NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1769, 21 October 1879, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND.

PEB PBESS AGENCY. The San Francisco Mail. AUCKLAND, October 21. The City of New York, from San Francisoo, is signalled. Obituary. The Captain Carey who died on board the Rotomahana is not the Captain Carey of the Rotorua, but was the well-known master of the Star of the South while she was trading in Fijian water, and then of the brigantine Ethel and the barque Glencoe. He left the latter vessel to take charge of a Victorian barque loading for India, and had made one trip, and came on to Auckland by steamer to visit his family before going to sea again. He left here by the Rotomahana to join his ship, and was apparently in good health, but on Friday he succumbed to an attack of heart disease. Captain Carey leaves behind a widow and two children. The Licensed Victuallers. WELLINGTON, October 21.

The Licensed Victuallers committee have drawn up a report on the Bills of Messrs Saunders and Acton Adams. The principal suggestions are that licenses throughout the colony should be £lO when the house is opened to eleven, and £SO when to twelve o'clock. Publicans should only keep lights till hour of closing. Clubs should pay hotel licenses. Thero should be different classes of licenses for town and country, for hotels, accommodation houses, and ferry places. The clause re supplying liquors to travellers should be reduced from five to three miles. On the question of the renewal of licenses, the committee objected to the right of females to vote, suggesting that the franchise should be extended only to those upon the ratepayers'roll. The report suggests the establishment of a Licensed Victuallers Association, and a yearly meeting of delegates of the trade from all parts of the colony. With regard to the fund within their own body, which it was reckoned would give £2OOO a year, half of this it was proposed to spend in the purchase of plant. It was also recommended to establish a widows and orphans fnnd. It was recommended that there should be a mutual interchange monthly of the names of persons who availed themselves of the tippling Act to " stick up " drinks to an unlimited extent, this list to be called " the black list."

—— Land SalesINVEROARGILL, October 21. At the Government land sale held yesterday by Mr H. E. Osborne, sections in the township of Calcium, realised from £3 to £4 per acre, and sections in the Invercargill hundred, sold on deferred payments, fetched over £lO per acre. A Hospital Sunday. The collections for the Hospital mado last Sunday at all the churches, including those at the Bluff and Wallaoetown, realised £125 7s Id. [.FROM OUB OWN CORRESPONDENT. J A Divorce Case. DUNEDIN, October 21. The divorce case of White v White and McLelland was dismissed, owing to the unpreparedness of the petitioner to proceed. The Octagon Fire. At the Fire Brigade annual dinner, Captain Murphy made strong remark on the Press for its comments on tho Octagon fire without inquiring into the facts. Mr G. W. ElHott, who was foremau of the Waters jury, replying to the toast of the Insurance agents, said that everybody had been blamed but the right person. Tho jury were unanimously of opinion that tho evidence did not justify them in sending a man to the gallows. AUCKLAND, October 20. The Licensed Victuallers to-day considered Mr Adams' Licensing Bill, and woro much pleased with it, except the bottle licensing. The Minister of Marine CaseAt a publio meeting to-night, the Mayor in the chair, a resolution censuring the Grand Jury for throwing out the bill in the case of alleged cruelty against the captain and mate of the Minister of Marine was adopted. A resolution was also adopted, asking for a commission to enquire into the whole circumstances. The meeting was very disorderly, and speakers on the unpopular Bide were refused the right of being heard, and were hissed off the platform. WELLINGTON, October 20. The Cook Straits CableThe cable repairing steamer Agnes left this evening. She will commence dragging tomorrow at daylight. The Huia. The Huia, going into Tory Channel on her way from Wellington to Picton, last Saturday, touched the rocks twice, being driven off her course, as the captain believes, by a strong current catching her bow. She was found to be making a little water aft, but the amount of leakage was so trifling that the Customs authorities permitted her to make the return passage to Wellington. A report will be made to the Marine Department and an official inquiry held into the circumstances. Football. The Bugby Union players held a meeting to-night, at which a resolution was passed that a Rugby Union Club should be formed, and other clubs in the province be invited to join, and they to co-operate with clubs in other provinces with the object of being affiliated with the Rugby Union in England, as has already been done in other instances. Ganger v- Contractor. In the case Farrell v O'Malley, the damages given were £250. Plaintiff, Joseph Farrell, was employed by defendant as a ganger in blasting operations at Kai Warea, and whilst he was engaged in superintending the workmen, an accident occurred on the 28th February, 1879, through which the plaintiff lost the use of one eye, besides suffering other serious injuiies to his face and limbs. The plaintiff claimed £2OOO damages on the ground of the defendant's negligence in providing weapons and materials. It was particularly charged against the contractor that the tamping irons employed in driving home the blasting powder were of naked iron, and not covered with copper as they should have been, and that sparks were struck in consequence. TIMARU, October 20. Attempt to Upset a Train. Edward Jeffreys was committed for trial to>day for wilfully attempting to upset a train at Normanby on Wednesday last. The James CaseAt the Resident Magistrate's Court to-day, H. D. Manning, a publican at Pleasant Point, was charged with aiding and abetting one Edward James, now under arrest at Wellington, to forgo the name of another person named Edward James, believed to be dead, to a transfer of 100 acres of land near Timaru. The case was remanded till Monday next, and bail allowed. DUNEDIN, October 20. In the Supreme Court to-day (before Mr Justice Williams and a special jury), the case Logan v Mackay was heard. This was an action to recover the sum of £SOO alleged to have been lent by plaintiff to defendant, who pleaded a simple denial that it was so lent. Mr Stout appeared for the plaintiff; Mr Macassey, with him Mr Haggitt, for the defendant. Plaintiff is a miner, and the dispute is in connection with the Kartigi contract. A verdict for plaintiff was returned.