NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1927, 28 April 1880, Page 2

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[>BB PBBSS ASSOCIATION.] AUCKLAND, April 28. Mr Burns. Mr Burns, member of the Industrial Commission, has arrived. Railway ReclamationEleven tenders have been received for the railway reclamation contract. Mounting a Fresh Horse. Mounted Constable Bullan goes home having inherited a considerable property. WELLINGTON, April 28. Sunday Trading. At the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning the proprietors or the Prince of Wales, the Tory, and the White Swan Hotels were fined £2 for Sunday trading. (INVERCARGILL, April 28. Diabolical Attempt. On Monday a heap of stones was placed on the Otautau railway, at a point near Fairfax, where the down train would run over it. The obstruction was noticed in time. Scientific Literary Society. A Scientific Literary Society has been formed, promoted by Mr J. T. Thompson. The Waimate Plains. HAWERA, April 28. Mr Hursthonso, engineer in charge of the road works, has returned from exploring and cutting a track from Stratford to O pun ate along the foot of Mount Egmoct. He describes the country as very level, and the rivers easy to cross. The land is of very rich quality. The Constabulary at Oeo shift to-day, ten miles further north. The road works are now advancing rapidly towards completion, and all unnecessary clearing has been put a stop to. It is reported that the Constabulary at Werekino also advance to-day, a few miles south. AUCKLAND, April 27. Why not? Mr O. Wakefield, Under Secretary for Goldfields and Mines, has returned from a visit to the Kawakawa Coal Mine. Pleuro -pneumonia. At Waikato the slaughtering of cattle for pleuro-pneumonia is still going on. Mr Fantham’s pure-bred shorthorn bull Lord Darlington was killed cn suspicion. A post viortem showed that the animal was suffering from tuberculosis. Mr SpeightMr Speight addressed the electors to-night at the Mechanics’ Institute. He spoke for two hours and a half, and received a unanimous vote of thanks and confidence. WELLINGTON, April 27. The Wellington Masterton Railway. It has been finally decided that the Greytown section of the Wellington-Masterton railway shall bo opened on Mav 14th. OAMARU, April 27. The Harbour LoanThe £IOO,OOO loan of the Oamaru Harbor Board having been successfully floated, another wall to the northward of the present one will bo run out, and the harbor will be 1 dredged to a depth sufficient to admit of the 1 largest home vessels lying alongside tho break- 1 water. * Resignation of Mr HislopMr Hislop, M.H.R., announces his regig- i nation. A rumor is current that Mr W. L. : Bees, of Napier, will contest the seat. ,

DUNEDIN, April 27. Sudden DeathA woman named Esther Teague died very suddenly yesterday afternoon. She had been residing with a Mrs Atkinson, at the corner of Cargill and Scotland streets, and after par* talking of lunch went to her room to dress. Mrs Atkinson, not hearing her moving, looked into the room about a quarter of an hour later and found her lying dead on the floor. Her death was attributed to heart disease. [PROM OLE OWN CORRESPONDENT.]] WELLINGTON, April 27. Ministerial. The Hon. E. A. Whitaker, AttorneyGeneral, and the Native Minister, are expected to leave Auckland on Thursday, for Wellington, by the Himenoa, which is under orders to attend on them there. Major Atkinson returns towards the end of the present week. On the Ministry reassembling in Wellington, it is understood that the long-standing question of the appointment of an eighth minister will be definitely settled. The Coming SessionThe Government measures for the coming session are in course of active preparation ; some indeed are actually in type, and probably will be circulated at the very commencement of the session. No particulars have yet transpired, and various rumors on the subject which have been afloat are entirely unreliable, especially the wild guesses of the Opposition journals. The LoanThe Government have just received advices from the loan agents to the eSect that the powers given in connection with the five million loan, of converting five per cent, stock into four per cent, inscribed stock, in the proportion of £IOO to £l2O, are being largely taken advantage of by stockholders, £1,100,000 already having been converted under the Inscription Act. The loan continues to be remarkably popular, aud in England,especially, as trust funds can he invested in the inscribed stock, which is thoronghly marketable.