NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2517, 3 May 1882, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND.

J.PHB PBBfli ASSOCIATION. J AUCKLAND, May 3. Hone Mushiko, the TeAroha prospector, has gone to Alexandra to interview Tawhaio re prospecting the King country. He says he will prove a payable gold field in four months. The Geistenger Cotnio Opera Company, from the Germania Theatre, New York, are passengers through to Sydney by the next mail steamer. The prima donna is Madame Geistenger. She is engaged to give a hundred performances in the Australian colonies. At a meeting of the Auckland Gas Company, an issue of 3000 shares at £5 each were sanctioned. The consumption of gas in the city is estimated at fifty-six million feet per annum. WELLINGTON. May 2. The Hon. Mr Bolleston is expected to return from the South to-morrow, and the Hon. Mr Bryce from Wanganui on Thursday. Sir William Eox, Commissioner under the West Coast Settlement Act, will visit here in the course of a few days. The landlord of the Princess Hotel was to-day mulcted in a fine for Sunday trading. At the inquest held at Masterton on the charred remains of Smith, his wife and two children, yesterday, the jury returned an open verdict. A skull, supposed to be Smith’s, was found ; his wife’s skull is missing. The Emerald leaves here for England on Thursday next. DUNEDIN, May 2.

Mr Connell, of Connell and Moodie, has drafted an amendment on the present Land Act for presentation to the ensuing Parliament. Its main feature is the substitution of the ballot system for auction in the sale of deferred payments lands. Wright, Stephenson and Co. to-day sold a draft of eighty draught and other horses from Qrigg’s Locgbeach estate. The prices realised are considered highly satisfactory. All offered were sold at prices ranging from £l3 to £42.

The weather now shows signs of clearing up. No damage is reported, though up to noon to day the rain was constant. The train on the Outram branch lino, T&ieri plain, wag unable to get through this evening, the line being under water in some places to the depth of about a foot. Some twenty laborers on the reclamation contract for the railway station site are on strike for 7s a day. They have been offered 6s 61.

At the Police Court to-day, a married woman named Eliza Whittel was charged with the theft of £l6 worth of jewellery from a private bouse in the daytime. She want to the house, the door of which was open, and walked in. A little girl happened to open the inner door from the back apartments at the moment. The woman asked some question about a house to let. The girl answered it and went back, and the woman before she went away is alleged to have helped herself to jewellery from one of the front rooms. There have been numerous robberies of the same kind. The present ease was remanded. INVERCARGILL, May 3.

It is now suggested that the violent explosion heard recently at Stewart’s Island was caused by the brilliant and large meteorite which passed over this district on the 17th ult,, coming in contact either with the land on Stewart’s Island or water in its vicinity. The licensing district of Oreti has, on the casting vote of the presiding officer, decided for publicans' licenses. In all other forms the ratepayers decided against the issue of new licenses.

At a largely attended public meeting at Winton on Monday resolutione were passed urging the Government to proceed with the construction of the railway from Winton to the Nightcaps, the necessary land in connection therewith having been reserved some time since.