NEW ZEALAND.

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

NEW ZEALAND.

[per press association.]

AUCKLAND, November 23. McCallum’s Tambour Major Opera Company closed a highly successful season ; ast night to a large and fashionable audience, and left in the Rotorua. The Juvenile Pinafore Opera Bouffe Company opened to-night with “ Pinafore ” at the Opera House to a good house. Win. M. Moyle, an old resident, was found dead in bed. A verdict that death was caused from a fit of apoplexy arising from excessive drinking was returned; and a similar verdict was given in the case of Chas. Byrne found dead in the street yesterday morning. The Waste Lands Board have recommended the granting of a lease of the’iron sand on the Manukau beach to the Iron Smelting Company on the following conditions : Term to be for twenty-three years, and the rental £SO per annum. 2. That the lessees have the right to the manufacture of 500 tons of iron -without royalty, and that Is per ton royalty be paid for any excess. 3. That the sand shall be only removed for the purpose of being manufactured into iron within the provincial district of Auckland. 4. That the timber on the reserve shall be used only for the purpose of this manufacture. _ 5. That the affair shall be in full working order in eighteen months, and that a clause be inserted providing for the continuous working. 6. That Messrs Guthrie and Larnach’s rights be respected. The police authorities have discovered a plant of £2OO worth of jewellery, part of the proceeds of the jewellery robbery on board the steamer Wellington. It was found buried in the earth in Freeman Bay. Some half-a-dozen of the crew of the Wellington are implicated, and will be brought up to-morrow at the Police Court in connection with the affair, when some remarkable disclosures are anticipated. WELLINGTON, November 23. Wellington district has been assigned to Mr Justice Gillies.

Thomas Macfarlane, John Alexander Smith, Joseph Mackay, the Hon. James Crowe Richmond, Bunter Clapcott, Alex. Lean and James Ben Bradshaw have been appointed deputy inspectors under the Lunatic Act.

Sub-Inspector H. W. Northcroft, of the Armed Constabulary force, has resigned. Messrs Murray, Roberts and Co. to-day received the following cable, dated London, November 21st, 1882 :—“ The fourth series of sales opened to-day with an average attendance of buyers. Crossbreds have declined Id per lb ; other descriptions have declined id per lb. The market is irregular. GREYMOUTH, November 23. At a sitting of the Couifty Council to-day, some animated discussion ensued as to a promise of pecuniary assistance to the county made by the Government to Mr Petrie last session not being fulfilled. Dependence had been placed on that promise to meet liabilities for contracts falling in, and a statement of which was furnished the Government. According to the interpretation of Mr Martin, the resident engineer, of the word “ existing” he advised the Government that their promise did not apply to a number of the larger contracts. Consequently they were offered £355 to meet existing contracts while their liabilities on what as existing contracts had only just fallen in amounted to £3900. It was resolved in reference to other tenders since called for to inform Government that the county revenue is quite insufficient to maintain main roads, and that unless the Government will pay the amount of the contracts if entered into the Council will not undertake the maintenance of main roads. It was also resolved that the tenders for the main roads now under consideration be not dealt with until a satisfactory reply be received from the Government. It was stated, in the course of discussion, that the revenue of the county had been largely diminished by the legislation of last session; that Duller county received from the Government two thousand yearly for maintaining the Duller road; also, that there was greater traffic on the Grey-Roefton road than on any other in ahe colony. DUNEDIN, November 23. At the session of the Worthy Grand Lodge of Australasia 1.0.G.T., now being held here, it was decided that the next session shall bo hold in Sydney, about February, 1885. At the afternoon sitting of the lodge yesterday the following officers were elected and installed : Worthy Grand Templar, Bro. John W. Jago, Dunedin; Worthy Grand Councillor, Bro. the Rev. Dr. Roseby, Dunedin; Worthy Grand ViceTemplar, Bro. A. M. Goddcs, Victoria; Worthy Grand Secretary, Bro. D. C. Cameron, Dunedin ; Worthy Grand Treasurer, Bro. Hugh Bennetts, Christchurch ; Worthy Grand Chaplain, Bro. F. G. Dunn, Victoria; Worthy Grand Marshal, Bro. G. Allsworth ; Worthy Grand Superintendent of Juvenile Templars, Bro. John T. Smith, Christchurch ; Bro. the Rev. E.F. Kingdon, of Geelong, taking the chair of Past-Worthy Grand Templar. The officers’ reports and financial statements were passed, and a considerable amount of the routine business of the session got through with. The Equitable Insurance Association have taken permanent premises in Dunedin. The delay in the allotment of shares has been owing to the articles of association requiring to be altered, in accordance with the provisions of the Act passed last year. The allotment notices will be posted at the beginning of next week. In the police court on Wednesday a child four years old, was brought before the Bench as neglected. The police had found it drunk in Stafford street, the mother having given it liquor, and turned it out. It was sent to the Industrial School. The rifle champion. Sergeant Kennedy, was entertained at dinner at Green Island last night. The Benevolent Institution carnival, w hich will be open for ten days, was for-

mally opened to-day by iMse Mayor.' _A costume cricket match will be got up in connection with it —All England Eleven v Women’s Eights Association- The latter side will be in appropriate female costume, and the former dressed in the costume of cricketers of 1845.

The foundation-stone of the Presbyterian Church at Port Chalmers was laid to-day by Captain Thomson, harbor-master. It is to fee a stone building to accommodate 750 persons.