NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2093, 8 November 1880, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND.

[PHB PBBSS ASSOCIATION. I GBAHAMSIOWN, November 8. Volunteer Review. One hundred Volunteers left this morning to take part in the Auckland Beview tomorrow. A large detachment leave to-night llining. The surveyors are pegging off at Te Arohs, 1 eleven men's ground for the prospectors. DUNEDIN, November 8. Drowned. Frank Butler was drowned in attempting to swim across the Kawaru falls. Shipping Information. At the trial trip of the Boojum on Saturday, Mr Mills announced that the Union Company were building a number of new steamers. The Manipori, one of them, will be 285 ft. long, and will have 36ft. beam, and 25 ft. depth of hold. She will be of the tame Sower as the Botomahana. The maximum raught will be 9ft., and she in intended to trade between Hokitika, Greymouth, Westport and Wanganui. A third steamer is intended to trade exclusively from Westport to the ports on the Bast Coast, and so to develop the coal resources of that port. She will carry 500 tons on a draft of lift. Three other steamer* will be built of steel, and will somewhat resemble the Boojum. One is to tender the Waitaki at Whangarei, and trade between that port and Waipu; another is to tender the company's steamship at Gisborne j and a third will be employed in tendering the Waitaki at Tauranga, and in keeping np communication between that place and Opotiki. Two smaller steamers and three launches are to be in the colony by this time next year. WANGANUI, November 8. Mr. Proctor. A Wellington correspondent in the " Chronicle," in a letter published on Saturday, stated that Mr Proctor had been engaged in Australia by Mr Smythe, and was under engagement to him for two yean at £SO per week. On arrival in Wanganui the statement . was shown to Mr Proctor, who immediately instructed his solicitor to demand a retraction and an apology. Mr Proctor denies emphatically the statement, there not being a particle of foundation for it. The first lecture, advertised for to-night, has been postponed, pending a retraction of the alleged injurious statemerit. DUNEDIN, November 8. Fire. Five staks of oats belonging to Alexander Youngson, of Popotuna, were burned down on Friday. It is supposed to be a case of incendiarism. They were insured in the Norwich Union for £l5O. lIMABTJ, November 8.

A Practical JokeForged documents bearing the seal of the Magistrate's Court were served on some of the Orar.gemen attending the late procession, charging them with carrying fire arms. Official envelopes were used, and the matter demands a searching investigation. AUCKLAND, November 6. Orange Culture. Some residents at Bussell are going in for orange culture, owing to the trees thriving well there. Bating. The Cambridge Jookey Clnb races were very successful, though not numerously patronised. NEW PLYMOUTH, November 6. AccidentA man named George George, engaged at Shuttleworth's saw-mills, received a nasty scalp wound from a piece of wood which new from a saw. It is not yet known if the accident will prove fatal. WELLINGTON, November 6. Bakaia Gorge Bridge. The following tenders were received for the Rakaia Gorge bridge contract:—Accepted, W. H. Bamar, Oamaru, £3397; declined, H. MoKenzie and Co., Dunedin, £3531 j McCombe and Day, Oamaru, £4114; B. B. Sibley, Timaru, £3367; Mercer and Low, Dunedin, £4545 ; Thoman and Hill, Amberley, £4393 ; Stock and Stenhonse, Christchurch, £4949; G. Thornton, Christehurch, £5111; Thomas Bussell, £5195 ; Henderson and Fergus, Dunedin, £5807. Accidents. A young man named Harry Woods was severely injured at Lyell's Bay to-day, by being thrown from a horse which he was riding. The cause of the accident was the breaking of the girth. A lad named Petherick had his hand! lacerated this evening by the explosion of a cartridge of dynamite. He received medical attendance, when his hand was amputated. DUNEDIN, November 6. SuicideAgnes Weir, wife of John Weir, of Williamsburgh, Morning ton, took poison yesterday afternoon. Her husband, who has been earning very little for some time past, contemplated going up country, and for this purpose had purchased a pack horse and saddle. Mrs Weir waß adverse to his leaving, and this, in conjunction with family matters, led her to commit the rash act. She was taken to the Hospital, where she died this afternoon. Reputed Libel Case. On dit that one of the candidates for the city mayoralty has issued a writ for £2OOO against the "Morning Herald " for alleged libel.

Sunday School Centenary. The centenary of the founding of Sundayschools by Mr Robert Baikes is now being celebrated in Dunedin. A. mass meeting of school children was held on Saturday in the Garrison Hall. Two thousand children and fire hundred adults were present, and appropriate addresses were delivered. [IEOM OTTB OWS COBBBSPOJTDKNTSj WELLINGTON, November 8. Encouragement of Economy. It has been determined to introduce in this colony the new system of postal Savings' Bank deposits lately originated in England by the Postmaster General, Mr Fawcett. 16 consists of the issue by the postal officers of a blank card ruled into twelve squares, each large enough to hold a postage stamp. Any depositor can fill up these squares with penny postage stamps, and so soon as the card is full he has only to present it at the SaTings* Bank when the stamps will be obliterated, and the filled up card accepted as the deposit in the usual way. This will ■ enable children or others who may desire to deposit pence, or any small sum under a shilling, which at present is not received by the Savings' Back, to make such deposits with as much facility aud security as larger sums. Native Land. It is intended shortly to remove the proclamation from ether Native lands besides Patetere, and withdraw from the nsgotiations for their purchase. WAIAU, November 7. Browned* A penon known as Captain Bunker, cook at the Lyndon Station, was drowned to-day while attempting to cross the Waiau river, opposite the Waiau township. The body has been re* covered.