NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2660, 16 October 1882, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND.

[MB FBBH ASSOOIAriOZTj THAMES, October 16.

It was resolved, at a meeting of representatives of the looal bodieß, to form a company to be oalled the Thames Valley Bailway Company, Limited, under the Joint Stock Companies Aot, for the construction of a railway from the Thames to Te Aroha, twenty-eight miles, under the Bailway Construction Aot, 1881, with a capital of £150,009 in £1 shares. Ihe Government have promised an ample grant of land for the undertaking. NEW PLYMOUTH, October 16.

No tidings have as yet baen heard of the Lalla Bookh. It is now aboolutsly certain that some serious mishap has befallen the steamer, as she has no 1 - appeared at cither Baglan or Waitara Harbor. Tbe tug Motorua has been ashora on the Worth Spit, Waitara, for the last throe or four days, and is not off yet. NELSON, Oatoberl6 Information has been received by sailing ressel that the brig Wavo, when twenty days out from Dunedin for Auckland in ballast, went ashore in Hardy's Bay, Pelorus Sound. She was seen ashore on Thursday last, and u on the sand, but it is considered that, unless she is favored by specially high spring tides and a favorablo wind, she will become a total wreck.

DUNKDTN, October 16. Jane EliMbeth Gray, twenty-one years of age, attempted to commit suicide at the Ooean Beaoh ye»terdoy. She was observed to plaoe a bottle to hor lips and then dash into the waves. She was reticued with some difficulty and in an exhausted condition. O-i examination at the Hospital no trace of poison was found. No reason is yet ajsigned for the aot. Petitions are in courio of signatura praying the Queen to establish a protectorate over the Hew Hebrides. Patrick Brown (single), liborer, was killed by a fall of earth at tho Mornington tramway works in High street to-day.