NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1937, 10 May 1880, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND.

[PEB P 8363 ASSOCIATION. ] NAPIER, May 10. ShippingThe Adamant sailed on Sunday with a cargo of wool and tallow, valued at £55,812. A Satisfactory Removal. Great satisfaction is expressed by the ' Wairoa settlers at the removal of Mr Ebonezer Baker, B.M. The petition for his reinstatement is poorly signed. A Collisioni As Mr Seymour Tancred, son of Sir Thos. Tancred, was driving a buggy and pair into i town on Saturday, he was run into by a Maori . on horseback. The collision broke the car- , riage pole, and the horses bolted. One of [ them broke his leg, and had to be shot. The i occupants of the carriage were uninjured. Obituary- , News has been received of Mr James i Macassey’s death in Adelaide. > WELLINGTON, May 10. Exchange of Magistrates--5 Mr Mansford, 8.M., who has been seriously indisposed for some time past, is about to 1 leave Wellington. Arrangements have been ' concluded for an exchange with Mr Shaw, the present District Judge and Resident 1 Magistrate at New Plymouth, and Mr Shaw ! is expected to be in Wellington in a fortnight’s time. The exchange between Mr Mansfield and Mr Shaw is for three or four 1 months, at the end of which time it is 1 probable that other arrangements will be 1 made. Obituary. i Mr J. M. Taylor, a well-known commission agent and old settler, died on Saturday, at the age of 63. | Windy WellingtonA strong N.W. gale is blowing. No i damage has been done beyond that one or two , yachts have been driven ashore. ; DUNEDIN, May 18. ’ Suicide- ; Walter H. Burton, photographer, of George , street, committed suicide this morning by i taking chemicals. Ho had been drinking heavily of late. AUCKLAND, May 8. Evading the CustomsMrs Sarah Bostock, who was fined £IOO yesterday for breach of tho Customs regulations, was unable to pay the fine, and was r; moved to Mount Eden Gaol to undergo the alternative of six weeks’ imprisonment. Rumoured land SaleThe “ Waikato Times ” says that it is rumored that Mr Eirth has sold 5000 acres at Matamata at £6 an acre. Civil Service Commission. The Civil Service Commission have examined the heads of all the important departments. They leave for Nelson on Tuesday by the Hawes, and will remain at Nelson until the following Monday. They go then to Blenheim, where they remain for three days, and then proceed to Wellington. Pound Drowned. The body of a man belonging to H M S. Cormorant was found floating in the harbor. He had been missing, and was supposed to have deserted. Savage Attack. Mr Rule, Under-Traffic Manager of the Railway Department, was assailed at a late hour on the Beach road, Mechanics’ Bay, and badly maltreated. The Pleuro-pneumonia-The settlers at Waikato are greatly incensed at the slaughter of cattle suspected of pleuropneumonia, but which, on examination in several cases, have proved healthy. A deputation from Wanganui waited on the Colonial Secretary in reference to an application made by certain districts in the South Island to the effect that the whole of the North Island might be proclaimed an infected cattle district, and tho removal of cattle from tho North to the South Island wholly prohibited an account of the outbreak of pleuro-pneu-monia in Auckland. The deputation repreaonted the hardship and unfairness of ihe course which the Government had been urged to take in its effect upon Wanganui, which was fully 300 miles distant from the locality where the disease had appeared, and moreover had a large trade in stock with the West Coast of the South Island, which would be destroyed by the prohibition asked for. Mr Dick said that the Government had no power to take such an extreme course as that against which tho deputatica had protested, and certainly had no idea of adopting any measures of eo oppressive a nature. Los i of the Whittington. Private advices received yesterday state that the barque Whittington, which loft Philadelphia fur England on December Bth, has been lost with all hands. She was loaded with grain, and it is conjectured that she was caughtt in a hurricane and foundered, owing to the shifting of bar cargo. Oapt. Webster, who had command of her, was during the period from 1872 to 1876 in tho employ of Messrs John Brogdcn and Sons of this city. MARTON, May 8. ■ The Rangitikei Election- , The result of the Rangitikei election is— 1 Sir Wrn. Fox, 232 ; Mr D. Fraser, 123 ; Mr Lvoa, 60. 1 BLENHEIM, May 8. j Mining News- < Workings on the new diggings are at present 1 confined to the bed of the creek. There are I about sixty men working there, all of whom * have taken up claims, but are much troubled with largo boulders in tho creek of such a size that they cannot be removed. About five claims are paying well. One of them ob j tained 14cz. in the course of a morning about s fortnight ago. On the other hand, there am i a great many more claims in which men are t

barely making a living. Mr Morgan, who prospected the creek, has been out prospecting between the present diggings and Wakwnarina for the last month, and returned last week without having been able to find any payable ground in his travels. [PBOM OT7B OWN COKBESPONDBNT.] WELLINGTON, May 8. The Agent-General. The Government received several despatches from the Agent-General by the San Francisco mail, but they chiefly referred to matters of official and business routine. 3J-Z. Loans The latest advices regarding New Zealand securities report them still high in favor, especially the last loan. It appears that the actual price for which £IOO in converted 4 per cents, was obtained under the inscription arrangement was £Bl sa, so that as the Canadian 4 par cents, were then worth £95 10a, it is not surprising that the last loan was so readily floated with the special advantage attached to it. The original nvestors have made a profit of 12 to 15 per cent. Cabinet Council. A Cabinet Council was held this afternoon, but only routine business was transacted. The TreasurerMajor Atkinson returns to Wellington by the Hinomoa on Monday night. Ho io much better.