NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2429, 18 January 1882, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND.

[pee phbbs association.] AUCKLAND, January 17. The Maori King. The king party at Oraki are spending their time feasting and talking. The boys of the Naval Training School visited Paul's settlement to see the king, and were hospitable entertained. Subscriptions are coming in freely to defray the expense of Tawhaio's reoeption. The gum of £4OO ia expected to be raised. The Mail Ship's Inward Cargo; The schooner Mariner, with the Zealandia's Auckland cargo, has been released from quarantine. The German War Ship. The German war aloop Hobicht has returned from Waiwera, where bail practice and drilling were engaged in. She goes into dock. Adopted Children. Judge McDonald has reoeived several applications for children under the Adoption of Childrens Act passed last session. Signs of Improvement. At a meeting of the Chamber of Commerce a resolution was passed urging the Government to lay double rails on the Waikato railway line as far as Penrose junction. Racing Stock. The racehorses King Qaail, Envy filly, and Clarence, were shipped by the Wanaka for Wellington. TIMARTJ, January 17. Marine Enquiry. A Court of inquiry into the stranding of the City of Cashmere will be held on Friday. It has had to be postponed through the nonarrival of the new magistrate. The cargo of the vessel is being rapidly discharged. The wool is very little damaged. DUSIEDIN, January 17. Perjury Case. In the Police Court to-day, Constabl O'Shea was charged, on the information of Mrs Dupree, with having committed perjury in the Supreme Court in the case of Dupree, the constable oonvioted of fowl stealing, in which O'Shea was the principal witness. The alleged perjury was sought to be established by the fact that the note-book out of which O'Shea read the statement Dupree had made to him when arrested was bought after the date of the arrest, but after some evidence had beenTtaken the prosecutrix asked for a remand in order to make an investigation whether O'Shea was the identical constable to whom the bookseller had sold the notebook. A remand was granted till Thursday. Caution to SealersMark Bayer, master of the ketoh Alpa was charged with killing a seal at the Auckland Islands during the close season. He admitted the offence, but pleaded entire ignorance of the law. He was fined £1 and costs. The Gaming ActThe oharge against R. D. Pirie, hairdresser, of keeping a gaming house and allowing a totalisator to be worked in his shop on the Invercargill races, was alio gone into. The Magistrate reserved his decision on legal points raised by defendant'6 couneel.