AUSTRALIA.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2170, 8 February 1881, Page 2

AUSTRALIA.

[REUTER r B TELEGRAMS.] MELBOURNE, February 7. ShippingThe P. and O. Company’s steamer Peshawar arrived hero to-day with the inward Suez mail, NEW ZEALAND. j>EB PRESS ASSOCIATION,] WELLINGTON, February 8. A Maori Member Resigned. A writ is issued for the election of a member of the House of Representatives far the Southern Maori electoral district vice Tainui resigned. Nominations will be received at Eaiapoi on the Ist of March, and a poll if necessary on 25th March. Ministerial Changes. Mr Bryce’s resignation, and Mr Bolleston’s appointment as Native Minister are gazetted. Gazette. The following papers are appointed Provincial Gazettes :—The Herald, Auckland ; News, Taranaki; Telegraph, Hawkes Bay; Mail, Nelson ; West Coast Times, Westland; Times, Marlborough; Press, Canterbury; Times and Witness, Otago. The Eleven. The Wellington second innings closed for 68 this morning, thus losing the match by one innings and 21 runs. A scratch match will be played this afternoon. TIMARU, February 8. Discharge of a Dying Prisoner. Thomson, a young man aged twenty-three, was sentenced at the last Supreme Court for embezzling monies belonging to his employer, a storekeeper at Waimato, was liberated by order of the Minister of Justice thia morning, being at the point of death from consumption. AUCKLAND, February 7. Good WorkThe Acclimatisation Society have ordered 5000 trout from California. Our Native Products. At the half-yearly meeting of the Bay of Islands Coal Company it was stated that the coal sold last half-year was 26,000 tons. £IOOO were added to the reserve fund, and a dividend of 10 per cent, per annum was declared. The Hon. James Williamson was re-elected a director. Accident. A boy named Jamc-a Ed worth was thrown from a horse and dragged for some distance. He is not expected to liveWANGANUI, February 7. Accident. A man named Dias was killed to-day by the accidental capsize of a dray. GEEYMOUXH, February 7. Mining. The Golden Fleece Extended for seven and a half days’ crushing, obtained 253 ounces of amalgam from 175 tons quartz. The United Alpine, Lyell, 145 ounces amalgam from 82 tons of quartz. DUNEDIN, February 7. A Defaulting Clerk. Adolph Moritzson, late oltrk to the Standard Insurance Company, has been committed for trial on several charges of embezzlement. A Just ProceedingIn connection with an application for diecharge by a debtor at the Supreme Court this morning, Mr Justice Williams made some important remarks affecting the operations of the Land Act. He said that when a deferred payment bolder had a section which was likely to prodnos good crops the Legislature did not intend that a bankrupt should reap the benefit of the crop and become a rich man

st the expense of bis creditors. The application was adjourned till the result of the crop was ascertained, so that a compromise might be effected with the creditors. The Interprovincial MatchA correspondent of the “ Star ” expresses regret that many cricketers find It impossible to go to Christchurch for the Intorprovinoial match this year, as Otago has now a better ohance of winning than for the last six •e aeons. INVERCARGILL, February 7. The Rev Mr Spurgeon’s Son. Mr Thomas Spurgeon, son of the wellknown preacher, was a passenger by the ateamer from Melbourne to-day. Onr SecretaryThe Hon. T. Dick, Colonial Secretary, returned in the s.s. Rotomahana to-day. New Bank BuildingThe Colonial Bank intend to erect brick offices here, having secured a capital site near the Government buildings. Death by Drowning. A boy named McQuarrio, aged eight, was drowned off the Bluff wharf this evening. He was in company with several lads of about the same age, but they wore unable to reaoue him. [fboh the own cobbbhpondbnt of the “ PBB8B.”] WELLINGTON, February 7. Major Atkinson goes to Taranaki on Thursday next. Mr Rolleston will probably leave town for the Waimate Plains in the course of a day or two. Mr Dick is expected back from Sydney, and Mr Oliver from Dunedin towards the end of the week. In the last “Home News” appeared a notice of the death of Mr J. 8. Moore, " formerly Judge of the Supreme Court of New Zealand.” As probably many people will fail to recollect the existence of a New Zealand Judge of that name, I may explain that Mr Joseph Schroder Moore was only tomporarily appointed to the Bench. He was a barrister practising in Victoria, and on the late Chief Justice, Sir George Arnoy, obtaining leave of absence on account of ill health, Mr Moore was appointed as a Judge of the Supreme Court, to hold office during the Governor’s pleasure, instead of “ daring good behaviour,” os in the case of the permanent Judges. Mr Justice Moore held office from May 15th, 1866, to June 20th, 1868, his sphere of duty being chiefly in Auckland.