NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1694, 25 July 1879, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND.

[pee peebs agency.] Parliamentaiy. WELLINGTON, July 25, 3 p.m. The House has adjourned for half an hour. Papers for an Imprest Supply of £300,000 are being pre£ red. Both sides agree to pass the Supply. | The division is expected to take place to - n : ght. jThe Opposition whips count on a majority of six. About eleven o’clock last night live wires cn the Auckland lines went down suddenly and all Press work was interrupted for the remainder of the night.

PATE A, July 25.

The Native Crisis.

About fifty Natives are now fencing on the other side of the Waingongoro. Titokowaru is not amongst them, he having gone with others to bring timber in for building purposes. The Natives are very reticent. They state that they are doing this to annoy tho Government, aud that the object of it has nothing to do with themselves, but with Te Whiti, who, they say, will settle all with the Government. They have every confidence in Te Whiti, and are apparently more infatuated than ever.

[PEOir OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.! DUNEDIN, July 25. Three insolvencies have hem filed this week, the principal one being that of William Nichol, of Balclutha, watchmaker. Liabilities, £llO9 ; assets, £BO4.

Five informations for sly grog selling are to be heard at the City Police Court tomorrow.

The proprietor of the two-headed baby was charged on five informations with exhibiting the same without a license.

Barnard, remanded to Kaiapoi, to appear :here on August let, admits hia identity.

PATE A, July 2-4. Titokowavu and twenty Natives, who commenced fencing yesterday, have not yet been arrested. Titokowaru states that be is acting under the instructions of Te Whiti and Tohu. He says several other parties will fence shortly. The settlers fear this state of things will not end till it is settled by force at Parihaka.

WELLINGTON, July 24. Tim Hutt Maoris brought a cart load of provisions to their imprisoned count.ymon. Several Scandinavians in the Upper Hutt were out shooting last Wednesday week, and were caught in a snowstorm. They became benumbed, and lay helpless for two days ; their matches and powder being wet. At last they were found by a search party, much exhausted and frostbitten. They had been in the bush a week, and had lived during the interval on the pigeons previously killed.

Mr Travers, juu., made a complaint that a cummons taken out a week ago had not been served. The magistrate said tho system of summonees was rotten from one end of the colony to the other. Ho hoped it would shortly bo altered. Tho formation of a well-equipped prospecting party to prospect Wainul-o mata and Hut districts is being advocated. DUNEDIN, July 24. A petition praying the Government to remove the railway headquarters from Christchurch to Dunedin is being prepared by tho Dunedin Chamber of Commerce.

The extension of the Green Island railway will bo opened on August let.

[fbom oub own cobbespondknt.'l DUNEDIN, July 24. People In Dunedin are indignant at the proposed public meeting in Wellington. If the Wellingtonians are so injudicious as to allow illegitimate pressure to be brought to bosr on Parliament, it is threatened that an effort will be made to remove the seat of Government to some other city.