NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2437, 27 January 1882, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND.

[PBB PBESS ASSOCIATION.] AUCKLAND, January 26, Shipping. Sailed —Hero, for SydneyAccidental Death. William Trimble, bushman, was killed by a fall of earth at Dargaville, Kaipara. Satisfactory. At the annual meeting of the Working Men’s Olub, the report showed that over £2OO of the debt had been paid off during the year. The debt remaining is £lB7, and the members number 178, The Fumigation QuestionThe District Engineer and the Chief Postmaster have been appointed to report on the beat methods of speedy fumigation of the mails. It is probable that a hulk will be purchased for the purpose. Re-forming. A new volunteer company will be formed on the disbandment of the Scottish, and will be called “ The City Guards.” The Maori KingThe reception committee intend inviting Tawhaio and chiefs to stay for the regatta. Holiday. The Mayor is to be asked to proclaim a half holiday during the English cricket match, WELLINGTON, January 26. New Industry. Messrs Brogden and Sons 9 cement works at Colling wood are now rapidly approaching completion. The buildings are almost finished, and the proprietors expect to have everything in full swing shortly. The machines will be capable of turning out thirty tons per week. Considerate Creditors. A meeting of the creditors of Captain M<> Intyre was held to-day for the purpose of assenting to a deed of arrangement, whereby the Colonial Bank took over all the 9 and agreed to pay to unsecured creditors Ss6u

in the £. Prior to the meeting several creditors expressed the greatest sympathy with the debtor, and a suggestion that they should return the dividend to him was unanimously approved of. The deed was assented to, after which a resolution was proposed to the effect that the Back be requested to hand over the dividend to the debtor. Mr Brandon said a better way would be to draw up an order to the Bank to that effect signed by the creditors. This was done at once, all present signing the document, and Mr Brandon on behalf of the Bank said they would pay on all debts_ provable on the 7th of January. Mr Levin said that he and others would endeavor to get other creditors to sign the document, and on the part of the creditors present asked Mr Drake, as representing the Bank, to use his influence with the directors to get something returned by them. Captain Mclntyre had handed over everything he possessed to them, and was beginning life again at an advanced ago after an honorable career of twenty years. Mr Drake said he would convey the wishes of the creditors to his directors, end use his influence to have them carried out. TIMABU, January 26. Wreck Sale. The hull of the ship City of Cashmere was sold to-day for £l3O, The purchaser intends to re-launch her. Harbour Improvements. At a committee meeting of the Harbor Board to-day the tender of Hector Mackenzie, of Dunedin, was accepted for 210 ft extension of wharf. The Harvest. Harvest operations are now in full swing. The weather of late has been wet, but favorable to growing crops. DUNEDIN, January 26, The Gas Works. The Dunedin gasworks have recently been greatly improved, and now are the most complete in the colony. The additions to the plant and buildings have cost about £50,000, and gasometers alone cost £BOOO. Inspection of the Dredge. Crowds of people have visited the new dredge to-day, which is lying at Dunedin wharf. She is a self- propelling twin screw hopper dredger, and will carry 1250 tons of spoil, and is of 130 nominal horse power and built of iron. She is capable of lifting 350 tons of mud, gravel, sand or free soil per hour from a depth of thirty feet below the water level. The contractor has to maintain the dredger in substantial repair for twelve months from the date of sailing. She will require considerable repairs now, and it will probably be six weeks before she will be fit for work. AccidentA boy named Tubman, nine years old, fell down a bank near Dowling street steps last Sunday evening whilst picking berries, and died in the Hospital to-day from the injuries received.