NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2055, 24 September 1880, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND.

AUCKLAND, September 24* Short Weight. At the Police Court to-day, an information was laid against John Limb for selling bread of short weight at Kaipara. Volunteer ReviewArrangements for a grand volunteer review in the month of November are proceeding. The Thames, Waikato, Waiuku, Putekohe and Whangare: districts will send strong forces of volunteers. WELLINGTON, September 24. Breach of Auctioneer's ActProceedings are about to be taken against Kennedy, McDonald and Co. for breach of the Auctioneers Act in selling jewellery at b public auction between the hours of 8 and 10 last night. DUNEDIN, September 24. Death of a Native Prisoner. Piranga, aged sii*y, om of the Native prisoners, died in gaol last night from consumption. CommittalLee Guy is committed for trial. InquestThe verdict at the inquest on Mullins' body was that he committed suicide by strychnine, while temporarily insane. INVERCARGILL, September 24. Deferred Payment Settlers. The Waste Lands Board has informed the deferred payment settlers at Dipton that all in arrears must pay or vacite. The Beauties of Invercargill. The Borough Council has voted a sum to the proprietors of the Zealandia Exhibition for views of Invercargill. Harbor DuesThe Chamber of Commerce will meet to consider the desirability of asking the Bluff Harbor Board to reduce the port charges on wool and grain to the same as at Pott Chalmers. The Babbit NuisanceA settler states that phosphorised oats are not efficacious since the young grass has begun to spring. Where several large areas had been splinklsd with oats the rabbits left the poisoned grain untouched. DOBHAiI 6TBKET WESLEYAN CIIUECH. As will bp seen by advertisement in another column, a Sunday-school Anniversary will be held at the above church of Sunday and Tuesday, the 2Cth and 2Sth instants. On the Sunday there will be three service*, and oe the Tuesday a tea meeting in the schoolroom. AUCKLAND, September 23. Racing. The racehorses Libeller and Piaoatoriuß left for Napier by the Rotomahana. Mr Walters, their owner, was also a passenger for Napier. Masonic. A number of gentlemen belonging to the Masonic brotherhood have left for Russell to take part in tbo consecration of the Northern Light Lodge, E.O. A Dear and Nasty PassageWm. Young, a stowaway on board the Rotomahana from Sydney, was fined £5 or a month’s imprisonment. Used upGeorge Henry Shepperson, the man lately before the magistrate as having three wives, went last night to Or.ehunga, where his third wife lives. He demanded admitfanceaud was refused. She fled cut of the back door as he burst the front one in, and informed the police. On their arrival they found the doors fastened up, but on gaining an entrance they found Shepperson on the floor with his throat partly out. The wounds were stitched up by a doctor, and Shepperson was sent to the hospital. He says that he is weary of life, and does not want to live. He kept a diary, which is in the hands of the police. In it he states that his two first wins were spiritual, ana the third veiled ia the flesh but faulty.

GRAHAMSTOWN, September 23. Mining. A messenger from Te Aroha reports that rich gold has been found by a prospecting party. A Tiialfor Wi chcnfcHo trial of a Native named Pukeroa for •opposed witchcraft, by a council of the tribes ■of this district, resulted in accused being allowed his liberty without molestation in future. The publicans were ordered to close their bars during the sitting of the Council. It was anticipated that ho would be killed, being accused of causing the death of the great chief To Moananui some years ago. WELLINGTON, September 23. A Serious ChargeSerious charges of ill-treating a prisoner has been made against two constables. A sailmaker named Edmonds states that on Saturday night in stepping off the footpath he fell and broke his leg. The constables complained of came np and ordered him to move on. He informed them of his condition, but they did not head it. They seized him and proceeded to drag him to the depot. Edmonds alleges that he was dragged the whole distance to the lock-up, for he could not use hie leg, and was placed in a cell and given a rug to sleep upon. He wag loft there till between seven and eight next morning, when he was sent in a vehicle to the hospital. He says that no explanation was given as to the conduct of the constables on the previous night nor as to what led them to ultimately convey him to the hospital. Ho says that he was perfectly sober at the time. The constables state that Edmonds was very drunk when locked up, and that on his complaining of his leg being broken they examined the limb, but saw no traces of injury. A strict enquiry wi'l be held. New Zealand University. The following appointments appear in the “ Gazette —The Right Rev, William Garden Oowie, D.D ; Sir George Maurice O’Borke, Knight, 8.A., and Charles Christopher Bowen to be Fellows of the University of New Zealand, vice Hugh Carle ton, Esq., Hie Honor Mr Justice Richmond, and the Rev. Thos. Buddie. GREYMOUTH, September 23. Greymouth. Harbor. A public meeting was held last evening in the Volunteer Hall, to urge upon the Government the necessity of more expeditiously proceeding with the harbor works. The folio wing resolutions were carried unanimously:— “That, in the opinion of this meeting, the Greymouth harbor worts are not being carried on with such vigourand expedition as their importance demands that they should be ; this meeting would therefore respectfully urge upon the Government the absolute necessity of immediately proceeding with the construction of the harbour works with greater vigour consistent with efficiency.” “ That, in the opinion of this meeting, it is advisable that the works should bo carried out by contracts so far as the raising and tipping of stone upon the training wall is concerned.” O AMARU, September 23. A Returning Officer at FaultAt tho Resident Magistrate’s Court tho returning officer for one of the borough wards was sued to-day for not accepting the nomination of a candidate at the recent election of councillors. The grounds of the objection were that Ihe qualification of the candidate was not of the umal value of £23. Since then it has been discovered that this qualification had been withdrawn by Act of Parliament, and the defendant was fined Is and 5a costs. DUNEDIN, September 23. Penny Banks-To-day Mbs Daly and Miss Dalrymple, on behalf of Mr Dalrymple, of Pors Chalmers, waited on (he Hin. Mr Dick to ask his interposition with the Premier to give, at his earliest convenience, his pr< raised consideration of the desirability of having placed on the syllabus of education the conducting of a Penny Bank in every public school, as a practical means of cultivating habits of thrift among the young people of the colony. The Hon. Mr Dick promised to bring tho matter before the Cabinet. Mining Share MarketThe mining share market is very active just now, particularly in Reefton and Macetown shares.

Ifeoh ornt own cobbksjondbht.] WELLINGTON, September 23. Ministerial Movements. Mr Bryce returned last night by coach and Major Atkinson returned to-day by tho Hinemoa from Taranaki. The Hinemoa returns to Taranaki to be in readiness to convey to Lyttelton the Maori prisoners who are tried to-day. Tho Premier leaves for the South to morrow to take a brief holiday, and will probably return on Sunday week. Executive CouncilA meeting of the Executive Council was held at Government House this afternoon, the Acting-Governor presiding. The business was chiefly relative to matters of formal routine. News from the FrontThe news from the Constabulary camp today is only that the customary farce of pretending to fence was duly gone through by fifty-four Natives, who decamped with even more than the usual celerity when the Constabulary appeared.