NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2064, 5 October 1880, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND.

[pbbss ASSOCIATION.] AUCKLAND, October 5, The Lincolnshire Farmers. Captain Steele, agent for Messrs Grant and Foster, offers 30s per acre for a block of 17,509 acres of land at Te Aroha. The Board offers to sell at 40s per acre, with conditions regarding residence and improvements. Captain Steele offers to introduce forty-five Lincolnshire farmers as an instalment, to follow with more. The Waste Land Board has fixed the high price owing] to the alleged auriferous character of the land. A compromise is probable. Educational. MrHislop, Under-Secretary for Education, is inspecting the schools. Conjugal FelicityNumerous cases of wife beating are coming up at the Police Court. Sentenced to Death. Joe, the New Hebrides Native, charged with wilful murder, pleaded “ Guilty ” at the Supreme Court this morning. Before the jury was empannolled Justice Biohmond explained, through the interpreter Thurston, brother of the Colonial Secretary of Fiji, that he could withdraw the plea if he liked when the jury was empanelled. When this was done the prisoner again pleaded “ Guilty,” making a statement to the effect that he was under the influence of drink, and that the Sankey boys had irritated him. He was sentenced to death. QBAHAMSTOWN, October 5, Prospecting. A number are out prospecting the Te Aroha district, but beyond finding some loose quartz, showing gold, nothing has been discovered. A Heavy Claim. The local bodies have claimed from the Government £22,000, said to have been paid to Natives illegally since the abolition of provinces, which was made by the Act payable to the local autoorities. A Happy ThoughtMr McCullough, editor of the “ Star,” offers a prize far the best plan of utilising the waste water from the pumps and water engines, &c., in the direction of improving the sanitary condition of the town. The Mayoralty. Colonel Fraser, late Warden, is candidate for the Mayoralty. Hospital Management. A petition has been forwarded to the Government, complaining of the Hospital management, and also of the manner, Ac., in which Dr. Skae made the late investigation. WELLINGTON, October 5. Mining. The Westport United Alpine Lyell amalgam was molted last night, and yielded 750 ounces of gold for a month’s work. DUNEDIN, October 5, The Maori Prisoners. Twenty-fivo of the Maori prisoners, including William King, the well-known chief, left this morning en route for Taranaki, where they will be liberated. INVERCARGILL. October 5. A RecommendationThe Committee of the Chamber of Commerce have decided to concur with the Christchurch Chamber in recommending that a general average of money be paid over to trustees instead of direct to the agents of wrecked vessels. Volunteering. Local Volunteer officers have received information to the effect that half the capitation grant will be paid, on the basis of six Government inspections and six company parados between April Ist and December 31st of the present year. AUCKLAND, October 4. Criminal Sessions. The Supremo Court Criminal Sittings opened this morning. Judge Richmond in his charge commented on tho smallness of the calendar, but remarked that it contained some heavy charges. Tho crime of murder by the New Hebrides native occupied the foreground. The murder was committed upon an utter stranger, and tho cause seemed to be an outburst of ferocity. Rarely was a New Zealand settler brought up charged with such a crime. Tho prisoners charged with this offence were generally a foreign or inferior race. Commenting on tho growth of larrikinism, he supposed that the principal cause was that boys were too early apprenticed. Demand for labor was so great that they obtained high wages, and there was lees home restraint than in England. When church and school powers fail to reach them, the only effectual means was to biiag them under the i penal code. He and the other Judges bad not resorted to this dread risk of intro-

duqing boys to associate* who would destroy their chances of reformation. The subject raised points in morals and religion that that was not the proper plaoe to discuss. George W. King, for selling arms to Natives was sentenced to one day’s imprisonment, as the Judge thought that the prisoner, being a new arrival, did not know the law respecting arms. W. Smith, for forgery, received five years. In the cases of A. Smith (rape), Obarles Raven (horse stealing), Elizabeth Harris and Cecilia. Carrol (larceny), sentences were deferred. Railway Employes. Twenty-six employes on the Auckland railways have agreed to leave the service and proceed to the Cape, unless their wishes regarding the adjustment of wages are complied with. The Samoan Islands. The Edith brings news to the 4th ultimo. Sir Arthur Gordon has issued a proclamation prohibiting Walter J. Hunt from being within the Samoan Islands for a period of two years, on the ground that his presence is dangerous to the peace and good order of the Western Pacific Islands. The prohibition was issued on the information of six persons. Several villages on Savie have been burnt by the contending factions, and news was received that the Tanamaitanga were burning right and left in Rena. Not content with destroying the properly of their opponents, the King party have committed great havoc on the properly of Mr Frank Cornwall, in and around Tasotootai. Taistotouta, Kagari, and Satapuala, agents who were some time ago appointed by the consuls on behalf of their respective Governments to assist Mali Toa in framing laws for the better government of hia people, have in the meantime suspended their functions. WELLINGTON, October 4. Death from a Cab Collision. At the inquest to-day on the young man named Murphy, who was removed from the police station to the hospital on Saturday, a verdict was returned that death resulted from a fall from his cab through a collision with another vehicle. The jury were of opinion that no blame was attached to the police, but they thought it was not advisable to bring in a rider to this effect, as no accusation had been made against the police. INVERCARGILL, October 4. Mr ProctorMr R. A. Proctor, the astronomer, accompanied by his agent, Mr R. S. Smythe, arrived this morning from Tasmania. He opens here to-morrow night, and will deliver a course of three lectures.