NEW ZEALAND.

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

NEW ZEALAND.

[per press association.] AUCKLAND, May 5, The City Council passed a vote of thanks to Sir Arthur Gordon for throwing open Government House grounds to tho public. The demand for sawn dressed timber, both locally and from Sydney, is so great, that many mills here are working night and day. A private cablegram received, says Hargis, the levanter, was arrested at Adelaide. It is ascertained that over £BOOO, deposited by him in the Colonial Bank, Auckland, was drawn by his wife in gold a few days before his disappearance. At a meeting of the Agricultural Association, the report showed that the year’s receipts were £666, and that the excess of assols over liabilities was £1355. The health officer reports 100 cases measles during tho past month. Scarlet fever is declining. NEW PLYMOUTH, May 5. In tho Supreme Court, John Young Henry was found guilty of indicting a wound on the head under great provocation. Sentenced to one month’s hard labor. Te Oil, on a charge of stealing at Rahstu, was discharged. It is reported here that a man named Clemens Ford, who was trampled upon by a horse at Opucake on Wednesday, died yesterday.

WELLINGTON, May 5. A meeting of the Nuw Zealand Biflo Aesoelation was held this evening at the Chamber of Commerce. His Worship the Mayor in the chair. The question of holding the next competition meeting was fully discussed. A large and influential committee was formed for the purpose of eliciting information as to the suitability of Wellington, to be submitted to the Council of the Association. The committee includes most of the leading volunteers and prominent citizens. The Hon. Mr Bryce returned to Wellington last evening. Eour oases are set down for hearing at the sitting of the Supreme Court under the Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Act on the 15 th inst.

The United Alpine Company's (Lyell) return for nine days is 520 ounces of amalgam from 313 tons of stone. GBEYMOUIH, May 5.

A shocking accident occurred in the quarry this afternoon. While Patrick Foggerty and Biohard Owen were clearing away the result of a shot, a flake of stone weighing about 5 cwt. fell, striking Owen on the side of the head, aud severing his left arm between the elbow and the wrist. Foggerty was wounded in the skull, and otherwise much bruised. There ore no hopes of Owen’s recovery. Foggerty’ssymptoms are morefavorable. Both were steady men, -with wives and families. They were taken to the hospital. TIMABU, May 5. Preliminary inquiry into the wreck of the Duke of Sutherland was concluded to day. The evidence is to be forwarded to the Marine Board. Nothing new transpired except that the vessel had been sounded three hours before she struck, and was than perfectly dry. OAMAEU, May 5.

Mr C. Dodge’s Lily beat Mr J. McDonald’s Azalia, and won the All-aged Stakes of the Coursing Club. DUNEDIN, May 5.

At Gatlin's river, a little boy, the son of Mr Muller, was drowned by fulling out of a flat-bottomed boat. The contract for the erection of a new railway station at Timarn has been let to John MoOombe, of Oamaru, for £3498 15s 4d.

About thirty gentlemen, including the representatives of various insurance companies, went by special train to Moegiel today. The object of the visit was to inspect the new carding and spinning room just erected, and to fix the rate for the new insurance policy, A number of speeches wore made, &c., and it was stated that, although the machinery was working night and day, it was unable to keep pace with the demand for the productions. A new bridge over the Taieri Eiver, on the main road line, is proposed, at a cost of £BOOO. The Government will be asked to contribute the cost. INVB ECAEQILL, May 5. The resignation of Mr Qoyen, Inspector of Schools for the Southland district, was to day announced to the Education Board, and accepted. A' strong motion was passed expressive of the Board’s regret at losing Mr Goyen’s services. Applications are to be invited for the vacant office. The Government schooner Kekeno has re. cently visited the west coast of btowart’s Island, but could not see any wreckage or signs of the missing ship Min-y-don. The Kekeno will shortly visit the Auckland Islands. Great complaints are made of the scaroity of trucks on the Southland section of railways. , _ At a meeting of the Chamber of Commerce to-day, a committee was appointed to draw up reasons, for submission to both Houses of Parliament, why the Bluff harbor should be the first and lust port of call for any line of steamers between Great Britain and New Zealand, subsidised by the Colonial Government. It was pointed out that, in addition to cargo both going and coming, Southland had now a coalfield connected with the Bluff harbor by rail, and that consequently steamers could very easily coal there. One of the members pointed out that, in view of the obstacles Nature had provided to steamers entering Port Chalmers or Dunedin, it was quite possible Lyttelton and the Bluff would be the only Middle Island ports to be visited.