NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2694, 25 November 1882, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND.

[per press association.] AUCKLAND, November 24. Frank Cornwall, a Samoan trader, for horsewhipping Mr C. C. McMillan, merchant, got twenty-four hours' imprisonment with hard labor. The magistrate said as the whipping was intended to degrade the complainant, Cornwall could not complain of being in turn degraded by imprisonment. He thought the case one in which a pecuniary penalty would not meet the ends of justice. Not only had it been shown that assault was committed, but also it was apparently committed without justification.

CAMBEIDGE, November 24. Judgment was given to-day in the matter of the Waotu block, No. 1. Ngatihia was awarded two-fifths, Ngatamahi two-fifths, and Ngataniatea the remaining one-fifth of the block. An influential requisition for a re-hearing of the claim is to be made to the Chief Judge. The successful claimant has disbursed .£IOO in liquor, so that the whole place is in a fair way of becoming a scene of dissipation. WELLINGTON, November 2-1. Mr L. G. Eeid, of Timaru, has been appointed assistant lav/ officer, vice Mr W. M. Lewis. Mr Eeid was formerly in partnership with Mr Button, solicitor, Hokitika. The ketch Elizabeth, which went ashore at Otaki, is much strained and leaking, however it is thought that necessary repairs can be affected at Otaki. GEE YMO UTH, November 24. Mrs Smith, a married woman, who has been leading a drunken dissolute life of late, was found dead to-day. The cause was drink. The house was quite destitute of furniture. The husband of deceased had left her some time ago on account of her bad habits. At the inquest on the body of Mrs Smith, the verdict was died from alcoholic poison. It appeared from the evidence that the house was not fit for human habitation. The rain was coming through the ceiling, and the walls were wet, the paper rotten, and the whole house wretchedly dirty. There was no food nor any of the comforts of life in the place. The Westport Colliery Company have put men to work on the Wallsend property. It is understood they will re-open and work the old shaft, and commence sinking a new one in a month ; also that the company will sink a new shaft on their Westport property. Mr Dickson, general manager of the company, and Mr Patterson, director are now here. The weather is still dry. __ TIMAESJ, November 24. ~

A ten-roomed wooden house, the property of Mr liundersen, coal merchant, was burnt down about three o'clock this morning. There is no clue as to the origin of it. Bundersen was the only man sleeping on the premises at the time. The insurances are in the Union, ,£3OO on the furniture, and .£250 on the building; National, .£250 on the building. DUNEDIN, November 24.

A laborer named John Gordon, who was arrested this afternoon on a charge of stealing a watch and chain from an hotel, com niitted suicide in the police cell by cuttintr his throat with a penknife. • He expired shortly after being discovered. He had been searched, but the penknife must have been secreted purposely. The gate money taken at the show yesterday amounted to .£217 13s Gd. Summerhill estate, the property of Mr Rutherford, M.H.R., at Kaitanga, was offered by auction to-day, and passed in at £IO,OOO. It is likely to be sold privately at .£II,OOO. The shorthorn cattle from the herds of Mr James Shand, Taieri, Mr Joseph Clark, Moa Plat, and the N.Z. and A. L. Co., were sold by auction to-day. The highest xn-ice was obtained for Mr Shand's bull Oxford "Wild Eyes Second, which was bought by Mr G. Printz, Biverton, at 200 guineas. The cow Countess of Alvie was bought by Mr Menlove of 'Oamaru at 135 guineas. Mr Clark's were all yearling heifers, which brought from 2G to 50 guineas. The champion heifer was sold by the New Zealand and L. M. Company, and went to Mr Printz at 60 guineas.

INVERCARGILL, November 24. Mr John Ross, of Sargood, Son and Ewen, who has long represented the farm in Otago, having been admitted partner, and being about to proceed to assume charge of the Auckland branch, was entertained at a dinner here this evening. The company was a large one, and well represented the commercial circles of Invercargill. The proceedings were of a very enthusiastic character. Mr Ross was held in high esteem in the district.

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ASHBURTON, November 24. Mr Parsons, publican, Washdyke, was fined .£lO by Mr Beswick, R.M., to-day for selling liquor without license. At the show on Thursday the money taken at show gates was £BB, being £l6 more than last year. _ , WELLINGTON, November 24. I understand that the latest authentic intelligence received from the King country represents the Natives as increasingly and almost feverishly anxious for some definite arrangement with the Government, but there is still a considerable division of opinion, which may take time to overcome. However, the general opinion seems to be that matters are now in a better train for a permanent peaceful satisfactory settlement of a long standing difficulty than at any previous period. It is rumored that an amnesty will shortly be proclaimed as regards the various prominent insurgent leaders in the last rebellion, with a view to removing such obstacles as may bo erected by their fears of being apprehended and tried for past offences. Mr Bryco has a strong force of Constabulary in the North, who have been gradually and quietly accumulated there, in order to push on the Rotorua road work. They will be handy in case their services should be needed at any time, but this is looked on as highly improbable. The present appearance being in favor of the early and the final breaking up of Kingism, and of a struggle among the Maoris who shall be the first to secure the coveted advantages derivable from the advance of civilisation.