NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2520, 6 May 1882, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND.

[ PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. | AUCKLAND, May 6. Whon Hargis was arrested the sum of £175 in cash aud a draft of £SOO was found on him. The first sod of tho Hamilton-Oambridge railway was turned y.sterday by Mayor Kuox, of Hamilton. OPUNAKE, May 6. The stone-work of some bridges towards New Plymouth has been washed away, owing to heavy floods, partially stopping the traffic. Tho Taranaki coach bad to return here. At tho inquest held yesterday on the body of Ford, a verdict was returned that he came by his death, while lying down in the open air, through a cart-horse treading on his abdomen. The deceased was a bricklayer, and well known in Wanganui. NEW PLYMOUTH, May 6, In the Supreme Court here Joseph Gardiner Parnell is being tried for indecent assault. WELLINGTON, May 6. At a meeting of tho shareholders ye.terday of the Wellington Meat Freezing Company, it was decided at once to order machinery. REEFTON, May 6. Mr T. S. Weston addreisad a meeting o his constituents at Reefton last night, and re oeived a unanimous vote of cor.fid-noe. DUNEDIN, May 6 The Hon. Mr Oliver, in receiving a deputation of the committee of the Benevolent Institution, said ho would use his influence to get a commission of inquiry appointed. Henry Sayers, a seaman, aged twenty-four, who shipped on board tho City of Lucknow hero last December, was drowned on the passage to Oregon. His parents reside near Dunedin. (from oub correspondent. I ALEXANDRA, May 6. I have counted the buildings at Whatiwhatihoo. There are 154 whares and tents, mostly the latter, exclusive of the big runanga house. Averaging them at seven persona each—gives 1078 natives. About 100 occupy tho big house, and 200 additional arrivals make roughly 1400 people, which I believe to be about the number present. Fifty Ngatipukawos arrived on horseback this morning. It is still wet. Nothing will be done before Monday. .