NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2687, 17 November 1882, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND.

[per press association.] OPUNAKE, November 17. The English and New Plymouth mails were recovered yesterday, not much damaged, hut the Parihaka and Pungarehu hags are not yet found. DUNEDIN, November 17. At the City Police Court Elizabeth Tattersall was charged with larceny as a bailee. It appeared she hired a sewing machine from one of the depots, paying half-a-erown as instalment, and at once pawned it. The case was brought as a test one. The Bench sentenced her to one month’s imprisonment. Several deputations waited on the Minister of Works to-day. He gave them satisfactory assurances of the intention of the Government to proceed with the Otago Central Railway, and caused great consternation hy informing the members of the Dock Trust that the whole of the Lower Harbor reserv es, which the Trust looked on as their endowment, had been already proclaimed as reserved for railway purposes. Burke’s brewery, owned hy Dalgety and Co., was totally burned down this morning. The building and plant were insured for £SOO in each of the following offices : Hamhurg-Madgehurg, Scottish Imperial, Australian Alliance, South British, New Zealand, Colonial, and United. The place was leased hy Richard Whittingham, maltster, whose stock was uninsured. He loses about £4OO. The origin of the fire is unknown, hut was probably occasioned hy sparks from a passing train. INVERCARGILL, November 17. A few days ago a settler living at Orepuki, named John Stewart, left that place for Riverton, and had not since been heard of. He was last seen on a bridge over the Aparima river, and as it was feared he had fallen in, search parties went out, -with the result that his body was found to-day a short distance below the bridge.