NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2388, 28 November 1881, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND.

[PHB PRESS ASSOCIATION.] AUCKLAND, November 26. The Noble Red Man. At the Wesleyan District Meeting the Eev. Thos. Buddie, whe had visited the Lake district, described the state of Natives about Botorua as nearly, or quite, neglected, and having at present no Christian ordinances, they were, to a deplorable extent, victims of intemperance. The newspapers lately published tho fact that two Natives had been mysteriously found drowned ia a warm spring one morning. There was no mystery about tho matter. He had seen one of these victims late on the previous evening maddened with drink. Everywhere in the district the Maoris were levying black mail and spending the cash in drink. New York Direct TradersThe Kangaroo line of vessels has commenced running direct from New York to Auckland. Two are on the way out, and a third will be placed on the berth in January. PoliticalMr Alexander Fleming is out for City West. Very Interesting News. Tho meet of the Pakuranga Hunt Club was indifferent as regards attendance. Dangers of Night Courting. Thomas Doonan, butcher of the steamer Hero, late last night went to visit his sweetheart, a domestic servant at Feathorstone, North Shore. Failing an entrance, he fell asleep on the verandah and, being mistaken for a burglar, got badly maltreated by the inmates of the house before the mistake was discovered. His arm is stated to be broken. DrownedA man named Bartlett was drowned at Fitzroy Harbor, Great Barrier. On Thursday a lunatic being conveyed from Mercury Bay to the Auckland Lunatic Asylum, jumped overboard and was drowned, NEW PLYMOUTH, November 27. Discovery of a Skeleton. Some Danes, while felling bush near Stratford, discovered the skeleton of a man, the back of the skull appearing to have been broken in with some blunt instrument. WELLINGTON, November 26. LegalThe argument in Brogden and Son v the Queen has been concluded and a decision reserved. Smytho v the Queen, another similar case, was partly argued. The Caswell Sonnd Marble. Mr McKay, of the Gelogical Department, who was sent to report on the Caswell Sonnd Marble Company’s property, has sent in his report. It shows that the marble consists of three different varieties, of which one is good white statuary marble, and that there is every prospect that a marketable article will be produced if the quality is equal to the samples shown. KUMAEA, November 26. Political. Mr Edwin Blake is the third candidate for Kumara electoral district. TIMAEU, November 27. The Premier. The Premier arrived yesterday morning, and proceeds to Dunedin to-morrow. More Wreckage Ashore.

Large quantities of wreckage still continue to bo washed ashore on the beach south of Ximaru. This morning the top of a deckhouse, of American pine, 12ft by XO't, was picked up, together with the turned posts of a bed, side-light boards, a quantity of light boards painted white and blue, and some cabin fittings. They may possibly be part of the England’s Glory, wrecked at the Bluff, [from: the own correspondent op the “ PRESS.”] WELLINGTON, November 27. I understand that the Judicature Commission concluded their work yesterday, and sent in their final report to the Government last night, together with two draft Bills, embodying in legislative form the recommendation of the Commission. I hear that the report proceeds mainly on the lines already indicated as probable, namely, in a direction of materially simplifying and shortening judicial procedure in all the Law Court, and also enlarging their equity jurisdiction and reducing coats to b minimum,