NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1816, 16 December 1879, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND.

pFBOM OUB OWN COBBESPONDENT.] AMBEELEY, December 16. SportingThe Amberley raoes are postponed till tomorrow or next fine day.

[Pbess Association.] WELLINGTON, December 16. ParliamentaryEirly this morning the House went into supply and passed the remainder of the Public Works Estimates, striking out only one item, namely, £9OO in aid ot the building fund of the Thames Orphanage. GRAHAMSTOWN, December 16. The Big Pump. The Thames County Council offered at auction to-day a part of the big pump security given them by the Government as an endowment. The property consisted of two winding engines, ropes, boilers, and buildings. Mr M'Cullough, tho Mayor, protested against the sale on behalf of the borough and the community, as it was evidently the intention of the Government to make it an endowment for the whole community. £IOO, its value as iron was the only legitimate offer. »nd the reserve being £SOO, the property was withdrawn. Mining Hews. The mining excitement is abating very much. Waste Land Settlement. The Waste Lands Board have set out blocks of land for settlement under the new land Act. There is a meeting to-night of the Land Association. AUCKLAND, Dacember 15. The telegraph cable for the river Wairoa has been successfully laid. Treaty with Tonga. Tho schooner Caledonia, from the Islands, brings intelligence of a new treaty of friendship between Tonga and Great Britain. GRAHAMSTOWN, December 15. Inquest. An inquest was held before Dr. Kilgour on the late fire in Pollen street. The verdict was that it originated accidentally. NEW PLYMOUTH, December 15. Native Prisoners in Dunedin. A letter his been received by Natives here from the prisoners in Dunedin, giving_ a description of prison lifo. The writer complains that the food is insufficient, that the climate is very cold, and that confinement is exceedingly irksome to the free-born Maori. The letter also states that John Hough, a half-caste, has been placed in solitary confinement for instigating the Maoris to refuse to work. DUNEDIN, December 15. A Heverend Committed for TrialArthur Greaves was charged at tho city Court this morning with forging the name of Archdeacon Edwards to a promissory note. He arrived from home in the Hermione recently, acting as chaplain on the voyage, and preached at All Saints Church here on the 7th. His credentials profess to be signed by the Bishop of Carlisle. But it is said that he was inhibited from preaching before leaving for this colony. In conducting his defence to-day he made some extraordinary statements, and endeavored to make out that he was ignorant as to the nature of tho promissory note, the subject of the charge. After his committal Archdeacon Edwards suggested that he should be medically examined as to his sanity. Obituary. A painfully sudden death occurred in town early this morning. Mr Gilkinson, who arrived from Glasgow a couple of months ago with the intention of settling in this district, retired to rest at about tho usual hour, but was shortly afterwards seized with a paralytic stroke, and expired at four this morning. The deceased, who was about sixty years of age, leaves a large family. Prior to the collapse of the Glasgow Bank, which affected his commercial pssition most disastrously, Mr Gilkinson occupied a leading position in Glasgow, having been senior baillie of that town.