NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2122, 11 December 1880, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND.

[PBBfIS ASSOCIATION.J AUCKLAND, December 11. Mr Reed's Special Settlement. Mr G-. M. Reed writes contradicting emphatically a statement made ia the daily papers that he has arranged with, the Loan and Mercantile Agency to take over a block of Poverty Bay land for special settlers. He says he has not had any transaction with any loan company in New Zealand, his arrangement with his special settlers precluding a necessity for any such arrangement. The Patetere Block. Steps are being taken to convene a public meeting in Auckland to discuss the question of the Patetere lands. The Mayor ElectThe Mayor elect gives a banquet next Wednesdaj^^ WELLINGTON, December 11. Suicide. A German named L. Dreoxler, a watchmaker, -was drowned early this morning. He was standing near the edge of the breastwork, and shortly after calls for help were heard, but he sank before he oould be rescued. As inquest will be hold. The cause of his attempt to destroy himself is supposed to have been his inability to obtain work. AUCKLAND, December 10. A Find of Coal. Coal has been found at Ngunnru, about half a mile from the main river of Ngunuru. Discovery of Quartz Beef. A discovery of quartz has been made near Pokeno, three miles from the railway station. ' The reef is well defined, and the range in which the discovery has been made is similar ' in character to that at the Thames. Official Enquiry. i The official inquiry which Mr Williamson, ■ the Registrar of the Supreme Court, has been making into the matter of account , between the Government and Mr J. C. Young i is finished. The result will not be known for some time yet. ' Special Settlement. | Mr G. M. Reed has arranged with the New ! Zealand Land Agency to take over 120,000 acres at Poverty Bay for a special settlement. Mr Bailley, for the company, left for Gisborne | yesterday to complete the negotiations. > - Drowned. ' A youth named Tod, assistant steward on : the Rangarua, at Ngaruawhaia, has been c drowned. He fell off the steamer alongside the wharf. t The Eird NuisanceAt a meeting of tho Pastoral and Agriool- ' tnral Association to consider the bird [nui--3 lance, a resolution was carried that the association should at the end of the season " endeavor to get farmers universally to bay r poisoned grain to reduce the pest, and that a sum of money in aid be set apart at the ' annual meeting of the association. » Election. Mr David Goldie has been elected a amber of the Education Board. r An EccentricI The late Mr Alexander Wright has left the whole of his personal property, valued at £2OOO, to his solicitor, Mr Adam Brock. The eooentrio old gentleman left his real estate to his relatives in Scotland. "WELLINGTON, December 10. Refusal to Give Judgment The Customs authorities have issued in- # structions to the Crown prosecutor to apply to the Supreme Court for a mandamus to oompei the Mayor and Dr. Harding to give judgment in the cese of the Customs authorities v Charles Martin, of the Albion Hotel, a charged with having seven unstamped boxes ) of cigars in his possession. The Justices • named entered a conviction, but declined to inflict a penalty as required by law. a Appeal Court. II At the Appeal Court to-day judgment in the cases of Q.uinn (Ohristchuroh) and O'Neill (Dunedin) was delivered, affirming the convictions. In the case of Guy and s Kinross (appellants) v Bullock's trustee • (Napier), the Court reversed the judgment of the Court below, and over-ruled the demurrer to the pleas of the defendants, Messrs " Guy and Kinross. a DUNEDIN, December 10. The Union S-S- CompanyA cable message was received by the Union Steamship Company yesterday, intimating that their shares had been admitted on the 1 London Stock Exchange. Volunteering 1 . 1 The firing for the ladies' challenge shield took place to-day at the Otago Rifle Association matches. The ranges were 200, 400, and 600 yards ; seven shots e.t each range. The North Dunedin and Olutha Rifles each made _ 383, but the former having made the best score at the longest range, took the shield. 1 [FROM OUB GWK COBBESPOKDENT.J 1 WELLINGTON, December 10. The Parihaka Natives. » Mr Bryce returned to Wellington from i Wanganui by the coach last evening. The j Parihaka survey is proceeding steadily without any obstruction on tho part of the Natives. There have been no more attempts ' at fencing, the Maoris contenting themselves with guarding the gap in the wheat paddock fence where the road passes through. The New Governor. His Excellency, Sir Arthur Gordon, will j make a tour of the whole colony in the early part of next year, leaving Wellington towards the ' end of January. The various districts of the North Island will be first visited, and afterwards the different parts of the South Island, including the West Coast Sounds. The probablo route will be from Wellington to Lyttelton, thence overlaid to Westland; by steamer to tho Sounds and Bluff, overland to Dunedin, Christchurch and Lyttelton, thence by steamer to Wellington. Lady Gordon is expected to arrive in New Zealand next March, coming by one of the Orient steamers to Melbourne and thence by the Union Company's boat to the Bluff, where she will probably be met by his Excellency. Parliamentary Librarian. The post of Parliamentary Librarian* vacated by the death of Mr E. McColl, is practically in the gift of the Library Committee of the General Asiiembly, and not of the Government, the function of the latter consisting simply in advising his Excellency the Governor to confirm the appointment recommended by the committee. It is thought likely that the new appointed will not be permanently made before next session. Already there are crowd? of applicants.