NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2376, 14 November 1881, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND.

I FEB FBBSS ASSOCIATION.] AUCKLAND, November 12. Sir George GreySir Geo. Grey's address to the city east eleotoro has been definitely fixed for Monday. Brewers BewareThe police have seized several 28-gallon casks of beer without a duty stamp affixed. They were issued from the Waikato Brewery. Scholastic Intelligence has been received from England of the appointment of Mr Charles Brown, 8.A., Oxford, a classical honor man, to the head-mastership of the Auckland College, at a salary of £7OO and capitation fees. Political. The Working Men's Political Association bring out Mr Thwaites for City north. Mr J. Sheehan left for tho Thames this afternoon to proseoute his canvass. The English Eleven. The English cricketers arrived from San Francisco by the Australia, and proceeded on to Sydney by her. On completing the Australian tour they will return to New Zealand, playing in Auckland some time next February. They played a series of successful matches in the Western States of America. PATEA, November 12. Action against a Newspaper.

Mr W. Dale, junior, auctioneer, and an active politician, commenced a criminal proceeding against Edward Houghton, proprietor of the "Mail," for publishing an alleged malicious and defamatory libel by reporting a conversation he had with a ratepayer, which damaged his chance of election to the Mayoralty. Mr Dale denied the conversation. The ratepayer was in Court to swear to it as substantially true. The investigation in the R.M. Court occupied two days. After the prosecutor's case olosed, the defendant, who conducted his own case, made an address, alleging reasonable grounds to believe that the alleged libel was true, that it related to an important publio matter, and being justified by the occasion there was no malice. The magistrates then dismissed tho case, without requiring evidence for the defence.

WANGANUI, November 12.

Mr Ballance Speaks.

Mr Ballance delivered a second address to the electors last night. He referred to the telegraphio report of his first speech, and said that his views on the property tax had been misrepresented. Ho said that he adopted the machinery of the property tax to arrive at the principles of the land tax, and to go further by making the tax on land progressive. He opposed the sale of the railways, and advocated the completion of main lines. He said that the question which dwarfed all this was the disposal of Crown and Native lands. Mr Ballance received an unanimous vote of confidence. WELLINGTON, Novembor 12. A Try-on. At tho District Court, in the case Pownall v the Caswell Marble Company, claim £lO5, for commission on the sale of shares, judgment was given for £2O. The Wrecked Ship Fern Glen. The Fern Glen, Captain Rubb, wrecked at Oregon, left this port on 22nd August under charter to the New Zealand Company, to load wheat at Oregon. Magisterial Changes. Mr Watt, R.M., retires on a pension. Mr Robinson, R.M., Naßeby, takes also the Oamaru duty, and Mr Beswick, R.M., Lyfctelton, is to add Ashburton to his district. A Carpenters' LeagueA large meeting of carpenters here denied the statements in the local press that there is any scarcity of skilled labor in their trade here. DUNEDIN, November 12. The Roll. The complete roils show 1550 electors for Dunedin central, 1395 for Dunedin Eaßt, 1220 for Dunedin South, 1389 for Dunedin West, [ and 746 for Caversham.

legal. The Otago case for the Appeal Court is that of Connor v Mackay, and for the Divorce Court Hornby v Hornby and Morgan; Goldstein v Golds! ein and Aubrey, decrees nisi ; Barley v Barley, decree absolute. BLUFF, November 13. Marine Inquiry. The inquiry into the loss of the barque England's Glory was oonoluded at 10 p.m. on Saturday, before Captains Thomson (Dunedin), Ellis, and Hy. McOnlloch, R.M. The captain's and officers' certificates were all returned. Pilot Thompson, who was in oharge, could only account for the accident by the vessel not paying off, and supposed something was wrong with the stering gear. Junior Pilot McDonald stated that he believed a counter current running along the shore prevented the vessel's head paying off with the flood tide, and wind on the port quarter, although the ruddor appeared to him in the boat not to be hard up. The decision of the Court will be given on Monday.