NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2428, 17 January 1882, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND.

[PEB PRESS ASBOOIAriOK.] AUCKLAND, January 16. A Wholesale Trader. Frodk. Zane, wholesale laroenist, has been committed for trial. The Maori King’s Visit. Tawhaio and Major Mair, with fifty followers, including the king’s three sons, wife and sister, and leading chiefs of Manubiri, Wahanui and Honora, arrived at Ellerslie station at four o’clock in the afternoon, and were received by the Mayor, Wm. Swanson, M.H.B, and a number of leading citizens. They were presented with a bouquet of dowers, and driven over to Paul’s, at Orakei, where he was welcomed by musketry salute. Two chiefs spoke on Paul’s side, and were replied to by a Kingite chief. At the tangi, Tawhaio went out between the two parties and wept. He will stay at Orakei till the public reception at Auckland on Thursday. A number of northern chiefs arrived to welcome Tawhaio. The railway employes, through Major Mair, invited Tawhaio to attend the railway picnic on Saturday at Hunua, A VeteranJohn Windsor, who died in the hospital, was a marine on the man-of-war which conveyed Napoleon I. a prisoner to St. Helena. WELLINGTON. January 16. The Colonial Great Seal. Some months ago the seal of the colony was found to be worn out, and an application was made to the Home Government for a new one. The new seal reached here in due course, the old one being, as required, sent Home. However, application was made by the New Zealand Government (through his Excellency) to the Secretary for State, asking that the old seal might be returned to the colony as a memento, it being the first seal used in the colonies under representative Government, and it had been sent out with the Constitution Act, 1852. The Home Government agreed to return it, and the seal arrived by last mail, having been slightly defaced, by order of the Queen in Council. Inefficient Audit. It is rumored that a discrepancy of £l5O has been discovered in the accounts of the Wellington City Tramway Company, and that a strict investigation is being made into the matter. The Direct Steam Service. A dispatch has been received from the Agent-General in respect to the establishment of direct steam service. He is negotiating with an eminent shipping firm on the subject, and plans for vessels fitted for the service have been prepared. A conference will bo held between those interested in the service, when the plans and whole proposals on the subject will be discussed, and ho hopes to forward particulars bj» the next mail. The Late PresidentA letter from Mr Blaine to the Foreign Office, conveying an acknowledgment of tele grams of condolence on the death of Fresh dent Garfield, has been received by his Excellency the Governor through the Colonial Office. Mr Blaine, after saying that he had had unfeigned gratification in acknowledging, through the United Slates Legation in London, “the many singularly affecting telegrams’’ that had reached his department, says, “the oneness of the residents of every part of the wide British domain with the family of the dead chief magistrate and with the American

people in their afflicting trial, has touched our hearts very deeply.’' INVEEOABGILL, January 16. Explorers Unsuccessful- • Messrs Hall (solicitor) and Bobertson (surveyor) have returned from Milford Sound. They went with the object of discovering a suitable track between the Sound and Lake Wakatipu, but failed, being unable to penetrate more than a few miles into the interior. Pleasant Travelling. A few days ago a I rim little yacht sailed into Milford Sound. It is called the Asteroid, and is owned and commanded by one or all of three jolly young Englishmen, who are engaged in a cruise round the world. They left the old country some months ago, and their last port of call before reaching Milford was Hobart. After cruising about the Sounds for a week or two, they will probably proceed to Dunedin, and afterwards they go further North.