NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2391, 1 December 1881, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND.

[PEB PEEBS ABSOCIATIOK.] AUCKLAND, November 30. Arson. Detective Jeffrey baa returned from Whangarei, being unable to discover the perpetrator of the recent attempt to burn down idr Farmer’s boarding-house at Kamo. There cannot be the slightest doubt that incendiarism was attempted. Proposed Humane Society.

At the Harbor Board meeting a resolution was passed that it was desirable to form a Royal Humane Society for New Zealand. The secretary was instructed to correspond with the other Harbor Boards in the colony with a view to co-operation. He was also instructed to communicate with the Royal Humane Society in London, asking information as to rules and procedure, and whether the proposed society could be affiliated with the Royal Humane Society. Aids to Temperance. Tenders are out for the erection of the Auckland Coffee Palace. It will be a splendid building, four storeys high, near the new railway station site. Robbery Aboard Ship. Thomas Petty was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment for robbing a comrade, John Rowe, of the Hauraki Engineers, on, board the Rotomahana. Incautious Use of Explosives. Mr Wade, the contractor for the tramway for Guthrie and Larnach’s Company, at Manukau Heads, and a man named Ormsby, wore severely injured by a shot exploding while being drilled out in a blast which missed fire. New Synagogue. The Jews are taking steps to erect a new Synagogue. WELLINGTON, November 3C. Constabulary Movements. No. 5 Company of Constabulary has been transferred to Pungarehu. Captain Messenger was sent in charge. The Rahotu camp is entirely dismantled. Nos. 1,3, 4, and 6 Companies are now stationed at Parihaka, Railway ExtensionThe Vernon contract, being an extension of the Pioton and Blenheim line towards the ■oath, has been accepted. The successful tenderers are Messrs O'Malley and Eaeted, of Christchurch, £4270 10s. There were fifteen tenders, ranging as high as £7091 5s 7d. GREYMOUTH, November 30. Local Eevenue: The revenue collected at this port daring November was £2350 14a fid, being a decrease of £BO 2s fid as compared with the corresponding month last year. The gold duty was £730 12s lid, and the beer duty (excise), £63 10s fid. Emigration during the month was equal to thirty-six statute adults. TIMAEU, November 30. Vital StatisticsForty births, eight deaths and nine marriages were registered for the Timaru district this month.