NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1707, 9 August 1879, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND.

EBOM OUB OTTN COEBESFONDENT.] Electoral. TIMARTJ, August 9. Judgo Ward will probably be a candidate for Timaru at the coming general election. The names of Messrs Wakefield and Belfield are mentioned. A requisition is being got up to Judge Waid.

[PBB PEBSB AGENCY.] WELLINGTON, August 9. " Antonio Maticl a i an It wes m'esed about three weeks ago, and, as he had a watch and some money on him, many suspected foul play. His body was found on the beach this morning, and the watch and money were in the pockets. The Hinemoa leaves at rine to-night. The National Bank. A telegram was received from London yesterday announcing that at the annual meeting of the National Bank of Now Zealand, held this week, a dividend of 6 per cent, was declared, and ton thousand pounds was placed to the reserve fund. The Maori Prisoners. A repoit was circvTated yesterday that four Maori prisoners had been nearly poisoned accidentally. The repoit originated lrom tho fact of several Maoris in good health * "king some medicine, which was intended for some Maoris who were sick. Court House for Sydenham. Mr Richardson has asked the Government whether it w ill make provision far the erection of a building for the purposes of a Magist'i jX ','& Court-houae within the Borough of Sydenham. In reply, the Minister stated that a sum world be placed on the estimates for the purpose. WELLINGTON, August 8. It is understood the House will give the clerku, messengers, &c, who have come specially to Wellington for the session, halfpay during the recess. The Patea leaves for Patea this evening with 500 stand of arms, and fifty cases ammunition. Another candidate for the city talked of is Mr O. Johnston, son of the Hon. John Johnston. W. Smith got tr-ee months' hard labor for stealing money and jewellery from the Commercial Hotel. The Rev. J. C. Andrew, late M.H.8., writes that he has ascertained that the Premier is rated as follows : —Kawau, 5269* acres, capital value £21,470; improvements, £19,200; net value, £2907. Four Maoris, who are suffering from complaints since arrival here, had a narrow escape from poisoning yesterday. The doctor administered some strong medicine, and shortly afterwards symptoms of poisoning set in. She doctor was recalled, and after dosing them with emetics they became better. Mr Robert Cooper, lately prosecuted for a breaoh of the Arms Act, announces that he will contest the East Coast election.

DUNEDIN, August 8. It trill hardly be credited that the largest weekly payment doled out to any of the families of the unfortunate miner* who wereki'led, is 30s for a family of eight, and that a good many of the children hare got so low in the articles of their wardrobe that they are actually unable to sufficiently protect themselves against the wet and cold. The official inquiry into the stranding of the Benares was continued this morning, at the Land Board Office, before Mr Watt, 8.M., and Captains Thomson (Harbor-master at the Bluff), and Briscoe, and Pilot Paton'a evidence occupied the whole of the sitting. There are about a dozen witnesses yet to be produced by the Grown.