NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2648, 2 October 1882, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND.

[PER press association.] AUCKLAND, September 30. At the inquest on John Richards, found dead in bed, a verdict of death from natural causes was returned. To-night “ New Babylon” wsi played by Bland Holt’s company for the first time to s crowded bouse. A deputation of Good Templars waited on the Hon. T. Dick to urge that a special policeman be detailed to enforce the prohibitory clauses of the Licensing Act and to suppress Sunday trading. Mr Dick thought the result would be that policemen and others of the force would neglect euoh duties. The City Council and the clsrgy were also interviewed. The former wished to get a site at the bsxk of the hospital, and the latter to prevent the operation of the Contagious Dieeases Act. The replies indicated that Mr Dick was favorable to the views of the depu tation.

WELLINGTON, October 1. A fatal accident occurred here at 8 30 last night. A lad named Frederick Williams, aged fourteen, employed in Towersey’s bakery shop, was proceeding to his home at Newtown by the eight o’clock tram. Ho was accompanied by his father, and both were on the second platform of the first carriage. When nearly opposite St, Mark's Church, ia Sussex square, a sudden jerk threw yor. ■" Williams off, and he fell undo? the second carriage, both wheels of which passed over him. From the way he fell the wheels passed from the left shoulder r.crojs on to the right leg, causing terrible injuries. Ho was removed to the hospital, but di-d almost immediately after his arrival there. Immediately the accident waa obrerved the tram was stopped, and the carriage had to bo lifted before the lad could be extricated. No blame whatever it attributed to the tram officials. Aa inquest, of courto, will be held. The comet was very brilliant this morning. It was direct east at 4.40 a m., at an altitude at that time of about 25 degrees. GRBYMOUTH, October 1.

The Customs return* for September were—£24s2; that for the corresponding month in 1831 was £3227. Gold duty, £46J ; beer duty, £46, The revenue for the last quarter was £8046, and for the corresponding quarter last year £7627. DUNEDIN, October 1. The Grand Dodge of the Australasia 1.0.Q.T. will hold a session in Dunedin aboui November the 28ad. The local bodies are taking steps to secure the City Council Chambers to hold the sittings in. The Union Company’s Wairarapa went on an excursion trip yesterday outside the heads, with the Dunedin staff of the company and their friends. INVEEOABGILL, September 30. The breadth sown in grain tnis season in Southland is reported to be bo largo as to be scarcely credible' by those who have any knowledge of the district. Dales* some mile* of eidinga are laid down at the Invercargill ctation and at Bluff there will bo serious black after harvest. At this station all marshalling of trains and sorting of traffic is dene on the main lines, the siding accommodation being that laid down for the trade about ten year* ago, and now utterly inadequate. [t’BOM THB “jPBESa”] WELLINGTON, f eptember 30. The complete Customs returns for the quarter and the financial half-yeer, which ends to-day, will not be available tor a i’cw days, but 1 hear, on very pood authority, that »o far as can be gleaned from advance information to hand, the return* bid fair to come well up to the average, and to compare favorably with preceding years. It must bf borne in mind, however, that one or two ships, arriving in the colony a few days earlier or

Inter mr.y completely turn t’no scale of comparison os between one quarter and another. The Hinemoa, on her return from Kelson to-morrow, goes to Lyttelton, to fetch thirty long sentence priaaeia !o Wellington, It u intended to employ them on the works in connection with the new centre! prison, now in course of erection on the hill locally known at Mount Cook.

From inquiries made it is considered certain that there was no design on the part of Wi Parata to effect by stratagem the release of Ta Whiti and Tohn, when ho planned the little trick which led to the late frasat between the Parihaki chiefs and their custodian, dome suspicion of this kind was first enter* tained, r.s it is notorious that Wi Parata has from the first made himself very busy about She West Coast difficulty, and ii will be remembered that it was he who strove so hard to delay or defeat the Peace Preservation Bill oi last session hy endeavoring to obtain a hearing for Te Whiti and I'ohu by counsel at the Bar of the House. He is without question a deep and knowing Maori, but no donbt seems to exist as to his hona fides on the present occasion.