NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2317, 7 September 1881, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND.

[PBB PBBSB ASSOCIATION.! AUCKLAND, September C. Harbour Improvements. A a meeting of the Harbor Board the committee recommended that tenders be called for section 1 of the preliminary reclamation work in the construction of the new dock at Calliope Point. The recommendation was adopted, Mr McKenzie being the only dissentient. Making Preparation. Mr W. F. Buokland announces that he will contest Franklyn, and Mr Garratt will contest the City West at the general election. Sugar ProductionJudge Gillies states that he has satisfied himself that beetroot could not bo grown as a sugar producer in New Zealand. He is cultivating sorghum, which can be profitably grown for the production of sugar. NAFIEE, September 6. The Post-office Thief. Rendle was to-day sentenced to twelve months’ imprisonment for having skeleton keys in bis possession. He said he found them in the lodgings previously occupied by him, but had not used them. The object of dealing summarily with him on this charge was to prevent application being made for bail, pending the sitting of the Supreme Court. On the various charges of opening letters and stealing the contents, ha was committed for trial. BurglaryMessrs Common and Co.’s store, at Gisborne, was entered by burglars on Sunday and the cash-box, containing £54 in cheques and £7 in notes and cash, was taken away. The cheques are identifiable. WELLINGTON, September 6. A Would-be SuicideAt the Magistrates’ Court to-day, Robert Bolt, who attempted suicide on Sunday week, was committed for trial. DUNEDIN, September 6. Government Tramway. The Government have accepted the tender of L, Bennett, Winton, £3295 7s, for five and a quarter miles of the Winton to Forest Hill tramway. Railway Improvements, At a public meeting to-night, resolutions wore carried urging the Government to carry out the new railway station arrangements, also to complete and furnish the Hillside workshops. A telegram from Mr Oliver was read that the Premier intends to go on with the railway station works. The intended resolutions regarding the Representation Bill were not moved, being now unnecessary. The Drink InterestsAt tha Licensing Court to-day out of eight new applications only one was granted. Two were adjourned and the others refused. Scarlet Fever. A good deal of scarlet fever exists both in Dunedin and Port Chalmers. InquestAn inquest was held to-day on the man Watt, who fell over the cliff in Cumberland street on Sunday morning. Ho landed at Port Chalmers from Lyttelton on the road to Melbourne on Wednesday. He had £l4 in his possession, over the passage money, when ho left Lyttelton, but only £2 7s 6d were on him when found, and the police have been unable to find a trace of how the money was spent or where deceased stayed from the time he landed till Saturday night. He seems to have wandered about in company with two or three men on Saturday night. The men say that they left him early on Sunday morning, and it is supposed that he fell asleep outside somewhere, end that on waking up at six o’clock he fell over the cliff. A verdict was returned of “ Accidental death,” with a rider that a fence should be erected on the cliff. Deceased was twenty-three years of age;