NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2051, 20 September 1880, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND.

[FROM OUE OWN COBBEaPONDENT.J KAIAPOI, September 20. Accident to an EngineI ocomotive F 75, attached to the morning passenger train from Christchurch, met with a mishap at Southbrook through the steam regulator dropping down. Another engine was telegraphed for. The train was an hour and twenty-four minutes late at Kaiapoi. FireA house belonging to Mr F. Busch of Rangiora was destroyed by fire at 2 a.m. this morning. The inmates had hardly time to escape. The house was worth £2OO, and furnituro and effects oyer £SOO. It was uninsured.

[PEBBS ASSOCIATION. I AUCKLAND, September 20. Protest A meeting of the Ngaruawahia on Saturday protested against the withdrawal of the suburban lands from sale. St- Mary’s Orphanage. Dr. Skae has visited St. Mary’s Orphanage, at Ponsonby, in company with Mr Tole, M.H.R, in order to report to Government. Government Officials. The heads of the Government departments here have received circulars to report as to the ages, length of service, &c., of officials. The Unemployed. A procession of unemployed in Queen street is proceeding. The San Francisco MailThe San Francisco mail steamer passed Waiwera at 12.50 p.m. She will arrive here at three. WELLINGTON, September 20. Toll, Toll the EeU. The Lynch Family of Bellringers, after a successful season in the Wanganui district, arrived in town on Saturday and leave today for Christchurch, whence, after a short season, they will proceed to the West Coast. DUNEDIN, September 20. Fire. A four-roomed cottago at the Maori Kaik, belonging to John Robinson, has been burned down. The loss is £2OO. It is uninsured. AUCKLAND, September 19. The Unemployed. The unemployed have declined the City Council’s offer of stone breaking at 4a 2d per yai d. Inquest. At the inquest on the body of Richard Goldin a verdict of “Accidental death” was returned. Presentation. Mr R. A. Lusher, late officer in charge of the telegraph station hero was presented tonight with a handsome clock and an illuminated address by the members of his late staff. The Drama in Trouble. Edward Hart, better known as the leading member of Hart’s Operetta Company, was charged at the Police Court this morning with committing a violent assault upon a young man named Russell by knocking him down with a bottle. The evidence showed that defendant on the previous night was engaged bea'ing his wife, and she ran out of the room and fell into the arms of Haygarth. An altercation ensued between the landlord of the hotel and Hart, when the latter showing fight plaintiff came forward to protect boni face. He received a violent blow from a bottle of sherry, which Hart had. Hart was under the influence of liquor. Ho denied beating his wife, but said that he was administering chastisement to his daughter ; that Haygarth had insulted his wife, and that Russell was drunk and insolent. The mai : »- trate sentenced Hart to a month’s imprisonment. PALMERSTON NORTH, September 19. Gold Prospecting* Mr Henderson, who was selected by the townspeople to accompany Moss, the prospeotor for gold, to Fitzhorbert, returned last night, and reports that the reef said to bo discovered by Moss is a hoax. Henderson, however, picked up in a gully large lumps of rich quartz, with gold plainly discerui-bia all through. Although no definite reef hi s been

discovered there is no doubt that gold is in the vicinity. Several parties have left town to try their luck prospecting Mr Henderson says that the whole features of the country warrant the assumption that gold will b« found, all through the -anges. NAPIER, September 19. A Sigular Claim. A claimant has arisen to a number of valuable sections in Hastings street in the person of the Hon, P. S. Solomon, tho lately appointed Acting Attorney General for Fiji. It appears that years ago Mr Solomon, who was afterwards practising as a solicitor at Sydney, bought those sections, and gave power of attorney to Mr Chas. Davis to act for him, but it is alleged that tho power of attorney gave no authority to sell. Mr Davis did sell the sections, and they subsequently passed through many hands, and are now in possession of Mrs Adamson, Messrs Eyes, J. Mouteith, H. Monteith, G. Williams, and 3. Scott. The Bank of New Zealand is acting for Mr Solomon, and Mr Lascelles has been instructed to take proceedings to recover the property. Sporting. Entries for the Selling Hurdles, 2 soys. ; Maiden Plate, 3 sovs. ; and sweeps for Hawke’s Bay Guineas, 5 sovs ; Spring Handicap, 2 sovs. ; Flying Handicap, 3 bovs. ; at the Jockey Club Spring Meeting, close on Tuesday. WELLINGTON, September IS. The Wakatipn. The Wakatipu, which leaves for Sydney this afternoon, takes sixty-thres ealoon and 160 steerage passengers. September 19. FireA fire broke out at 10.45 last night in a stable owned by Messrs Hill Bros., brickmakers, which, along with a portion of the brick shed, was completely destroyed. One horse in the stable was burnt to death. It is not known how the fire originated, but incendiarism is suspected, as the stable has been on fira on two or three occasions There was no insurance.