NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2056, 25 September 1880, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND.

AUCKLAND, September 25. The UnemployedTen of the unemployed have applied to the Council for stone-breaking. A Lively Meeting. The New Zealand Prudential Assurance Society held a special meeting last night. The meeting adopted a resolution for levying 50 per cent, upon the present contributors, extending over six months, in order to liquidate outside claims. The meeting was very lively. Some shareholders advocated prosecuting Mr Mackune. In the course of the discussion, it transpired that the old cashbook before the society was resuscitated was stolen. Several members expressed their regret at being connected with the society. ■WELLINGTON, September 25. Bieach of Auctioneers’ Act. Macdonald, the auctioneer, continued his sals of jewellery last, night, and the police have laid a second information for breach of the Auctioneers’ Act. The cases will be heard on Tuesday. 111-treating a PrisonerThe public enquiry into the charges of illtreating a prisoner by the constables will be held on Wednesday morning, before the Magistrate. The VolunteersAt a meeting of tUlcers of the volunteer corps it was decided to hold a review on the racecourse on the Prince of Wales’ birthday. A letter was received from the town clerk, asking for the co-operation of the volunteers in receiving Sir Arthur Gordon. The Suicide ManiaJohn Watson, lamplighser, in the employ of the corporation, attempted suicide this morning, taking 2£~zs. of laudanum. The dcso was too strong, and acted as an emetic. Watson is out of danger. DUNEDIN, September 25. Fires-

A small store and dwelling-house on the Anderson Bay road was burned down last night. By the fire at Samson's pit, Green Island, several miners have been thrown out of employment. The fire was caused by the subsidence of the bottom strata, which engendered heat, and subsequently caused ignition. A Screw LooseAt a special meeting of the Colonial Clothing Company yesterday, it was decided to wind it up voluntarily, and a committee was appointed to investigate the circumstances under which the late secretary had produced the credit balance sheet, when it was since proved there was at the lime a debit balance of £SCO. INVERCARGILL, Saptemb.r 25. Poor Fellows. An advertisement, calling a meeting to arrange for burning Mr Oliver, the Minister, and Mr Conyers, the Commissioner, in efiigy, appears in the local papers. Don’t Believe in HimThe Southland brunch of Ihe New Zealand Institute refused to jrin in the congratulations to Darwin on the coming of age of the “ Origin of Species.” The Time Tables. The memorial, asking for a return (o the August time table for the Southland railway, was despatched this morn ng. AUCKLAND, September 24. Railway Employes. The railway employes have resolved, as a firot step towards obtaining equitable treatment, to petition tbs Commissioner of Railways for the North Island to be placed on an equal scalo of pay with the Southern men. AccidentBy the fall of the fate of an embankment near Newmarket railway station, a new

arrival named Walter Garrick had bis left leg fractured in two places. ■Wine-Growing 1 in New Zealand “Mr J. M. Dargavdln and Mr Laroher, tho leader of a party of French vignerons, have been visiting places in the Northern Wairoa, where the former owns land supposed to be suitable for vineyards. Mr Laroher has •elected a place called Dohoatua, twenty miles above Dargaville Township. Ho expresses satisfaction with tho land in unqualified terms. He says Upper Wairoa river greatly resembles parts of the Rhine, and he appears sanguine of success. The Constabulary. Orders have been received for the constabulary at Kihikihi to proceed to Taranaki. Thames District Matters. A deputation, consisting of the Thames Mayor and the chairman of the Thames County Council, waited on Mr Whitaker, Attorney-General, with reference to Thames district matters. They desired to ask the Government through him to expend the £16,000 already voted for tho Thames line in bringing the railway from Hamilton to Riverhead. They also considered that as £75,000 was voted last session for the unemployed, some portion of their share might be expended in providing for the unemployed at the Thames. Mr Whitaker said that he would refer tho first matter to tho Minister for Public Works; as to the second, the £73,000 was voted to save any peop'e in the colony from starving. It was not a sum for carrying on work of any particular description. The whole of it would probably not be expended, only a portion, and perhaps none of it would be spent.

