NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2240, 7 June 1881, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND.

[PBB PBB3B ASSOCIATION.] AUCKLAND, June 6. Sacrilege. The donation box at St. Patrick’s Cathedral hag been robbed, and a man named Adam McOornish bag been arrested on suspicion. Dissatisfied. A petition is in course of private circulalation, praying the Assembly to alter the constitution of the Grammar JSchool Board of Governors by abolishing the three members elected by the Senate of the New Zealand University. An Embargo* The marine surveyors have ordered certain repairs to bo made to the brig Syren before proceeding to sea. Rewi’s House. On formally taking possession of the house at Kihikihi given to Eowi by the Government, he gave a feast and made a speech. Majors Jackson and Mair were present. Sewi said that the land on the south side of the confiscated boundary was in Tawhaio’s hands, and he (Bewi), owing to the decision of the late meeting at Hikurangi, felt compelled to order Boss’s cattle off to prevent disturbances. He was going to see Tawhaio again, and would have more to say about the matter on his return. The friendship between the Natives and Europeans would remain unbroken. TAUEANGA, June 6. Fire Inquest. An inquest on the recent fire was held today, before Captain Tovey and a jury. Mr Lee, in whose house the fire originated, and a number of other witnesses, were examined, but no fresh facts were elicited. The jury returned a verdict to the effect that the origin if the fire was unknown. NAPIEE, June 6. A Retrograde Step. The Waipawa County Council have decided to abandon the maintenance of the Seventy Mile Bush road, as, with the exception of a few small isolated settlements, the land through which the road passes is either Crown or Native property, paying no rates, and as the Government will not give a grant in aid for the maintenance of the road, the Waipawa Council have decided not to continue to bear such a burden. The Collision EnquiryThe Boojum and Sir Donald collision case came up again before Mr Denny, E.M., and on the question of costs the Magistrate said that he thought he had power to order costs against the Union Company, but as a doubt had been thrown on the point, he would refrain from doing so, particularly in view of the ruling on a similar point at the Court of Inquiry and the Tararua case. Mr Carlyle, for the owners of the Sir Donald, pointed out the unfairness of allowing the Union Company to be represented by counsel at the inquiry without taking the risk of being mulcted in costs. The magistrate said he would not in future allow the Company to be represented unless it appeared as a party in the case, and so became liable for costs. Native DisputeA Native squabble about a disputed boundary occurred at Omahau on Saturday. Donnelly’s people had been driving some sheep upon a piece of ground claimed by Eenata Eawepo, and the result was that Eenata’s party killed 280 sheep belonging to Mrs Donnelly’s mother and other Natives. WELLINGTON, June 6, Search for Castaways. The Marine Department have instructed Captain Fairchild, of the steamer Stella, lying at the Bluff, to search Mutton Bird Island (a small island to the eastward of Stewart Island) and those adjacent in the hope of finding Roger Owen and Edward Clark, who are supposed to have been wrecked in tho cutter Hannah on Mutton Bird Island about two months ago. Obituary. Captain Mundle, well known in the shipping trade of New Zealand, died last evening. GEETMOUTH, June 6. PoliticalMr T. 8. Weston addressed a crowded meeting to-night; the Mayor in the chair. He received an enthusiastic reception, and a vote of confidence in him was unanimously carried. OAMAEU, June 6. Mr Jones, M.H.E., addressed his constituents this evening. The hall, which was a small one, was filled. The meeting was orderly, and at its conclusion he was accorded a vote of confidence, DUNEDIN, June 6. Mr J. Bathgate, formerly Minister for Justice, is likely to be a candidate at the next general election for Dunedin. Pleasant News. At a meeting of the Waimea Plains Railway Company, Mr Larnaoh, the chairman, said that it was fully expected that the line would pay 9 or 10 per cent, in the course of a year or so. It was stated that the New Zealand Land Company had sold £130,000 worth of land to fifty farmers, [feom the own coeeespondent of the “PEESB,”J WELLINGTON, June G, Ministers are hard at work over Bills, especially the Representation Bill, which is giving a vast amount of trouble. Aifaong the subjects still undergoing careful discussion may be mentioned that of local government, finance, and reform. When Captain Hume's report is published, it will be seen that the guesses already made as to its contents are amusingly wide of the truth. Somebody evidently has been cruelly hoaxed, and it is not at all improbable that certain statements which have been published relative to the style, the literary merits and demerits of the document may give rise to legal proceedings.