NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2568, 30 June 1882, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND.

[PEE pebss association.] AUCKLAND, Jane 29. Letters by the mail state that fcir George Arney is recovering from a long and dangerous illness. Three thousand people visited the Nelson to-day. Commodore Erakine and the officers of the Nelson, accompanied by tho Mayor and party, went in cho steamer Tongariro to tho Island of Mctatapu for a day’s shooting Three deer and. other game were shot, the Commodore shooting two deer. The Neieon proceeds /from Auckland to the Bay of Islands to coal, and will take in 800 tons. Gas shares selling Inst week at £lO 5s are now quoted at £B, owing to the importation of electric lighting apparatus. WANGANUI, June 29, Cornelius Dempsey was fined £5, or in default one month’s imprisonment for assaulting his wife. WELLINGTON, June 29. At the inquest on the body of the child Griffiths a verdict of “Accidentally drowned” was given. Mr Bracken, delivers a lecture next month at the Theatre Boyal—subject, “ The Press and its Powers.” QEBYMOUTH, Juno 29. The remains of the man James Paul, who has been missing from Beef ton over a month, were found to day on a shingle bank in the Inangahua river, about five or sir miles from Beefton, where it evidently was deposited by the floods. All the clothes on the body were in a good state of preservation. DUNEDIN, June 29. Tho harbor master reported to day that there was a necessity for increased graving dock accommodation, and the report was forwarded to Mr Maoandrew, as chairman of the dock trust. The new dredge made its second start on the bar to-day, but had to return on account of the heavy sea, from the long continuanoe of which groat delay has been ocoasioned. It is expected tbat three weeks will do all that is required, when once a spell or good weather sets in. The teachers’ conference to-day considered the question of forming a Now Zealand Institute, and it was carried that a general council, to meet in Christchurch during the Ohriatmas vacations, should draw up a constitution for the proposed New Zealand Educational Institute. The conference closed its silting with a conversazione to-night. At the Harbor Board meeting to-day a letter was read from the Now Zealand Refrigerating Company, stating that the company had contracted to deliver from 250 to 280 tons of frozen mutton early in September to a steamer from London at Port Chalmers, and in view of this, asking that the depth c£ water alongside tho wharves there should be increased, to allow a steamer of 2000 tons to load there without touching tho ground, The matter was referred to the works committee. ... Mr James Hume, who has been superintendent of the Lunatic Asylum hero foj eighteen years, but has retired, consequently I upon tho appointment of Dr- Neill as medical superintendent, was to day presented by a number of the public with a tea and coffee service, &o. Mr Hume will open a priv ts asylum near Dunedin. The Benevolent Commission is continuing its sitting. The evidence of inmates to-day was favorable to the management, although

all admitted that since the last inquiry the food had improved. An outside witness stated that he had frequently seen the manager of the institute drunk, and had heard exceedingly disgusting language from him. INVERCARGILL, June 29. Te Whiti and Tohu arrived here this morning. They leave to-morrow by the Stella, and after visiting the West Coast Sounds will proceed to Nelson.