NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2325, 16 September 1881, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND.

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AUCKLAND, September 15. Few Steamship Company. An influential meeting has been held to promote the formation of a company, to be called the Auckland and South Pacific Steam Company, with a capital of halt a million. Upwards of 5000 shares were subscribed in the room. High Mass. A solemn requiem mass was performed at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, in memory of Archbishop Steins. Singular AccidentEdward Johnson, aged five, tripped and fell in Pukekohe public school play ground. Ho fell on a stump, and died of the injury, which had produced an abscess. Land still AvailableAt a meeting of the Waste Lands Board it was stated that 122.000 acres had been declared the waste lands of the Board by the Government. The Natives and their King. A large number of Coromandel Natives went by train to-day to attend Tawhaio’s mooting at Hikurangi. They say they will bring Tawhaio back with them. Ee-formed-The now North Shore Ferry Company has purchased out the old company. The price is said to be £9OOO for steamers and goodwill. A Railway Company. The prospectus of the Thames Valley Railway Company has been issued, with a capital of £400,000, and an influential directory. The proposal is to construct a railway from Morrinvillo to Lake Kotorua under the Districl Railways Act. Ecclesiastical. The Rev. Allan Webb, Baptist minister, has resigned. It is understood that he goes to Adelaide. Trout Ova. Fifteen thousand brown trout ova, brought by the To Anau, have been taken to Henderson’s mill creek to be hatched there. The ova was successfully deposited in the hatching places which had been previously prepared. Native Products. By the Araby Maid, for London, were shipped 674 tons kauri gum, valued at £36,000. The total value of her cargo was £50,000. A Good Example. Judge Gillies refused an order of discharge in bankruptcy to a debtor, as his assets were nil, and he did not appear in person, but by counsel. Gold Export. The Australia, mail steamer, took £60,000 worth of gold for California. THAMES, September 15. Specials* Two hundred persons applied for olive truncheons, given by Sir George Grey, at the county offices this day. The supply was inadequate to the demand. WELLINGTON, September 15. Wreck AshoreThe remains of a boat, measuring about sixteen feet in length, were washed ashore at Island Bay yesterday. With the wreck there were found two life buoys painted white, three rowlocks, and one oar, with the word Napier appearing on the handle. The Dock Question.

At a meeting of tho Harbor Board, the graving dock committee reported that it was arranged that a letter should be sent to England to the principal firms for information with respect to floating docks, their coat, size, &c., it being the opinion of the committee that a floating dock would answer tho requirements of Wellington. It had also been arranged to write to Port Lyttelton, with a view to collect all available information respecting the dock building there.

TIMARU, September 15, Enlarged Electoral Roll. Since the lest general election no less than 591 now names have been added to the electoral roll for the district of Timaru, making a total of 1328 aa against 734. DUNEDIN, September 15. The Drink Interest. Tho Licensed Victuallers Association, today, telegraphed to tho Hon. T. Dick and the other members of tho conference on the Licensing Bill, covering a resolution oondemning the Bill and urging that it be allowed to stand over till next Parliament.