NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1741, 18 September 1879, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND.

[PKB PRESS AGENCY. I AUCKLAND, September 18. Rose Osborne was married this morning to D. E. Brewster, late purser of the City of Sydney, mail steamer, Mr Chaplin gave away the bride. The e.B, Pretty Jane has been sold to a Melbourne firm, for the inter-island trade. NELSON, September 18. Volunteer News. At a meeting of volunteer officers held last night, it wag resolved that a uniform dress be adopted throughout the rifle volunteer force of the colony, and that the color be scarlet. WELLINGTON, September 18. The Suicide Mania. Mary Smith, who attempted suicide in the harbor yesterday, was examined, found to be of unsound mind, and sent to the Lunatic Asylum. About one this morning Mary Corbett was hauled out of the water, apparently having tried to drown herself in the harbor. The Loftus Troupe. Owing to severe strictures having been passed on the immorality of last night’s performance of the Loftus Taoupc, it was given out from the stage last night that to-night’s performance would be the last, and ladies or children would not be admitted. Signs of the Times. Prom 1856 to the present time, 1809 writs have been issued from the Supreme Court. Of these 508 were sent out since the commencement of the present year. Government Officials and the ElectionsThe facts regarding Captain Hewitt’s dismissal are as follows:—Ho received a letter from the Government, informing him that he was dismissed from the service, but assigning no reason whatever. Subsequently, however, he received another letter, ashing him if ha was agreeable that the previous one should be considered as not having been sent or placed upon record. Mr Lapcott, of tie Insurance Department, also received a similar notification, but he showed that he had taken no part in the elections, not even voting. HOKITIKA, September 18.

The brigantine August, from Kaipara, with a cargo of timber for the harbor works, while being towed in on this morning’s tide, grounded on the South Spit. She is expected to get oft to-morrow.

AUCKLAND, September 17. William Stanton, a seaman on board the Onward, was sentenced to seven days for assault on the captain. At the City Council to-day the surveyor was instructed to prepare estimates of the cost of the erection of public baths. The Premier telegraphed, in reply to Mr Tole, that the subsidies to local bodies are due next month, and will be paid as soon as possible.

At Helonsville, a man, named Moore, was drowned last night, in Awaroa Creek, close to Clark’s Staff Hotel. Jas. Clark heard a splash and alarmed ,several people, who ran but found no trace of anyone. Tho body was found early this morning near where Moore is supposed to have fallen in. He had been drinking for some time past. WELLINGTON, September 17. A well-dressed respectable looking young woman, giving the name of Mary Smith, hired a waterman this afternoon to take her out in the harbor. After being out some little time she said to the waterman, ‘‘Good bye,” and jumped overboard. Ho managed to drag her out of the wafer into the boat, and brought her ashore. She is now in the hands of the polio*. George Brighting,[a hawker, was brought up to-day for stealing £ls from tho house of Mrs Myers, at the Upper Hutt. It appears that witness saw the prosecutrix take some money out of a tin box to pay for some articles sold, and watching his time until the woman was out, he entered the house and robbed the box of its contents. Tho prisoner was committed for trial.

It was reported last night that Captain Hewitt, late commander in H.M. Navy, had been dismissed from the Government service for taking an active part in a recent local election. It appears that tho real facts are that Mr Hewitt was formally reported upon for his action regarding the election, hut there has been no result, and it is understood there will not be any. The Workingmen’s Rights League has resolved—“ That a deputation be appointed to wait on tho Government and request them to set aside suitable blocks of land for settlement, and to urge upon the Government tho necessity for selling the land on reasonable terms, as this is the beet way of promoting the settlement of the country.” The Government having suggested to the Kaiwarra volunteers the advisibility of adopting a uniform dress, as was being done in England, it was resolved —“That the company would gladly adopt tho suggestion, but did not feel justified in incurring the expense, having just fitted themselves out at a large cost with tho grey uniform of Government pattern. If, however, the Government contemplated supplying the now uniform free of expense, they would be glad to accept it.” One of the Maori prisoners of a Taranaki tribe, a nephew ef Wiremu Katene, died of lung disease early this morning at the Native hostelry at Thorndon. The deceased had, by request of the medical officer, been released from custody on nominal bail, and was to have been sent to his home at Taranaki ; but his illness increased to such an extent as to render it impossible to remove him. Certain photographs of an indecent nature were exposed to view yesterday in a shop in the city until the police peremptorily interfered. Legal proceedings are to bo taken in tho matter. A telegram received in town to-day from Groymouth, states that the steamer Chas. Edward, which went ashore there some little time back, has not yet been floated. She has received considerable damage. DUNEDIN, September 17. The City Council held a special meeting today re unemployed agitation. It was resolved to start certain city improvements, which would employ sixty or seventy men. Mr Blair, Engineer-in-Chief of the Middle Island, wrote, stating that he would open another length of tho Otago central railway, sufficient to absorb all the available labor.