NEW ZEALAND

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2231, 22 April 1881, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND

[PBB PBBB3 ASSOCIATION .1 WELLINGTON, April 21. Humanity Scores a Win. Whitelaw has been dismissed from the Civil Service of the colony, and applications are called for a resident medical superintendent for the Wellington Asylum. Colonial Produce. The “ Gazette ” contains a notice that a bonus of £SOO will be given for the first twenty-five tons of butter or first fifty tons of -cheese (produced in a factory working on the American principle, and to which factory any farmer, subject to certain conditions, may send his milk), which shall be exported from New Zealand and sold at such prices in a foreign market as shall show that the articles are of fair quality. A bonus of £SOO will also bo given on the first 100 tons of fresh meat exported from New Zealand in vessels fitted with refrigerating machinery. Such meat mast have been collected in a refrigerating chamber in this colony, and must have faeen landed in Europe in a sound marketable condition. Mrs Kettle’s Son in Hot Water. A warrant of arrest baa been issued against Whitelaw at the instance of the Crown, calling on him to show cause why he ehould not be adjudged to pay to the Crown o sum of £270, being the aggregate amount of salary doe to his mother. Mrs Kettle, while acting as matron in the Wellington Asylum, and re* ceived by Whitelaw on her account. Whitelaw at present being in gaol awaiting trial on a charge of ill-treating a patient, the warrant wae unable to bo executed, but should ho obtain the necessary bond on the first charge, the warrant will be served upon him. Liberty. The Native Minister, accompanied by Mr Farris and Hone Pihama, leave for the South in the Hinemoa to-morrow. Their visit is to select the Maori prisoners who are to be released from custody.

Lucky Fellow. The Wellington College Governors to-day determined upon giving Mr McKay, the new principal of the College, a four years’ engagement, and to place the whole control of the establishment in his hands, and allow him to choose his own staff. OAM ABU, April 21. Parental Neglect. An inquest was hold to day on a child aged four, named Lammas, who died suddenly on Tuesday. The verdict was to the effect that death was accelerated by neglect on tbe part of its parents, and the jury, in cautioning them, said they had narrowly escaped a charge of manslaughter. The Maritime City Draws in its HornsThe attempt to hold a ram and ewe fair in Oamaru this year has fallen through. Watts TJ.P. ? A good deal of dissatisfaction is expressed at Mr Watts being appointed Eesident Magistrate here, and it is proposed to petition Government against his transfer to Oamaru. [from the own correspondent op the “ PRBSB.”] WELLINGTON, April 21. FinanceAlthough the complete accounts for last financial year will not be ready much before the end of the month, it is understood that a pretty close knowledge is now arrived at as to the’ results of the year’s operations. The figures will be found somewhat os follows : Customs, about £1,307,000, or £57,000 above the estimate; stamps, £142.700, or £2,700 above the estimate ; railways, about £829,000, OP £lll,OOO below tho estimate ; postal, £J 51,000, or £6OOO above the estimate; telegraph, about £72,000, or £BOOO short; judicial, about £57,000, or £3OOO under ; land transfer and deeds registry, £38,700, or £6700 to the good; land sales, about £299,000, or £99,000 on the right side. These figures, of course, must not be regarded as official, or anything beyond an approximation, but they will probably not bo found far wide of tho truth. Land at Parihaka. Three sections in the Parihaka block have been disposed of for cash, seven upon deferred payment, and one small one to a registered immigrant under the Immigrant’s Land Act. The disposal of these sections means tho actual settlement of the block at an early date, as tho sections disposed of on deferred payments must be accepted within six months after tho issue of the license to occupy. Now that a commencement has been made there is no doubt that the whole of the lands in the Parihaka block at present for sale will bo speedily taken up. It be recollected that none of tho sections in this block were disposed of when put up to public auction on 7th of February last. There are still twenty-six sections available for sale for cash, and three sections of fifty acres each upon deferred payments, the remainder being in small sections of five acres and less under tho village settlement regulations.