NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2113, 1 December 1880, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND.

[PRESS ASSOCIATION.] AUCKLAND, December 1. Co-operative Store. The local manufacturers met last evening to consider the establishment of a co-operative store for the sale of their goods. The followingtrades were represented :—Cabinet-makers, portmanteau-makers, metal workers, shoemakers, cordial manufacturers, varnishmakers, brush-makers, and others. It was estimated that the expenses of a co-operative store in the main street would be £lO weekly, and the commission on the retail price 7J per cent. The meeting adjourned. The late Lieutenant BowenLieutenant Bowen, who commanded the H.M.B. Sandfly, and was hilled, as reported in Eeuter’s telegrams, was appointed from H.M.S. Danae while in Auckland to succeed Lieutenant Horne, appointed Sergeant-at-Arms. SportingThe Auckland Tattersall’s Club has been recognised by tho Eaeing Club. MiningGold has been struck in Waitoki Croak, three miles north of Te Aroha. WELLINGTON, December 1. FireAn unoccupied cottage of five rooms, in Sussex square, owned by Turner, a night watchman, was destroyed by fire this morning. The origin of tho fire is unknown. It was insured in the South British for £l5O. A stable behind the cottage was partially burnt. The insurance on the latter is unknown. WANGANUI, December 1. RacingNominations for the Wanganui autumn races close at nine o’clock to-night. INVEEOAEQILL, December 1. Death of a Whaling Captain. Captain Copping, master of the Hobart Town whaler Aladdin, who was injured off West Cape three weeks ago, died in the Hospital yesterday. AUCKLAND, November 30. AccidentsA dynamite cap held by a young man named Oathcart, at Eamsay’s survey camp, exploded, blowing off part of his thumb and forefinger. A boy named South, aged twelve, had his arm torn off at the hoisting winch at Messrs Jagger and Parker’s saw mills. He was removed to the hospital, whero his father is also lying ill. Yachting SeasonThe yachting season was inaugurated by the Auckland Club this afternoon by a procession and subsequent cruise outside. The run down the harbor presented a very pretty spectacle, as a large number of yachts took part. Wesleyan Maori StationAt the Wesleyan district meeting a resolution was carried that in consequence of the difficulty of maintaining efficiently the home mission work that the Maori stations hitherto supplied by European ministers be supplied as soon as practicable by Maori ministers, acting under the supervision of European ministers who have gone through a course of training at Three Kings. The Eev. G. Bond was elected representative of the district to attend the conference. A View of ParihakaThe English master at the Auckland Grammar school at tho Wesleyan Home Mission meeting last night, gave an account of his visit to Parihaka. Ha said that what he saw there impressed him deeply. He believed that the agents of the Government ware men of low stamp, by whom tho Maoris there had been corrupted, and they were drifting into indifference. DUNEDIN, November 80. Tapanui Branch Bail way. The Tapanui branch railway was formally opened to-day. About 120 Dunedin residents proceeded to Tapanui at the invitation of the contractors, and a banquet was bold then in the evening.

PostponedThe fire brigade demonstration ha* been postponed until Friday. OAMARTJ, November 30. StatisticsThe vital statistics for November are Births 37, marriages 5, deaths 5. Charge Against an Ez-Bailiff-Walter Bice, formerly bailiff, was charged at the Resident Magistrate’s Court to-day with appropriating to his own use a cheque for £8 2s 6d, the property of the General Government. He was remanded till tomorrow. INVERCARGILL, November 30. Vital StatisticsDuring the month ended to-day, 54 births and 10 deaths were registered in Invercargill. Six marriage certificates were issued. pFEOM OtTB OWN OOSBHSPONDBNS.] WELLINGTON, November 30. The Ministers and the GovernorIt turns out after all that it will not be necessary for all the Ministers to he gazetted and sworn in again, as was donejin the case of previous Governors entering into office. It wae supposed that this would be the case, but at & cabinet meeting held to-day an opinion wae given by the Attorney General that under the form of commission now issued to the Governor of New Zealand it is not necessary for the Ministers of the late Governor to be reappointed and re-sworn on a new Governor taking office. The present practice is for two commissions to be issued to a Governor. The first, a short one, simply conveying hie appointment, and secondly, a long one addressed merely to “ The Governor,” and not to the person holding that office, setting forth in detail all his duties and powers. As it is under the latter that Ministers are appointed, it is held that they do not require to be reappointed in consequence of a change in the person holding the office of Governor. Ministerefore, will not be sworn in again, but will go on as if no change of Governor had occurred. This applies also to members of the Executive Councils. This new system of gubernatorial commissions was first introduced in the case of Lord Normanby, and precedent was followed with Sir Hercoles Robinson, but attention had not been directed to the effect of this change in this Ministry. Mr Whitaker, however, is quite clear that this is the effect, because Ministers now are simply responsible advisers to the Governor of New Zealand and not to the person holding that office. The first meeting of the Executive Council under Sir A. Gordon’s Governorship will be held at Government House to-morrow at noon, his Excellency presiding. A Cabinet meetin ? was held this afternoon, at which all the Ministers, excepting the Minister for Public Works, were present. It laeted some hours, but the business was chiefly formal, relating to the assumption of office by Sir A. Gordon and various arrangements in consequence thereupon.