NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2544, 3 June 1882, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND.

f.PBB PBBB3 ABBOOIATIOK.J AUCKLAND, Jane 2. Patrick O’Hara, ex-detective of the Auckland police, petitions the Minister of Justice in tho case of his son James, fined by the Justices for an assault on a Chinaman, At the annual meeting of the Chamber of Commerce, Dr. Campbell was elected chairman for the ensuing year, and L. D. Nathan vice-chairman. A sailor, belonging to tho Annie Milba' k, fell into the harbor last night while in liquor and was rescued by a Maori. Two hours later he again fell in, and was rescued a second time. Earo tonga correspondence by the schooner Mora states that Mr Goddofroi, the German Consul at Tahiti, went over to Faratea last month to settle some slight difference between German subjects and Natives there, and while in uniform was subjected to gross insult by the latter. He had to ask protection from a French man-of-war lying in the harbor, and his wishes wore granted. At same time Mr Goddefroi chartered a schooner, and sent to Samoa with instructions to the German consulate, when it was promised that two war vessels would bo sent immediately to put matters straight, and settle the high-handed dealing of the Natives. DUNEDIN, June 2. A cose of a somewhat painful character was heard at tho E.M. Court to-day. A wellknown solicitor, Mr J. H. Harris, sued a client for a small debt which bis son, also a solicitor, had collected. The son declared his father had given him authority to do so, but the father declared there was not a word of truth in the statement. The magistrate gave judgment for the plaintiff, on the ground that the defence must prove that tho person collecting had authority to do so. He said he placed belief in the statement of the plaintiff. It is understood there are a number of cases of a similar character, and it is not improbable tho matter will bo further heard of in Court.

Tho question with regard to discontinuing the Servants’ Home and establishing an orphanage was considered at a public meeting this aftenoon, and remitted to a committee to obtain fuller information for a second meeting. A new boat for the Union Steamship Company was launched to-day at Port Chalmers, where she has been put together. She is built entirely of milled steel, and was turned out in Messrs Denny Bros.’ yards. She was named the Waihi by Mrs George McLean. She is 80ft long, 18ft wide, and BEfc depth of hold, and is intended for the river trade in Fiji, where she will act as a feeder to the company's boats trading between Fiji and this colony. His Worship the Mayor has consented, in answer to a requisition, to convene a public meeting of the citizens for Wednesday next to consider the desirability of holding the next colonial prize meeting in or about Dunedin. INYBKCAEGILL, June 2. A strange discovery has been made at some sandhills near Waikawa beach, a few days ago. Two gentlemen living in the locality discovered a great heap of skeletons that had been uncovered by the recent winds. Some are nearly perfect, while others are mixed up in a chaotic mass of heads, hands, feet, arms, legs, &o. It must have been many years since the grave was filled with its ghastly occupants, and it is of course presumed that the remains are those of Natives. The subscriptions to the Timaru disaster fund have not. been so large as was expected, only £23 12s 6d having been collected. Te Whiti and Tohu, who have been sojourning in Invercargill for a day or two, left this morning for Lake Wakatipu.