AUSTRALIAN.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2447, 8 February 1882, Page 3

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MELBOURNE, February 7. A Right Step. In reply to a deputation which waited ( upon him to-day. Sir Bryan OTioghlen promised to introduce a Bill next session 1 to provide for the flogging of larrikins. : Bank Dividend. 1 The Bank of Victoria pays a dividend i for the past half-year of 4- per cent. NEW ZEALAND. [FSB PBBBB ASSOOIAITOK.] AUCKLAND, February 7. The English Mail. The Wanaka sailed this forenoon with the Southern English mail. The Cricketers. The English cricketers were passengers by the mail steamer for Sydney. On Xonr. The Premier, Mr Hobbs, M.H.R., and the District Engineer, Mr Hales, left for the North to ascertain the local wants. The Auckland Strike. Fifty of the Union Sash and Door employe* who were locked out have got work, ( some in the Auckland Timber Company’* and other mills. A Good Resolve. The Government have wired that they will probably take over the Home for Neglected Children, transferring the boys to training ship* and devoting the home to girls. Where is the Canterbury Share? The mail steamer brought a quantity of quail and grouse for the Auckland Acclimatisation Society. Meeting of Parliament. Messrs DeLautour and McDonald, M.H R.’fl, telegraphed to Mr Moss requesting him to add their names to the petition for an early meeting of the Assembly, which Sir Q. Grey presented to the Premier on Saturday. A Cleanly City. 23,000 admissions have been registered to the city baths since tho opening of the bathing season. Sympathetic Engineers. At a meeting of the Society of Amalgamated Engineers a resolution was passed expressing sympathy with the Union Sash and Door locked out employes, and offering pecuniary assistance. Delegates from various trades were appointed to aid them in resisting the infringement of the eight hours system. The Smallpox Scare. Stanger has been released from quarantine. He was simply sufferingjfrom eruption of the skin. The tree name of the man who died of amallpox was Patrick Finnioan, who belonged to Springboro, Pennsylvania. GISBORNE, February 7. A Large Sale. The sale of the Whataupoko block by order of the Registrar of the Supreme Court, took place to-day. This is tha land over which an important trial took place in Napier, and subsequently in the Appeal Court, Wellington. The sale was in default nf payment of principal and interest, Mr Perceval Barker bought it in for £15,000. WELLINGTON. February 7. Mail Movements: The Wellington and Southern portion of the San Francisco mail, which arrived at Auckland by the City of Sydney last evening, was transhipped into the Wanaka, which left Onehunga at 11.20 a.m. to-day for Wellington, via Taranaki. She is expected to get away from Taranaki early to-morrow morning, and will arrive here about nine o'clock to-morrow night. The steamer Penguin, which goes South, will be detained until tho arrival of the Wanaka, and as soon as the mails can be transhipped will leave for Lyttelton. Smuggling. John Edwards, steward of the ship Waitara, was arrested to-night on a charge of smuggling four boxes of cigars. DUNEDIN, February 7. The Dunedin Town Clerk. At the City Council to-night the following report by the finance committee was adopted : “ In reference to a communication received by his Worship the Mayor from Mr J. M. Massey hereto attached, your committee recommend that Mr Massey having complied with the resolution of tho Council, dated 12th October, 1881, be reinstated in his office of town clerk; but finding from tho experience of the past three months that his services can, without detriment to municipal business, be diipensed with, that he receive formal notice to this effect, and be paid one month’s salary instead of the usual notice, in addition to salary from date of suspension." Applications will be invited for the office at once. mmm _ 1 [FEOiI TUB OWN" COEBBSFONDBNT OF THE ' “ PBKBS.] 1 WELLINGTON, February 7. , The Mail Again. It was officially announced this afternoon

I that the WVnaka, which left Maunkau atr J aaon to-day with the Southern portion of the: San Franoifioo mail, would go round by Nelson and Fiotoc, and consequently would not reach Wellington- and the South mi Thursday and Friday respectively. Later this evening, however, tins has been changed, , an d lam now informed on authority that tha Wanaka will come on direct from Taranaki to Wellington, probably arriving here late tomorrow evening, and reaching Canterbury and Otago on Thursday, Operatic. (The new opera, “Mignon," has been a remarkable success here, drawing the'greatest crowds of the season. Gubernatorial and Ministerial Movements. I hear that hie Excellency the Governor purposes paying another lengthened visit to Canterbury, and will probably leave Wellington in the course of a few days. The Colonial Treasurer also contemplates an early visit to the South Island. Major Atkinson will most likely start next week for Lyttelton, and will make a complete tour of the island, remaining absent from Wellington about a month. The Premier is not expected back in Wellington for another fortnight. Ail the members of the Cabinet will, it is understood, assemble in Wellington next month to consult as to programme for the approaching session of Parliament. The Revenue. I hear, on good authority, and from variona wall informid quarters, that there is every prospect of an excellent budget. January and February (so far) have been even "bitter periods for revenue than the previous nine months. Persons best qualified to judge anticipste that the Customs will be nearly, if not quite, £60,300 above the estimats, and that January also will show very well,, although the letter are necessarily trenched npoc fay the postal revenue, now that postage stamps can be used for receipts,. _<fe o. Tha property tax is already coming in most satisfactorily, and bids fair to exhibit even better results proportionally than laat year. The only item of revenuelikely to fall short of the estimate is the railways,, but this was palpably over-esti-f mated from the first, and it is feared that theless favorable grain harvest likely to besepnred this year will cause the receipts to be • still _ further behind. At present the gross receipts do not seem likely to materially exceed £870,000, and there is hardly the remotest prospect of their very closely approaching the estimated £310,000. Fortunately the working expenses have been more, under the estimate than the receipts, so that the not profit still promises, to be very satisfactory. ■Tie Maori’ Slug. Borne little fear is expressed by those best acquainted, with Native peculiarities that a _ little- too much fuss has been made with Tawhaio, and that it has not been clearly euaugh conveyed to him that ho can never be more than a mere subject of the Queen. Croakers predict more future disappointment from this cause,, as they are apprehensive that Tawhaio’a ideas of “ a little time ” may prove much too wide to suit European aspiration for rapid progress. On the other band, I am assured that a very favorable effect hes been produced, and that not only has the thin edge of the wedge been driven in the Eingite isolation, but that the wedge has been driven well in. Mr Bryce will very likely go North to see Tawhiao aft or Mr Hall's return to Wellington.