NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2587, 22 July 1882, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND.

[pee pbbsb association.] AUCKLAND, July2l. Robert Molvor, who was brutally assaulted by a party of bushmen at tho Foresters' Arms, lies in a preoariouo state. Petitions from the Karaoga hape and Grafton districts to be joined to the city were forwarded yesterday to Wellington. So far there is no disposition to get up a counter petition in either district. IT M.S. Nelson is still at tha Bay of Islands, coaling. The schooner Oathana, which left Dunedin for Auckland on June 20 th, haa not since been heard of. Fears ere entertained for her safety. Notwithstanding the excessive rain here there have been no freshes in the bush creeks, and some of the coastal mills are at standstill for material to out up. Higher prices are threatened.

At the inquest on the body of James Young tbe jury returned a verdict that death resulted from excessive drinking. John Thomas, a seaman of the cutter Bose, is missing. He was last seen going down the railway wharf apparently intoxicated. Two boys named Knox pleaded guilty to ten larcenies. The younger was sent to the Kohimarama Industrial School, and the elder to Mount Eden Gaol for six months, being a skilled criminal with numerous convictions. The mission schooner Southern Cross called here for repairs. In cruising amongst the islands her propeller suddenly dropped off. A laborer named Michael Breen, finding William Creighton in his house under what he regarded as equivocal circumstances, ordered him out, and on refusal look an are and inflicted dangerous wounds on Creighton’s forehead. _ ~ Captain Sinclair, of the schooner Sybil, and Captain Berrick, of the barque India, have been called upon to their disgust to pay £lO poll tax on their Chinese cooks respectively. The schooner Sybil brings a cargo of rice from Yokohama. It is in first-class condition. McDonald, a settler of Waipipi, petitions the Crown Lands Board for compensation for loss sustained through the encroachment of the West Coast sandhills on his property. The Board referred the claim to the Government, which declined to entertain it. In some places sand has drifted a mile and a half inland. NAPIER, July 21.

Hall’s Comedy Company concluded a highly successful though short season hero to-night. They hare had better houses than any comedy company in the town for a long time. The theatre to-night was crammed. They leave to-morrow by Kotomahana for Wellington, and thence to Wanganui. DUNEDIN, July 21.

The weather hero to-day has been very wretched. There has been heavy rain, with a strong sou-wester. The soundings on the bar to*day show that 19£t at low water have been maintained, notwithstanding the recent heavy sea. An eight-roomed house in the course of erection at the suburb of St. Clair was burned down to night. The supposed cause was the ignition of lime, lying near the premises. Insurance, £IOO in the National. The “ Star ’’ to-night, speaking of the delay in the passage of the Otago Harbor Board Bill through the House, says—“ In view of the possible contingency we understand that a special meeting of the Board has been called for Monday to consider the necessity and prudence of suspending at once all operations, both on the bar and in the upper and lower herb or.”