NEW ZEALAND

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2242, 5 May 1881, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND

[PBB PBBBB ASSOCIATION]. AUCKLAND. May 4. Chinese Pleasantry. The following is the latest phase of Chinese immigration. The steamer Lydia, Captain Ponlaon, put in to Honolulu with 700 Chinese on board. They had mutinied, and threatened to murder the European crew, and the captain applied to the authorities for assistance. The police endeavored to board the vessel, but after exhausting their ammunition retired, and the Chinamen then attacked the crew in the forecastle; but, as sixteen of them had served their time in the Herman army, they fought for their lives, and drove them back down into the hold, and closed the hatches on them till the police and soldiers arrived. The Honolulu “Gazette ” says that “eighty of the late (Chinese) importations are reported to be pirates by profession. They will have a clear field in that line of business, which has been left unworked up to the present by our own people.” Twenty-two cases of small pox were taken from the Lydia to the Hospital at Honolulu. Insane. A tailor named Goddard, of Melbourne, who was a passenger to San Francisco by the Zealandia, became insane on the passage. Grammar School. It is proposed to hold a public meeting re the conduct of the governors of the Grammar School in respect to the head-master and the Grammar School affairs. SmallpoxOne hundred and thirty patients were in Honolulu Smallpox Hospital when the mail steamer left. Three Europeans had died, MaliciousnessDetective Brennan has been sent to investigate an incendiary fire at Mr Mao Lean’s, Cambridge. Quarantined. The passengers by the City of New York, the mail agent, his assistant and workmen, are still at Motuhihi. WELLINGTON, May 4. Graving Dock. At a meeting of the Harbor Board, a letter was read from Mr Errington, of Auckland, on behalf of the patentee and builder of “ The patent iron floating graving dock,” London, offering to undertake the construction in Wellington of a dock capable of taking in steamers 450 ft long by 45ft beam, or ironclad cruisers of the “Invincible” class. The lifting power would be 5000 tons, and vessels of the largest size could be lifted in two and a-half hours, and lowered in three-quarters of an hour. The writer states that if the Board decided to have the dock constructed it could be done within a period of eighteen months. Several members of the Board expressed a hope that the time would soon come when the Board would seriously consider the question of constructing a dock, but it was agreed that at present no steps could be taken in that direction. A letter to that effect has been sent to Mr Errington. Ministerial. The Minister of Public Works left for Dunedin this evening. DUNEDIN, May 4. Freezing Process. Mr N. M. A. Wales, who was deputed by the committee of the proposed Frozen Meat Export Company to visit Victoria, New South Wales, and Queensland 1 and report on the best method for carrying on the work of the company, has just returned, and will present an exhaustive report at a meeting to be held on Monday.