NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2644, 28 September 1882, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND.

I fee pares association.) AUCKLAND, September 28, The Cambridge Land Court has commenced its sitting. An enormous tract of land will he brought into Court, amounting to some 600,000 or 700,000 aoree, extending in the centre of the island from Maungatautau to Lake Taupo, and including the Waotu district. The applicants are chiefs of the Ngatiraukawa tribe. There will be considerable opposition to the passing through the Court of these large blocks of land on the part of certain of tho Native owner?, who desire to part with the land only in small pieces. MABTERTON, September 28, The Bov, Mr Isitt, who has been recently advocating strict enforcement of the Licensing Act on Sundays, has been subjected to a dattardly outrage, A bottle of powder plsced under his buggy in the stable at night exploded, but did only slight damage. The rev. gentleman offers £5 reward for the conviction of the offender.

NAP MB, September 28. The inmate, of the Lunatic Asylum number twenty-eight, namely, seventeen males and eleven females. There is sleeping accommodation only for six females ami sixteen males. Five females and two males are o bo removed to Nelson next Saturday. Ahe asylum is only fit for temporary aooommooatioo, and better arrangements are urgent y needed. , Tne ship Mataura, now loading at L ° nd ° n > will load frozen meat at Napier during the ensuing season, , _ D KUMAEA, September 28. George Mansfield, a miner, yesterday slipped into the sludge channel, and waa washocl out to the mouth, a distance of 3300 feet. He was immediately rescued from the drop, and taken to the Hospital, where ho was found to be much out and bruised, but no bones broken. Fortunately the men on tne various claims were changing shifts at the time, or the consequences must have heen fatal. WELLINGTON, September 28. The following gentlemen have been appointed as assessors under the Property Assessment Act, 1879, and Amendments for the Canterbury Property Assessment Districts, but the list is not yet completed James Campbell, of Christchurch ; Edward Samuel Latter, of Duvauchelle’s Bay ; John Reynolds Willoox, of Lyttelton ; John Whitelaw, Jasper Pyne O’Oallaghan, and Edmund Tipping, all of Christchurch j Charles William Comer, of Spreydou ; John Taylor, of Templeton ; Eobeit I>. Puller, of Upper Ashburton j Bobert James Dickenson, of Oust; Charles Edward Dudley and Edward Beveli, both of Kaiapoi ; William Anthony Benn, of Amberley ; William Thomas Champion Mills, of Heathooto; Max Whatman and Bobert Aherne, both of Bangiora.