain McEinnon, of Fort Chalmers, who died on Thursday, received a Masonic funsrpl to-day. There was a large attendance of brethren, notwithstanding the heavy hail andsnow showers. IN9TSROARGILL, July 20. A heaiy fall of snow took place yesterday afternoon. Thjre is considerable excitement over the election of Mayor, and there will be a tight struggle between tha candidates, Messrs Bain and Goodwill.