NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1713, 16 August 1879, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND.

[EBB EBESB AGENOr.I WELLINGTON, August 16. FootballThe following arrangements have been made with regard to the Wellington football team which is going to play the Southern teams. The team leaves Wellington on the 22nd tni arrives in Christchurch on the 23rd, in time to see the match between Otago and Christchurch. The Wellington men will play Otago on the 25th and Christchurch on the 28th, and will return to Wellington on the 29th. The Native Crisis. A large reinforcement of the Armed Constabulary, along with an unusually large supply of stores and war material will be forwarded to the front in a few days. It is anticipated that this is a preparation to marching on Parihaka. Electoral. The Liberal Reform Association has decided to submit to a full meeting of the association the action of the committee in bilnging forward Messrs Hutchison and Fisher as candidate* of the association, in order that the whole body of the association may either endorse their choice of candidates or nominate others. In regard to the Maori prisoners, a committee of chiefs has been nominated, who 1 a 7O taken legal a ivice as to the course to be pursued. The committee consuls of WiTakao, Wi Parata, Honi Nahe, Major Kemp, and four others of lesser note, and these have decided to lay the following case before the whole of the tribes interested in confiscated lands throughout New Zealand. They will send it out in the form of a manifesto that the Natives will resort to no acts of violence in the assertion of their claims, but will leave everything in abeyance presumably on condition that the Government wi'l take no further action re the surveys or occupation for the present. Respecting the confiscated lands, the committee, through their lawyers, are preparing an Act to enable a test c?se to be brought before the Supreme Court of Appeal, and then, if there are any questions which tbit Court will decline the responsibility of finally settling, the matter wi'l be sent before ter Majesty the Queen in Council assembled, where the whole question wi'l bo gone into ard finally deposed of. WANGANUI, August 16. Electoral. An enthusiastic meeting of Sir W. Fox’s supporters was held at the Wanganui Institute last night. The hall was crowded, and an influential working committee of eighty members was appo'ntcd. The committee sat till after midnight planning the campaign. Mr Joyce has issued an independent address, but the fact of his running with Mr Billance will probablp costh’m bis election.

[pEOM OtTE OWN COEBHBPONDENT.] DUNEDIN, August 16. The decision in re Benares is adjourned to Wednesday. It is rumoured that there is a dispute with tho assessors about the remuneration, and that hence the delay. Electoral. Mr Davie does not intend to stand for the city. Efforts are being made to bring Mr Bradshaw out in tho Grey interest, BALCLUTHA, August 16. Railway Accident and Loss of Life. A 4.30 yesterday afternoon a goods train, consisting of an engine and seven trucks, ran off the line a mile beyond Haipsku. The engine fell over on its side with one truck bo low and another above it, one truck being thrown on tho opposite side of the line. John Chalmers, tho engine driver, was jammed upon the engine. He received severe internal injuries, and it is supposed that his back was broken. He was taken to Mr McColl’s house adjoining, where ho died this morning, at two o’clock. He leaves a wife and two children. Lawrence, the stoker, escaped without a scratch. A special train was sent from Dunedin with a doctor, over night, but ho arrived after the engine-driver’s death. Tho lino was cleared by five o’clock this morning.

AUCKLAND, August 15. A report that the Bank of New Zealand received advices of the subscription of twelve millions for the New Zealand five million loan is untrue, as there has not been time to attempt to float the loan, though there is not the slightest doubt it will be easily placed on good terms. „ _ . , At the Chamber of Commerce to-day, Mr Dargaville gave notice of the following motion : “ That the interests of the colony, and particularly of this provincial district, will not be served by throwing open our markets free to the products of other countries, while Now Zealand products of the same class are excluded from others.” The hearing of the charge against the master and mate of the ship Minister of Marine, of cruelty to a seaman, was continued to-day, and further adjourned. WELLINGTON, August 15. The Governor and Lady Robinson, with Captain Maxwell, of H.M.B. Emerald, leave for Nelson to-night by the Hinemoa. They return to Wellington on Monday. Mr Sheehan leaves in the .Hinemoa on Monday next. He will drive the first pile of the bridge at Napier on Tuesday. He then goes to Gisborne via Tauranga, and probably overland to the Thames.

Tenders will bo shortly called for the construction of two sections of the ThamesWaitato railway. The necessary papers are being prepared in tho Public Works Office, Charles Smith, mariner, Lyttelton, is naturalised.

Mr Joseph Beswick, 8.M., is appointed visiting justice for Lyttelton Gaol. Mr Darrell is taking his company to Auckland, and intends playing there a week previous to his departure for Sydney. A new corps, called tho Wellington Fusilier Guards, is being organised. A jockey named Mattison was brought up to-day on two chargee of larceny, one from the Melbourne, aid the other from Barrett’s Hotel. Tho robberies were committed some time since, and after their committal prisoner went overland to Napier, and on the way is supposed to have committed various robberies at small townships through which he passed, Mr George Eliott Barton, M.H.R., leaves by the outward San Francisco mail for San Francisco, where ho intends to go into business.

TIMARU, August 15,

The Timaru Gas Company have declared a dividend of 7J- per cent, for the past six months.

DUNEDIN, August 15. A clerk in tho Land Office, who has been absent from business for some days, was arrested this evening charged with forgery. It is believed that he has been also unlawfully pledging title deeds as security for money.

At the request of a number of citizens, Mr Stout will deliver an address in the Garrison Hall on Monday evening on “Thepresent political situation and political parties in New Zealand.”