NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2693, 24 November 1882, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND.

I PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] AUCKLAND, November 24. The Auckland Choral Society have been 1 requested to send a contingent to tlie forthcoming Musical Festival at Melbourne* but have declined. . . . , . Joseph Bittner, -who joined the Austrian army just before the Battle of Waterloo, died recently at Pohui, aged eighty-seven. The church and Eev. Mr Smith’s parsonage at Hollock were burned on Tuesday last The police, have discovered .£2OO worth of jewellery, a portion of the robbery from the s.s. Wellington, under a house in Freeman’s Bay to-day. Te Kooti has called a meeting to be held at Te Kuiti, and Tawhiao will be present. Mr P. H. Fenton, acting on behalf of the Government, interviewed To Wheoro and the Natives at Whatiwhatihoe yesterday. Mr Fenton explained that Government were prepared to allocate lots of land to the landless Waikatos. Tainui was the principle chief present of the Ngatimata and the Ngatimaniapoto. The Natives asked time for consideration amongst themselves before replying, and are now in consultation. NEW PLYMOUTH. November 24. At the Police Court to-day Isaac Wilson, remanded from Auckland upon a charge of having embezzed a cheque for £2.0, the property of Mr Seager, of Waitara, was called upon to surrender to his bail, but did not put in his appearance. His recognisances were ordered to be estreated. WELLINGTON, November 24. In the Appeal Court this morning the ease of Connor v Maokay (Dunedin) was concluded, judgment being reserved. The argument on the points reserved by Judge Richmond in the conspiracy case of Adams was commenced. Mr Forwood, who took over the case from Mr Ollivier, appeared in support of the conviction being quashed, Messrs E. Shaw and Gully supporting the conviction. The Court is still sitting. CAMBRIDGE, November 24. At a large meeting of Natives attending the Court this morning, an invitation was read from Tawhiao, asking them to meet liim at Waotu settlement, forty-five niles south of Cambridge. It was agreed :o accept the invitation, and for that purpose t was decided to apply for the adjournnent of the Court from 20th December to sth January. It is understood this is one of i number of meetings Tawhiao proposes Holding throughout the King country to ;licit an expression of opinion as to the ;ourse he should follow under existing nrcumstances. INVERCARGILL, November 24. At two o’clock this morning a fire was liseovered in a room at the rear of the Irapery warehouse known as Waterloo douse, Esk street. It was discovered in ime, and extinguished without much rouble. The fire was on an odd-looking itretcher sort of frame, extending from the window into a room, on which woven fabrics had been heaped. The room had not been occupied for some time. The origin of the fire is involved in mystery. This forenoon a chemist in Tay street discovered that a hole had been burned in the wall of his shop near the ground, as if materials had been placed against it and had burned out, leading to the belief that incendiaries had been at work.