NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2308, 27 August 1881, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND.

fl?HB PEBBB ASSOCIATION.] AUCKLAND, August 26. Petition to ParliamentThe petition against the Bill for the aboli tion of the law of distraint for rent has been numerously and most influentially signed, and will bo dispatched by the next southern mail. An Original Idea. A strange idea occurred to a man named dagger, a resident of Kawakawa, who raffled himself for twenty members at 4s each, the winner to have dagger's services for fourteen days. A Sufferer. A gumdigger, named William Harker, fell into a fire during an epileptic fit, at Wade, and determined to terminate his sufferings by drowning, but was prevented by a settler named Hardy. Quarantine RulesAt a meeting of the local Board of Health, a resolution was passed condemning the new quarantine regulations, and urging the Government to resort to the previous stringent regulations, or the introduction of smallpox would simply be a question of time. The Black Monarch. It is stated that the Maori king visits Auckland and the northern settlements in three weeks. NEW PLYMOUTH, August 26. Native Lands. Mr Humphries, Chief Surveyor, left to-day for Pungarehu. The object of his visit is to assist the constabulary authorities in ascertaining the exact position of the Native reserves, as the constabulary have no definite idea whether the Natives are encroaching upon Crown lands. Large numbers of cultivations are being commenced by the Natives in the vicinity of the boundary lines. Before any action will be taken by the constabulary with respect to the Natives, it will be clearly determined that the Natives are making cultivations upon land held by the Crown. WELLINGTON, August 26. Masonic. Advices by the English mail announce that Mr George O. Graham, District Grand Master of Auckland, E. 0., has been appointed a member of the Supreme Council of England, and as such with the highest Masonic degree possible to obtain, viz., 33rd. LYELL, August 26. Mining. The United Alpine Company’s scraping of plates for the week amounted to 376 ounces amalgam from 218 tons stone. DUNEDIN, August 26, A Lively Bankruptcy CaseThere is great excitement here in com meroial circles in connection with the examination of 8. Clayton, a bankrupt, by the trustees in his estate, Messrs Leary and Conyers. Creditors are admitted to the examination, and the proceedings have been reported, although without the trustees’ consent. Mr Olaj ton’s statement makes extraordinary allegations affecting Mr Guthrie, of Guthrie and Larnach’s Company, and alleges most intimate business relations between the two.