NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1702, 4 August 1879, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND.

[FBOM OTTB OWK COBBESPONDENT.] TIJIA.EU, August 4. Judge Ward made an order thia mornirig directing the prosecution of Cbarlaß Wfllkdcn Wood for fraudulent insolvency. Wood absconded lately, was brought back from Wellington, and is now in custody. [PISJI FBBSS AGENCY.] Electoral. Mr Seymour Thome George -will not offer himself for re-election for Hokitika. He has received a requisition from Rodney and Marsden, and will elect to stand for one or the other.

War Material for Patea. WELLINGTON, August 4. In a day or two the Government will eh d five hundred Blands of arms and twenty thousand rounds of ammunition to Patea. DUNEDIN, Augusts Cummock pleaded guilty of embezzlement. Sentence is deferred. Judge Johnston almost suggcstod.the abandonment of the arson charge which is now proceeding, and it is oeiLain that the result will be an acquittal. The Land Tax Court for the suburbs Bat to-day. In nearly every caae the appeals were dismissed.

MA3TERTON, August 4.

Messrs Bunny, Beetham, and Charles Pharazyn have made a preliminary canvas. All will work work the election on different platforms. Mr Bunny will support the Ministry, but not Sir G. Grey. Mr Beetham will support his own party.. Mr Pharazyn will give a modified support to the Opposition. Mr C. R. Carter is expected to arrive daily from Sydney. It is thought probable he will be a pur.e Grey candidate. Electoral BLENHEIM, August 4. Mr Seymour holds a meeting of his friends this afternoon, to ascertain his chance. Mr Henderson announces that he stands in the Liberal interest, and advocates manhood suffrage, with residence regis! rition, a triennial Parliament, land laws calculated to secure settlement in small estates, the adjustment of taxation by an Income Tax, small incomes being exempt, education free and secular.

AUCKLAND, August 3,

Mr Moss telegraphs that he will positively be a candidate for Parnell. It is expected that he will be returned unopposed. Mr Buckland is spoken of as a candidate with Mr Hobbs for Franklyn, in the anti-Greyite interest.

The North Island Association is fully formed, on the basis of watching over North Island interests, irrespective of party, and to elicit expressions of public opinion on important questions. NAPIER, AugUßt 3. A poll of the ratepayers of the Borough of Napier was taken on Friday on the question of bringing into operation the Public Libraries Act. The result was 151 for it, and 215 against.

WELLINGTON, August 3.

The following telegram from the seeretaiy to the Exhibitisn commission, Sydney, was received by Dr. Hector: —" Entries for sheep show must' be in the hands of the secretary by the 30th August, as the opening of the show is fixed for the 30tb September. Sheep coming from other colonies must be in Sydney twenty-one days before the opening, so as to be under the supervision of the chief inspector of stock, but in charge of their own attendants."

Mr Smith, of Dunedin, is to be retained aleng with Br. Buller for the Maori prisoners. Seven hundred pounds has been subsoribed to fee counsel for the defence.

Mr Yesey Stewart is endeavouring to secure a block of land of about 50,000 acres near Tauranga, to be settled partly by colonials and partly by importations, to form a special settlement. The general impression is that he will be unsuccessful.

TIMAEF, August 3. The two men missing from Bollesby station has been traced to a deep ravine half filled with snow, wherein a large number of dead sheep were found, some with their throats cut. It is supposed that Smith and Morrison were engaged trying to extricate the sheep higher up the ravin«, when an avalanche came down burying them. It will be several months before the snow will be melted and further search made.

OAMABU, August 2. An inquest took place to-day on the bodies of Patrick Markham and Paul Fitzpatrick, killed by a fall of earth in the twenty-eighth chain tunnel on the Oamaru Waterworks. A verdict of " Accidental death " was roturned.

DTJKBDIN, August 2. The adjourned inquiry into the grounding of the Benares took place to-day, before Mr Watt, B.M. Captain Macdonald, master of the tug Koputai, was the only witness examined. The inquiry was further adjourned till Friday next. The first batch of Maori prisoners, forty* six in number, arrived in Duuedin this morning, the 'armed constabulary accompanying them. They do not look anything like so grand as our own constables. The funeral of Mr Peter Thomson, an old press man, took place to-day, and was attended by about one hundred gentlemen, mostly connected with the press.