NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2084, 28 October 1880, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND.

AUCKLAND, October 28. Cricket.

The newly-formed Civil Service Cricket Club numbers eighty members. A- & F. Association-

The Agricultural and Pastoral Association have erected a spacious new building. land Purchases.

It is expected that the Government will shortly remove all proclamations from land purchases which they do not intend to complete, including the Fatetere block. It is said that the Government mean to withdraw from negotiations iu the Arawa district, except with regard to the Tepube block, which has been completed, the Waitahanue block of forty thousand acres, and two others aggregating 60,000. The whole area of land under negotiation in the Arawa district is estimated at a million and a half of acres, on which the Government have made advances. GISBORNE, October 28. The loch Nagar.

The Loch Nagar is now high upon the beach. Messrs Shaw, Savill and Go. hare been cabled to with a view to ascertaining if she is insured, in order that the vessel may be abandoned to the underwriters. The vessel herself weighs over 1000 tone, and there is an entire absence of any appliances whatever for getting her off the beach. The prevailing opinion is that there is little chance of getting her afloat again, although the sea has gone down considerably and the weather is fine. The Weather. The rainfall during the past two days is the greatest ever known m the district, WELLINGTON, October 28. Serious Accident. A lad named Batkin met with a serious accident at the College grounds yesterday. Ho was playing with a heavy roller when he slipped and the roller passed over his head and shoulders, breaking his arm and fracturing his skull. He is still in a precarious state. INVERCARGILL, October 28. The Tariff QuestionMr Maxwel promised a deputation that the Government would revert to the August time tables on the northern (sic) railways. He said that there were great difficulties in the way of assimilating the goods tariff on port lines, as there were no facilities for weighing goods at Port Chalmers or Lyttelton. AUCKLAND, October 2f. The ConstabularyA party of thirty-five Armed Constabulary, under Captain Capel, are ordered to leave Cambridge for road-making on the Rotorua road. Racing. Nominations for the Auckland Cup, Racing Club' Handicap and Steeplechase at the Summer Meeting of the Auckland Racing Club close on Friday next, October 29th, at 8 p m. Accident* A lad at the Naval Training School, Kohimarama, fell from a ladder, breaking his fore*

arm and receiving concussion of the brain. He is now recovering. NAPIER, October 27. Proposed Woollen Factory. A largely attended meeting was held on Monday sight and provisional directors were appointed to obtain information to take the necess iry steps for the formation of a woollen manufacturing company here. GISBORNE, October 27. Stranding of the Loch HagarA terrific S E. gale has been prevailing for the last twenty-four hours, attended with a heavy downpour of rain. The rivers are all flooded, and it is feared that much damage will be done. Messrs Shaw, Seville's and Go's ship Loch Nagar, Captain George Porram, 590 tons, from London, loading wool here, has been driven on to the beach, and is now high and dry. At 7 a.m., the ship was riding with 140 fathoms on the starboard anchor and 75 on the port anchor. She parted her starboard chain and veered out all the cable on the port anchor, and while getting in the remnant of the starboard chain to shackle on to the port cable, the ship parted the latter. A tremendous sea was running the whole time. The fore-topmast staysail was hoisted, and the ship was run on to the beach. Had the cable not parted the ship could have weathered out the gale, as there ia excellent holding in the harbor. The ship is apparently uninjured. About seventy-six bales of wool are on board and fifty-four tons of manganese. It is not known whether the ship is insured. WELLINGTON, October 27. XJrenui Bridge. The tender of Mr J. Oleary, Wellington, for £9SI, has been accepted for the Urenui road bridge contract, county of Taranaki. DUNEDIN, October 27. Titanic Steel CoThe Dunedin shareholders of the Titanic Steel Company held a meeting yesterday, and unanimously adopted the following resolutions tors be requested to write to Wellington for the particulars re Crown Grant, and to report at a future meeting.” “ That Mr W. D. Stewart, M.H.R. be written to, and the thanks of the Dnnedin shareholders conveyed to him for the able manner in which he has protected their interests when in Wellington.” Another LawyerMr Frederick Fitchett, of Dunedin, was this day admitted and enrolled as a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of New Zealand, by hit Honor Mr Justice Williams. Bemains Identified. At the inquiry held to-day on the human remains found in the bush at O wake, near Gatlin’s River, they were identified as those of Robert Grey, who was missed in May, 1876. Grey was employed at Mr Robert Andersen’s sawmill.