NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2532, 20 May 1882, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND.

(PER PEBSS ASSOCIATION.! AUCKLAND, May 19. A City Council contractor named Kelly has disappeared. He is supposed to have gone in the Ara»ata. The City Council have passed a letter of sympathy to the Mayor of Timaru, and have also opened a subscription list for the sufferers. The Mayor headed it with five guineas, and sixteen guineas were contributed in tho Chamber. The ratepayers of City Bast, by a large majority, voted against tho increase of publicans’ and New Zealand wine licensee. Only one-fifth voted. The Waikatq police are arranging for a raid at Whatiwhatihoe, to capture two Natives, Pakora and Epiha, who shot at McWilliams, a surveyor at Ohinemuri in 1879. It is ascertained that they are lurking at Whatiwhatihoe. At the inquest on the body of Silas 111bonos, a verdict of “Accidental death” was returned, DUNEDIN, May 19 A case came before the Resident Magistrate to day in which several sailors of tho brig Emily sued the captain for wages. These he refused to pay on the ground that the sailors refused to return to Brisbane. The sailors asserted that tho brig was unseaworthy, but the R.M. found that their assertion was a pure fabrication, and gave judgment against them. The amount involved was £7O.

Four long sentenced tradesmen prisoners have been forwarded from here to the central prison at Wellington. Mr O. P. Black reports the sale of the Mabel estate in Southland, 3400 acres, at a satisfactory price, and states that in consequence of the large yield per acre of New Zealand land and the high price of grain Victorians are showing an anxiety to invest in freehold land.

INVERCARGILL, May 19.

A young man named Twait, clerk in the goods office at the railway station, was arrested to-day on the outward Melbourne steamer on a warrant charging him with embezzling £l4O odd, the property of the Government. It is likely other charges will be preferred against him.