NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2662, 18 October 1882, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND.

[MB PBBSfi AfIBOOIATIOH.] AUCKLAND. October 17,

The crew of the barque Gazelle, recently seized by H.M. Customs for a breach of the Customs Law, have been paid off by the owner. The Customs authorities still hare possession of the vessel. Fallon’s tender for the second contract for the graving dock for the sum of £2OOO has been accepted. The engineer’s estimate was £5300. The highest tender was £3660. Lord Clifford visits the Lake Country. The whole of the Parnell borough rates and drainage debentures, £BOOO, have been taken np. The transit of Venus party have selected the Domain Park as a spot suitable for the observation. The transit instruments will be at once fitted np. WELLINGTON, October 17.

The steamer Lalla Eookh, for the safe ,y of which great anxiety was felt daring the past three or four days, arrived in the Waitara at about eleven o’clock to-night.

GBBYMOUTH, October 17.

There has been a strike of coal hewers in the coal pits here. The men want an alteration in the working hours so as to work eight hours below without a break, instead of nine with a break of an hour for refreshment. The company take the stand that if the men decline to conform to the old arrangement they may seek employment elsewhere. TIMABTJ, October 17.

A man named George Ingram fell over the cliff on to the sea beach near St. Andrew's railway station this morning, and sustained very serious internal injuries. He was brought into the Hospital, where he now lies, In reply to the urgent solicitations of the member for Gladstone, the Minister for Public Works has telegraphed that the work on the Albury railway extension will be commenced immediately, so os to be finished by next grain season. At the special meeting of the Borough Council last night, it was resolved to take the necessary steps for raising a £16,000 loan for drainage purposes, the maximum interest to be 7 per cent, per annum. DUNEDIN, October 17.

L) Land Board to-day met to determine the division of forty-three tuns to be sold in February next year. The majority of the runs were agreed to be re-leased, some for seven, some for ton, some for fourteen, and some for twenty-one years, and the upset rental was fixed at from Id np to as much as 5d per acre. One run, that is now leased by Messrs Cargill and Anderson, at Roxburgh, containing 32,000 acres, was entirely reserved for settlement, as was also a portion of one at the head of Lake Wokatipu ; and Messrs Smith and Gellibrand's Mount Stoker ran, containing 18,600 acres, was decided not to be re-leased at present. At the Police Court to-day, Robert Johnston, for fraudent bankruptcy, was discharged. There was a discussion at the Episcopalian Synod this evening, on the motion by the Rev. Mr Bing, seconded by Archdeacon Edwards, affirming the desirabily of a school for girls being established ia connection with the Church of England. The mover stated that his special reason for bringing the motion forward was that the practice of sending girls to the Roman Catholic convent schools, as is largely followed in Dunedin, might be obviated. It was stated that some twelve eases were known in which girls had been proselytised to Boman Catholicism whilst attending these schools. All the speakers concurred in the opinion that the influence, direct or indirect, must be exercised towards proselytising in such schools, according to the well known tenets of the Boman Catholic Church. The motion was carried, and a committee was appointed to take steps to carry it out _ A motion was also carried affirming the desirability of doing away with the 10s fee for performing the marriage ceremony. The only brig Wave which has left Dunedin arrived safely at Hokianga on Saturday. Probably one of the vessels named “ Wild Wave,” of which there are several, must therefore be meant by the recent Nelson telegrams.