NEW PLYMOUTH, September 24. The Maori PrisonersMr Halse, counsel for the-Maori prisoners, will appeal to the Supreme Court on four points raised at the trial - (1) That the indictment was bad, from the uncertainty of the description of the locality. (2) That the West Coast Settlement Act, 1880, is ultra vires. (3) That no plan of the highway notified by tho Governor under the Act was deposited in the Survey office, and that the District Court had no jurisdiction to try an offence when punishment may be a life one. WELLINGTON, September 24. Sale of Waimate PlainsThe “Post ” says :—At a Cabinet meeting it has been decided to throw open for settlement blocks round Okaiwa, Waimate Plains. The terms and conditions on which the settlement will be open for sale on the Ist of November next,Jit Carlyle and Hawora, are as follows :—The land is classed under three schedules, the prices being respectively £lO, £6, and £5 per acre. The land specified in the first schedule will be sold for cash, and the lands enumerated in the second and third schedules, on deferred payments, subject to the provisions relating to suburban rural land of part 3 of the Land Act, 1877, and to the provisions of of section 9 of tho Land Act. 1877, Amendment Act, 1879. No person will bo allewed to acquire more than one section upon either immediate or deferred payments. If there should be more than one application for any village allotments offered for casb, the said allotments will be put up to auolion among the applicants, and if there should be more than one application for any small farm allotment offered, right to occupy the allotment will be determined by lot among the applicants only.

111-treatment of a Prisoner. The town clerk haa written to the Chief Commissioner of Police, calling on him to ir sti tuto an inquiry into the alleged ill-treatment of a prisoner by two constables. Resignation. Capt. Moorhouse has resigned command of the Wellington artillery. The Premier. The Premier loft for South by the Taiaroa this afternoon. TIM ABU, September 24. AccidentsA lad named Macintosh, while playing with his schoolfellows at Waiiti school to-day, had his leg broken io two places. A child, about three years old, had his thigh badly fractured at Pareora to-day by a bag of wheat falling on him. A man named Barry slipped over a bank at Sandie Town last night and broke his leg. OAMABU, September 24. RacingAt a meeting of the committee of the Oamara Jockey Club to-night, it was decided that, as the Bakanui people had fixed their races for Boxing Day, the date previously selected for the first day of the Oamaru Spring meeting, the dates of the latter should be altered to the 9ch and 10th of December. The first day’s programme will comprise a Maiden Plate of 30 sovs, a County Plate of 23 sovs, Oamaru Handicap of 100 sovs, Publicans’ Handicap of 40 sovs, &o. ; while on the second day there will be a Handicap Hurdle of 40 sovs, a Selling Hurdle of 20 sovs, a Novel Eace of 30 sovs, a Plying Handicap of 50 sovs, a County Handicap of 30 sovs, and a Consolation of 20 sovs. DDNKDIN, September 24.

Otago Harbor. At a meeting of the Harbor Board to-day, the engineer’s report was adopted, and it was resolved to leave with him the main responsibility of carrying out the work of completing tho channel with the means at the Board’s command. [fhom otte own cobeespondeht.] WELLINGTON, September 24, The Native Fencers-Forty-six Natives camo down to-day to fence across tho Constabulary road opposite Parihaka. Only about a dozen were men, the remainder being mere boys. They were turned off as usual. The Government have caused Te Whiti and Tohu to bo informed of the result of yesterday’s trial of Maori fencers who were sentenced to two years’ imprisonment. This completely disposes of Te Whiti’s prophecy that the Natives never would be tried or sentenced. It is intended to arrest all adults in next batch of fencers he sends down after receiving the notice, and it is thought this will bo the last act of the fencing farce. If boys are sent they will simply be ducked or birched and sent homo again. Cape Egmont LighthousesThe new lighthouse at Caps Egmont is being so constructed as not only to be impregnable to all attacks unless artillery is employed, but also to form a very strong defensive work as tho base of military operations on the West Coast, should this ever bo required, a purpose for which its commanding situation particularly fits it. The Lincolnshire Farmers. It is understood that the agent appointed by Messrs Grant and Foster on behalf of tho Lincolnshire farmers is Captain bteele of Hamilton, in the Waikato district. [PBOM A COBBBBPONDENT.] WELLINGTON, September 24. Mining NewsMr J. E Campbell, of Cambridge, sent tho following telegram to-day to Mr Sheehan : “ It is stated that heavy gold has been struck at Te Aroha. I believe the report to be correct."