NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2678, 6 November 1882, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND.

[PEB PKESS ASSOCIATION.] AUCKLAND, November 4. A ten-roomed house, Hadfield's Temperance Hotel, Waiwera, was burned down. It was insured in the Imperial for .£2OO, and the furniture for £IOO. W. H. Crossley was committed for trial for obtaining goods on false pretences. Arthur Fawcett was arrested on a warrant by telegram from Sydney, charged with embezzling .£25 in Sydney. The prisoner said the arrest was made to ruin his prospects in New Zealand. He was remanded on bail for eight days. Daniel Scanlon, of the Nottingham Castle Hotel, was charged with committing a breach of the Licensing Act in taking jewellery from W. H. Crossley for payment of liquors instead of money, was fined 20s and costs.

HAWERA, November 4.

Mackay, Reserves Commissioner, at their own request, met the Natives at Hokorima yesterday, re leasing portions of the continuous reserve between Waingongora river and Okaiwa, recently sold. Most of the leading Government block Natives interested were present. A few were absent, as the weather being favorable for fishing, and the scarcity of food, compels the Natives to avail themselves of all means of obtaining food. The Natives who met Mackay expressed their willingness to leas* through the commissioner all portions of the reserve. They did not require culti* vation or the grazing of their own stock. One or two old women raised the old cry about the Government having already robbed them of the bulk of their lands formerly, and that now the commissioner was going to take from them the only land they had left on which to grow potatoes and feed their pigs. The old ladies having had their say, sat down contented. At the close of the meeting the Natives cordially shook hands with the commissioner. It is quite clear the Natives begin to see the folly of allowing large areas of country they cannot cultivate to remain in an unproductive state. They can form a pretty fair estimate of the probable income they are likely to derive from the lands, and are wisely making up their minds to lease.

HOKITIKA, November 4.

At a meeting of the railway league this evening, the Mayor in the chair, the following resolution was passed, oii the motion of Mr Jack, seconded by Mr Costley, chairman, "That this meeting, on behalf of the inhabitants of Westland, resolves to strenuously persist in an endeavor to have the recommendations of the engineers of the railway department carried out by the construction of a line of railway to join the East and West Coast via Arthur's Pass." The Mayor was also requested, by a resolution of the meeting, to communicate with Messrs C. E. Button and Archibald Seott to ask those gentlemen to represent the views of the meeting to the railway convention at Christchurch, conveyed in the foregoing resolution.

TIMARU, November 5

Heavy rain set in on Friday night, and continued without intermission till early this morning. It has been general over the whole district, and will do an incalculable amount of good to the crop 3 and pasture.

DUNE DIN, November 4.

There was a fair attendance at the opening of the Art Society's Exhibition to-day.

It has been decided to hold a regatta at Port Chalmers on Boxing Day. At the monthly meeting last evening of the Trades and Labor Council the secretary -was directed to forward the following

resolutions to the Dunedin and Suburban members of the House of Representatives : —(1) " That this Council gratefully acknowledge the efforts of all those members of the Legislature during the past session of Parliament, who manifested such an interest in the prosperity of the working class as to rote for all liberal measures calculated to improve their condition." (2) " That this Council specially acknowledge the services of Messrs Green, Bracken, Fish, Bathgate and Barron, in endeavoring to pass into law various meacures set forth in the Council's political programme."