NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1753, 2 October 1879, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND.

PEB PRESS AOBNOr. The Naval Brigade. WELLINGTON, October 2. The Naval Brigade intend to purchase a schooner for practice. The CropsThe acreage to be put under crop this year in the Wairarapa is much greater than last year. A New Idea. The tramway company is making arrangements to run a goods truck daily on the parcel delivery system. The Octagon Fire Case. DUNEDIN, October 2. The Crown Prosecutor has intimated that he will not call all his witnesses, so as to get the inquiry finished on Friday. Nothing new has been elicited. This morning there were some sharp passages between Mr Denniston and Mr Watt; the latter twice ordered the former to sit down.

GISBORNE, October 4. Mr Bees, solicitor, was charged at_ the Resident Magistrate’s Court with obtaining money under false pretences by means of valueless cheques. After occupying the Court some hours the case was dismissed.

[from oub own cobbespohdbnt]. Political. WELLINGTON, October 2. There is no longer any doubt about the result of the division. The inability of the Government to refute one of the many grave charges that have been brought against them has confirmed all waverings, and forty-five is the smallest number likely to be recorded against the Government. The Opposition wish to divide, but the Government want to get up Mr Lundon, whom they have not yet dared to put in his seat, and want him to vote, before anything can bo said of his antecedents or the circumstances by which he has reached the house. Mr J. O. Brown, in his zsal for the Government, has this meming shot at a pigeon and killed a crow. He says that in 1872 the “ Vogel-cum-Hall Government offered me anything I chose to take for my vote.” Unfortunately for Mr Brown this Vogel-oum-Hall Government was also the Vogel- cum- Reeves- cum - Gisborne Government, so that if there wcs the slightest chance of anyone believing Mr J. 0. Brown’s statement, they must at once condemn hie friends and present patrons, Messrs Reeves and Gisborne. WELLINGTON, October 1. The constabulary force now on the West Coast numbers nearly a thousand men. DUNEDIN, Octeber 1. The police charge against Waters still continues. The evidence is a repetition of that given at the coroner’s inquest. An inquest was held to day on the body of the woman Ellen Smith, who died in the Hospital on Sunday. The evidence showed that she lived apart from her husband, and on going to him for her allowance he kicked her, but not very severely. The Rotomabana brought Bishop Neville and family. They were cordially received on arriving in Dunedin, A man named Johnson, who attempted to commit suicide by jumping into the bay last night, was sentenced to seven days’ imprisonment to-day for being drunk and disorderly at the railway station. George Oapstick, trustee in a bankrupt estate, who was arrested yesterday on a writ of attachment, was released to-day, he having filed his schedule.