NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1770, 22 October 1879, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND.

[Pee Peess Agency.} WELLINGTON, October 22. Local Industries* The Local Industries Association are setting vigorously to work. They will obtain the views of kindred bodies in Christchurch, Dunedin, and Auckland as to the desirability of asking Parliament for a Royal Commission to enquire into the working of the-tariff with a view to its alteration in favor of the promotion of local industries. A public meeting of the unemployed is called. Exposing Goods Outside Slops. The City Inspector is making raids on shopkeepers exposing goods for sale outside their windows and dcors. The Huia. The Huia broke two keel plates when she struck in Tory Channel. On inquiry, it was shown that the spring tide made her bump on a sunken rock while going half-speed. New Immigrants. The Zealandia immigrants are a fine-look-ing lot. Hospital Patients. Out of seventy.four oases in the Hospital) thirty-three ought to be provided for by benevolent societies outside that institution. They are simply placed in the Hospital because there is no other place to put them in. PATEA, October 22. Dreadful Mortality at Parihaka. Several Natives passed through Paten yesterday on their return from Parihaka. They state that upwards of seventy Natives have already expired through the fever now raging there, and that as many more are prostrated, and are dying at the rate of two and three per day. The confidence they have in Ta Whiti has, in despite of this great mortality, apparently not been shaken, as they are as emphatic as ever that Te Whiti will bring them to life again. HAWERA, October 21. The Parihaka Meeting. Nothing important took place at the monthly Parihaka meeting. Te Whiti still says there will be no fighting. Many are sick and dying there. The constabulary are in complete readiness to march on the plains at anv moment. NEW PLYMOUTH. October 21. The steamer Hannah Mokau, from Manokan, is on the North Spit of the Mokau. She has been due at Waitara for several days. WELLINGTON, October 21. The date for receiving competitive designs for the Post and Telegraph Buildings, Wellington, is extended from 31st instant to 4th prox. The Cook Straits CableThe Agnes has put back to Worser's Bay, the weather in the Straits being too rough for picking up the cable.