NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2664, 20 October 1882, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND.

[FSB PBBSfI ASIOOIATIOK.] AUCKLAND, October IS. The Harbor Board has resolved to get one of the Prestmann’s dredges, wita all the latest improvements, and to improve the present dredges, at a total cost of £I3OO, involving an annual expenditure c-f £IOOO. Sir George Grey has assented to the pro-' posal of the City Council to transfer his library to the Auckland Museum for public use.

George Donoan, aged eighteen, and Wm. Leighton, his cousin, while wotkisg brick making at Henderson’s Mill,were hnried alive by a fall of a bank of earth 14't high. Watson Duncan noticed the accident from a distance, and went and dug wher* he heard the voice of Leighton, and got him out abve. When George Duncan was got cut ha was dead, evidently suffocated. The bank had loosened through the late rains. WANGANUI, October 19.

Tho railway engine caught a trap containing a mat.tJJnamed Oonr ;y and a boy named Wright whilst going aver the level crossing. Both occupants were seriously injured, and no hopes of Conroy’s recovery are entertained. It is stated that the driver did not sound the whistle.

WELLINGTON, October 19.

Mr Biohard Wolssly Cook and Mr Joseph Oatterell have been appointed os assessors in the Canterbury property assessment district. Mr Q. Walter Falairet has been appointed assistant registrar of the joint stock companies in Canterbury, and Mr Charles Edward Dudley to be clerk of the Licensing Committee of Eaispoi. Tho regulations for criminal prosecutions and other legal business appear in the “ Gazette.”

GEETMOUTH, October 19 . The dispute between Jtho Coal Bit Heath Company ouajtha co dhewers employed in the mine has been settled by a compromise. The men proposed that an interval of only half an hour instead of a full hour should bo taken during the eight hours’ shift, thus making it eight and a-half, and the company have accepted the compromise. The men returned to work.

The Westport Coal Company are calling for tenders far sinking a shaft on their property at Walls end. TIMABU, October 19.

The total entries for the Timeru Agricultural and Pastoral Association Show, to be hold next week, show a considerable falling off as compared with last year, principally in sheep and cattle. DUNEDIN, October 19,

It having been rumored here that Mr Hannay, Superintendent of Eailwayc for the Middle Island, was to be removed to Wellington, the “ Star " to-night authoritatively contradicts the rumor, and states that the Government nevar had any such intention. The following additions to the list of provisional directors in the Equitable Insurance Association are announced:—Wellington— Hon. J. Martin; Napier—Mr F. Satter, M.H.8., and Mr H. O. Bobjohm. The following comprise the Qreymonta Provisional Board : —Hon. Lahmonn, M.L. O.; Mr A. E. Guinness, county chairman; Messrs Kennedy, D, McLean. W. Perkins, Dr, Mcricc, E. D. Dupre, W. S. Smith, J. J. Biaokmoro, J. Kerr. The share list closes on November Ist. Over 100,000 have already been applied for.

Mr M. W. Gram was to address his Dnnadin Best conatiluen's to-morrow eight, but has received news of theiilnsso of a friend in Australia, which necessitates his leaving tar Melbourne. His address will consequently to postponed till his return. INVE3CABGILL, October 19.

A report irom Btewart Island states thet & traa named Marks, belonging to the cult at Dauntless,was drowned by slipping anour while sculling a dingy, which canted nim. to fall overboard.

A drayman named Thome* May*!, »s old resident, w&s killed to-night by the running away of a horse oa the Bast road. The horse had a bad character for bolting. Mnyso’e neck was broken, either by the full or by thewheeL