NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1900, 27 March 1880, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND.

[PBESS ASSOCIATION. J GKAHAMSTOWN, March 27. Volunteer Review. About 800 men will be present at the Eatter Monday Review, The Waikato Cavalry, 150 Btrong, arrived this afternoon, and the Auckland Artillery will come this evening. The town is fairly decorated, and a grand pyrotechnic display will take place tonight. The visitors will he entertained at a ball by the citizens and at a banquet by the Volunteer officers. WESTPOBT, March 27. Westport Colliery Company's Coal. Two truck loads of Westport Colliery Company's coal were brought to town on Thursday. WELLINGTON, March 27. The Mabel Jane. Some wreckage reported by the Maoris as being in Barnes' Bay has been identified by the Marine Department as part of the Mabel Jane, wrecked in West Wanganui in 1878. New Caledonian Convicts. The Governor has received a cable message from the Governor of New South Wales, stating that her Majesty's ambassador at Paris has been instructed to urge the French Gsvernment to prohibit assiitanoe being given to liberated convicts in emigrating from New Caledonia to the Australian colonies. DUNEDIN, March 27. The Cumberland street Murder. A pair of trousers, identified as having been worn by Butler the night before the Cumberland street murders, have been found near the Northern Cemetery, and ore said to be stained with blood. Cricket. The Wanderers are playing the Dunedin Club. Four of the Christchurch players are out for 50, Secretan making 27. AUCKLAND, March 25. The Orakei Parliament. At the Oiakei Parliament to-day, about five hundred Natives were present, including the representatives of Tawhiao and Te Wheoro. A resolution was passed affirming that the Government had broken the Treaty of Waitangi by the removal of the seat of Government from Auckland, and praying for its restoration. More Communists. The schooner Sovereign of the Seas is now twenty days out from New Caledonia, with twenty-five Communists. HAWEBA, March 25. Very Satisfactory. Mr Stevens' horses, impounded on the Waimate Plains by the Natives, have been released. KUMABA, March 26. Accident. A serious accident occurred this afternoon, through the king bolt of a hearse coming out and the horses bolting. The hearse was returning from a funeral, and four children were riding on it. They and the driver were all seriously injured and cut. WELLINGTON, March 25.

'An Unlucky Man. The man Amoor, who was killed to-day while working in the hard labor gang, was under sentence of twelve months, passed in October, for larceny from a store. His conduct in gaol had been exemplary, and he had sent in a special petition for a remission of his sentence, which the Chief Justice had forwarded to the Government, with his approval endorsed. A pardon would probably have been granted in a few days. Ministerial. The Premier and Native Minister returned today after & very rough journey. Mr Bryce is very unwell. Fatal Accident. A man named William Noble was drowned in the Wainuioru river, near Masterton, while attempting to cross on Wednesday. The FloodsCoach traffic has been resumed between Foxton and Wellington. All but one obstruction have been removed on the Masterton railway, and trains met the passengers transferring from one to the other. Macfarlaae v- Eees. A rule absolute has been granted for a new trial of the case of Macfarlane v Bees. Tha Tramway. The Wellington tramway has been sold to Mr B. W. Mills, ironmonger, for £19,250. "Gazette" Notices.

The following notices appear in the "Gazette:" —The Mount Ccok road district is included in the agricultural districts, Schedule B. Canterbury Trespass of Cattle Ordinance 1872 ; fresh regulations under the Diseased Cattle Act; Alexander F. Blood, to be clerk of the Supreme Court, Ohristchurch; Henry Toungman, to be receiver of the land tax of the County of Cheviot; F. "W. Francis, to be sub-Lieutenant in the Christchurch City Guards ; M. Studholme, to be a member of the Timaru Harbor Board. The Civil Service Examination Board intimate that an offer having been made of a sum of £5 per annum for five years to provide for prizes for the best essays on the principles and practice of parliamentary Government and cognate subjects, the Board announco that the subject for the present year Bhall be " the development of constitutional liberty in England," the competition to be open to all persons under the age of twenty-five years at this date, who have passed either the junior or senior civil service examition, and who are in the civil service at the time of competition. INVERCARGILL, March 26. Native Land Purchase Commission. The Native Land Purchase Commission has been sitting at Riverton during tho past two days. They heard evidence regarding tho Muruhuku block purchase by Mr Mantell some time since for £IOOO. Natives allege that it had been sold without their consent for a paltry sum, and that certain conditions had not been fulfilled. The commission meets at Christchurch on April 2nd. [FBOH OtTH OWN COBEBHPOSBBNT.] PATEA, March 26. The Native Commission. The Commissioners have been sitting here since Wednesday afternoon, and the town is full of Maori?, who are more numerous in attendance than at any sitting yet. The principal witness, so far, has been the old chief Taurau, who, with a lot of his tribe, was captured and imprisoned at Dunedin. He is mush respected by the surrounding settlors,

and it is generally admitted that he has been the most unfortunate of all the rebellious Maoris, as he has undergone the ignominy of imprisonment and is now without an acre of land he can call his own, though he ha* been promised oyer and over again that land would be given him, and the old fellow has documentary evidenoe of this. It appears that when hs took part in the rebellion he did so against his own wish and judgment, but strong power at the baok of Titokowaru forced Taurau'stribe into hostilities, and the old chief did not like to abandon his people. The Commissioners are not likely to finish here beforeMonday, after which they will probably go to Wanganui. Kimball BentKimball Bent has been staying for the last week or so at Taurau's village, four mile* above here, and during his stay has visited the town. He has since gone to Taipouheuai, above Hawera, which is his regular place of abode. The Weather.' The late heavy weather in the South did not prevail here to any great extent, and at New Plymouth it was not felt very much, but at Inglewood and Stratford there was a good deal of wet. Patea Bar Harbour. The result of the Harbor Board's work here is astonishing. The members of the Native Commission went as far as the Heads to-day, and it was a surprise to those who remembered the old days when horses and cattle crossed near the mouth at low water, to see a current running like a mill race, scouring the sand with a hundred dredge power, and a bar with fourteen to sixteen feet of water on it at full tide. The river channel is considerably deeper, and is running in a different direction to what it did eighteen months ago. The remains of the Egmont are lying under the bluff, about 150 or 200 yards from the present workshop where the river channel ran formerly. There can be no question as the beneficial nature of the work. The bed of the river is not only deepened for miles up but all the little oreeks running into it have also had their channels deepened. Further, the Maoris at the Native settlement of Okaitere, seven miles up the river by water, say that they can no longer get fresh water as they could until lately out of the river. The scour caused by the harbor works is enabling the tide to run np much further. If Sir John Coode's plans are carried out Patea bar will show twenty feet of water at high tide.