NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2326, 17 September 1881, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND.

[PBB EBBSB ASSOCIATION.! AUCKLAND, September 16. VaccineThe Local Board of Health has countermanded its order for an inoculated calf from Sydney, pending certain enquiries about to he instituted. The medical men are greatly divided in their opinions. The Ten per-cent ReductionThe Board of Education has decided to discontinue the ten per cent, reduction from salaries from the first of the present month. The New Steamship Company. Ten thousand shares have been applied for in the Auckland and South Pacific Steamship Company. Only 50,000 shares will be issued to the public at pr-sent. Tho following gentlemen have been appointed provi ional directors : Messrs J. M. Clark (Mayor), J. C. Firth, 3. B. Owen, T. Mcrrin, L. D. Nathan, John Chambers, P. Comisky, A. C. Isaacs, C. J. Stone, D H. McKenz’e, A. H. Heather, Hugh P. Anderson, J. L. Wilson, Graves Aitckin, and Dr. Campbell. Sale of the Hot SpringsThe Waiwera hot springs and hotel, belonging to Mr Robert Graham, have been sold to a Southern company for about : 5,000. WELLINGTON, teptember 16. Released. The remainder of the crew and passengers by the steamer Wakatipu were admitted to pratique to-day. Parliamentary. Mr Edward Stafford, solicitor, announces his intention to contest one of the Wellington seats at tho coming election. Boat Ashore. The boat found at Island Bay belongs to the steamer Napier, it having been washed from the davits by a heavy sea on her last trip to Blenheim. TIMAEU, September 16. Sporting. The privileges for Geraldine Eaces realised .£166. Crime. At the criminal sitting of the District Court to-day, Wm. Byers pleaded guilty to a charge of larceny, and was sentenced to three months’ hard labor. Patrick Clancy was found not guilty on a charge of maliciously wounding one Tim McCanliffe. DUNEDIN, September 16. Political. Mr W. Green declines to stand for the c;ty electorates. Captain Baldwin is being asked to stand. Mr Dick will also contest one of the city electorate. Mr Henry Clark is announced for Bruce. / gitatingThe Chamber of Commerce t.i-day carried a resolution of regret at the abandonment of the steam service, but decided to write to companies already in existence with a view of making a beginning in that direction ; also, expressing a wish rather to see £30,000 put on the estimates for ths Otago Central than the line given to a private company. WreckageA settler on the Coast two or three miles from Dunedin, has communicated with the police, having picked np a piece of wreckage, apparently belonging to a coaster, and seen wnat looked like the body of a man in his shirt sleeves in the outer breakers, which wore very heavy. The Drink Interest. The Licensed Victuallers’ Association received the following telegram in reply, today: " The Licensing Bill has passed both Houses of Parliament, and cannot ha withdrawn, even if tho Government were disposed to do :t.— Thos. Dick ” Effect of the Scare. In consequence of the decline of the passenger trade through quarantine restrictions, the Union Company have decided not to run their regular fortnigh'.ly trips via the East Coast to Sydney, but to keep up communication by means of the Hero, plying between Auckland and Sydney, making she round trip about every sixteen da; s. Tho monthly trips of the Wakatipu, via Cook Strait, will not be interfered with. The company’s steamer Manipouri will arrive in January, and the Wairarapa in April.

[FEOM A COBEESFONDENT OF THE ‘'FREES.” i GI.-BOH.NE, September 16. The Joint Stock land Company.

Mr J. M. Dargavillo baa been appointed chairman and resident managing director of tbs East Coast Native Land and Settlement Company. Mr C. A. EeLautour, M.H R*> has been appointed secretary, retiring from his sea- at the Hoard. Messrs Deuniston and Grant, of Oamaru, have been appointed surveyors and engineers to the company. Ins directors attended a large meeting of Natives at lologa Bay on Wednesday, when it was unanimously agreed to place a number of blocks in the company.