NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2085, 29 October 1880, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND.

[PBESS ASSOCIATION.] AUCKLAND, October 29. Rifle Shooting. The first of a series of ride matches, to test the relative merits of the existing sights and

targets'Os compared with Soall’* system of white sights and black targets, was held at the rifle range yesterday. The result was ia favour of the latter system. Wool Exhibition. No entries have yet been received by the local secretary for the wool exhibition at the Melbourne Exhibition WANGANUI. October 29. Agricultural ShowThe Agricultural Show yesterday was the most successful ever held in Wanganui. The exhibits were unusually numerous and the attendance excellent. The champion thoroughbred horse was Patriarch ; the champion draught horse, Young Lofty ; the champion bull, Matilda’s Double Brunswick, exhibited by Mr McLennan ; last year’s winner, Messrs Owen and Lethbridge’s Duke of Edinburgh, being second. Messrs Owen and Lethbridge secured, too, the champion prizes for long-woolhd sheep, the Lincoln prize being won by Mrs John Watt. The show of sheep was particularly choice, as all other classes were well filled, the railway enabling settlers in Bangitikei and Manawata to compete. DUNEDIN, October 29. The Clara Hargravees. The notorious case of the ship Clara Hargraves is under the consideration of a committee of the Chamber of Commerce. The Horbor Board yesterday resolved to forwsrd a remonstrance to the Government protesting against their action in allowing the vessel to proceed to sea, Mr Maekay, shipbuilder, and Captain Thomson united in saying that the ship was in a most unseaworthy state. The latter said the Government had supported him until now. AUCKLAND, October 28. Sale of Waste lands. At a meeting of the Waste Lands Board a t elegram was read from Hm. W. Eolleston, intimating that the Government approved generally of the terms of sale to Messrs Grant and Forster, and informing them that Mr Bussell’s claim would be dealt with independently. HAWKRA, October 28. Sale of Waimate Plains. About 300 persons were present at the sale of the Waimate sections, which fetched an average of £7 per acre. Prices ranged from £5 Is to £lO 2s 6d. There was keen competition for some sections, and others went low. Captain Wray, the new Commissioner, sold the land. Major Baddelley, the Receiver of Land Revenue ; Mr Robinson, the Banger ; Mr Wilkinson, Land Officer at Haweaa ; and Mr Baggett, clerk of,Land Office, were all present, and everything went off smoothly. A large attendance is expected at the cash sale to-morrow. NAPIER, October 28. RacingEntries for the Maiden Steeplechase and Napier Steeplechase Cup, to be run on the fth November, close on Saturday evening. Nominations for the Hawke’s Bay Cup and Baoing Club Handicap, to be run on January 19th r and 20:b, close on Monday evening next. WELLINGTON, October 28. The Premier. ; The Premier returned to town last night from a visit to Wairarapa and Manawatu b districts. The West Coast Railway. The Government have offered the promoters of the Wellington • Foxton Railway Company to hand over the whole of the work already done on the Wadestown fection, including the survey, levelling cuttings, earthworks, tunnelling culverts, Ac., also the rails, iron bridge, and rolling stock already procured for this line, and now in hand ; also the land acquired from > private owners for the line to pass through ; i also to complete the survey of the line to 1 Foxton ; to acquire for the promoters the land|aeeded[for the passage of the line beyond the point to which it Las been secured ; also to accord them permission to deposit in the bay, between Pipitea and Kaiwarra, the spoil earth excavated from various cuttings, and grout them a certain area of land thus reclaimed. All this is to be given free of exi pense, but subject to a guarantee that the p promoters will actually carry out their part 1 of the arrangements, bt d complete the line as proposedjfrom Wellington to Fulton, the question of a Government guarantee of a certain per centage on the cost of the work, and of the application of funds received from the sale of land along the route of the railway to recoup its cost, or rather to purchase it on ■ behalf of the Government, being left to Parliament to consider. Maori Prisoners’ Act A proclamation in the “ Gaz-tte ” extend the Maori Prisoners Aot, 1880, for three months. Ports of Entry. The ports of Whangarei, Tauranga, Havelock, Kaikoura and Akaroa have been closed as ports of enl ry. MagisterialMr G. B. Davy has been appointed B.M for Wellington district, with extended jurisdiction to £IOO. Gazette NoticeFresh by-laws and regulations, under which the Ashburton, the Waltaki and the Baksia bridges will be opened for ordinary traffic, are published in the “ Gazette.” NELSON, October 28. Drummed OutThe officer commanding the volunteers in this district has received instructions from the Defence Office to summarily dismiss a sergeant in the Waimoa B.fla corps for repeated absence from parades. TIMABU, October 28. Steeplechasing. At a meeting of the New Zealand Grand National Steeplechase Olub held last night Mr M. Studholme was elected president for the current year, and Mr E. Menlove visepresident. It was resolved that the next race meeting be held in Timaru on May 24th, 1881. The Show. Over £250 were taken at the gates at the show yesterday. DUNEDIN, October 28. Illicit Distillation. Alex. Annan, who was recently fined £2OO, with the alternative of twelve months’ imprisonment, for illicit distillation at Waihemo, near Palmerston, paid the fine this afternoon, and was immediately discharged from gaoL Philip McCarthy, for aiding and abetting in the offence, was discharged on bail yesterday in his own recognisance for £4OO and two sureties for £220 each for his appearance at the ORBuing sessions of the District Court, Palmerston. Pending an appeal by Mr Macdermott, Mary Hood remains in gaol at present. The Kyehurn Murderer. The prisoner Ah Lea was visited at the gaol this morning by Bishop Neville, who was accompanied by Mr O. O. Kettle and Mr Albert Leung Chung, The condemned man continues to assert his innocence of the murder. The Bishop is taking steps on the convict’s behalf to endeavor to obtain a respite of the sentence of death until further inquiries can be made. The Industrial School. There are now in the Industrial School 156 boys and 106 girls. The institution has been over-crowded for some time past, and representations have been made to the Government that increased accommodation is urgently required, as nearly all the inmatesjare of tender years, and cannot be licensed out. It is probable that within the next six months Mr Tichener will have 300 on the roll

fFBOiI OTJB OWN COBEESPONDBST.I WELLINGTON, October 28. -A Bumptious Official

The Government interpreter at the constabulary camp, Mr Thompson, has taken it upon himself to protest against the action of Ministers in selling the Waimate Plains, and has written to Mr Bryce a strongly-worded letter on the Native policy of the Government and the iniquity of robbing the Maoris of the Waimate Plains, in which it is understood that Mr Thompson’s wife, who is' of Native descent, is interested. The letter is expressed in a very bumptious and impudent strain. As this conduct is not consistent with the subordination and discipline desirable to be preserved in the publio service, and especially in the camp at the “ front ” during the military occupation of the disturbed district, it has been decided to dispense with Mr Thompson’s services, and he has accordingly received notice of dismissal.

The Parihaka Natives.

Official telegrams received from the camp fllil afternoon record the usual advance and zetreat of the Natives. Major Take says that most of the Parihaka Natives are actively engaged in cultivation. Therefore he does not attash much importance to the meeting which I telegraphed to you that Te Whiti had called for to-day, and which Titokoworan and his people attended. The meeting proves to be only a small affair, but the result is not yet known.

Sir F- 3). Bell.

At a Cabinet Council held this afternoon, it waa decided that Sir F. D. Bell, the new Agent-General, should leave for England in December.