NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1698, 30 July 1879, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND.

[yeoh oub own ooeeesfondent.] DUNEDIN, July 30. The Glasgow Relief Fund. The Mayor to-day forwarded to the Lord Provost a draft for £3OO as Otago’s contributions to the Glasgow Relief Fund. [PBESS AGENCY.] WELLINGTON, July 30. Gleich the Adelaide defaulter, has tried to recover the money and jewellery taken from him when arrested. The case is remanded for a week. John Roberts, who has been ill for some months in consequence of having attempted to cut his throat, is likely to recover. New moorings are being laid down at Kaikoura, The Taiaroa crossed the bar at Auckland at 5.40 yesterday, with the Frisco mails for the South. The Zealandia sails for Sydney to-night, at 10 o’clock. Distress in Wellington. A great many cases of destitution in the city are reported, owing to the want of suitable employment, and voluntary contributions to the Benevolent Society are inadequate to meet ,the emergency, and are unusually small. AUCKLAND, July 29. Lord Loftus, the new Governor of New South Wales, was a passenger to Sydney by the mail steamer. The Simonsen troupe of fourteen, and the Williamson’s were also aboard, both go Sydney. A meeting of Mr MoMinn’s former election committee is being held in Waikato, to consider their future action. An influential meeting in Auckland resolved to form a political association, to be called the “ North Auckland Association.” Mr Chaplin and Miss Rose.Oaborne left for Wanganui in the Rangatira, after a successful season at Auckland and the Thames. HAWBRA, July 29. Last Sunday a member of the constabulary named Jekyell deserted from Waihi, stealing a settler’s horse and saddle, with the intention of going to Parihaka, but was arrested on Monday morning at Opunako by means of a telegram. The Maoris are still on the other side of the river, making a pah and fencing in land. NEW PLYMOUTH, July 29. Eight more ploughmen were taken this morning on Mr TurnbuT's farm, at Huirangi. Mr Turnbull, with his neighbors, succeeded in hindering the ploughing, so the Maoris came last night with spades and mattocks and hacked up the land. They were brought before the Court, and pleaded that Te Whiti and Tohu ordered them to do it. They received the same sentence as the others. All the prisoners wore sent on board the Hinemoa at noon. Over seventy Maoris intend to plough the racecourse soon. KUMARA, July 29. A fresh rush set in to Quinn’s Terrace this afternoon. A large number of miners are on the ground, but no definite results have been obtained at present. TIMARU, July 20. A man named Lawrie met with a serious accident to-day. Ho with four others was working at a pile-driving machine on the beach, and when the monkey fell the handle of the winch struck him on the head, inflicting a nasty wound. He now lies in a precarious state. At the inquest on Andrew Macgowan, killed yesterday at the Landing Service, a verdict of ‘‘Accidental Death” was returned. No trace has yet been found of the two men missing in McKenzie Country. David Owers, lately a storekeeper in Timaru, was charged at the R.M. Court today with fraudulent bankruptcy, and remanded. DUNEDIN, July 29. A shocking accident occurred on the Southern railway this afternoon, a woman having been killed by the train near the railway bridge at Henley. The woman appeared to be middle-aged. One of her legs was severed from the body, and the body carried a distance of nearly a chain. The body was conveyed to the Dunedin Hospital, where an inquest will be held. By a fire at Mount Pleasant, near Caversham, this afternoon, a house was destroyed, owned by Henry Kipp. It was insured in the New Zealand office for £240.

The City Council to-day voted £IOO towards an experiment with Ashbury’s system of heating and vertilating buildings.