NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2704, 7 December 1882, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND.

[per press association .l

AUCKLAND, December 6. It is stated that the Surrey Hills Estate, Ponsonby, belonging to the Hon. Jas. "Williamson, has been sold to the Waikato Land Company, consequently Thomas Eussell and McLean and Co. are largely interested in this purchase. The Waikato natives are availing themselves so readily of the Government offers of land through Judge Fenton, that the difficulty now is to find enough suitable blocks for them. NEW PLYMOUTH, December 6. The Taranaki Agricultural Show came off to-day. The number of entries were larger than on previous years, and the attendance was largo. GISBOENE, December 6. Mr Bold, inspector of the Postal and Telegraph Department, met with an accident yesterday whilst driving in a buggy with Dr. Pollen. The horse shied ofi the road and the buggy was overturned. The doctor escaped without injury, but Mr Bold was thrown on his head and was rendered insensible for a time. He afterwards recovered.

WELLINGTON, December 6. The illicit distillation cases were concluded in the Magistrate’s Court this evening. William Thompson and Thomas Morgan, who were arrested in town with forty gallons of whiskey in their possession, were each fined .£IOO, or in default two months’ imprisonment. George Taylor, upon whose farm at Pahautanui the still was discovered, was mulcted in a fine of .£2OO, or sis months’ imprisonment. The charge against Thomas Taylor, a part owner of the farm, was withdrawn. GEEYMOUTH, December C.

A very bad case of blood poisoning has occurred in this town. A girl named Whitmore cut her foot, and "the wound became poisoned by her stockings, which were of a brilliant colour. Her head and limbs are swelled abnormally, and her life is despaired of.

DUNEDIN, December 6.

Mr D. S. Currie, for many years local manager for the New Zealand Shipping Company here, has relinquished his position to go into business. He will be succeeded by Captain Boyd, of the ship Piako

[PEOM THE “ PRESS.”! WELLINGTON, December G. With reference to the Press Association’s telegram stating that the Government intended to “ buy ” Kawia Harbor, I may explain that this scarcely represents accurately the plans of the Government. It is not strictly correct to say that the Government will ” buy ” the harbor, but it is undoubtedly intended to lay off the township at Kawia, and take steps to open the harbor to European trade. This is a prominent step in the way of a fresh departure in the Native policy, Kawai being hitherto kept strictly as a sealed harbor, rigidly closed to all but Native vessels. No ijoint has been a more salient feature in the policy of the Kingitesthan the maintenance of Kawia as a sort of sacred haven not available to strangers, and this is a marked move in the policy I recently sketched out as that which I understood to have been decided, and you will have noticed that Mr Bryce’s letter, as published, entirely bears out my forecast, both of the letter and of the policy on which it is founded, that is to say, the Government have made fair offers, and now do not mean to be humbugged and obstructed by antiquated whims and fads of Maori obstructionists. No quarrel will be sought, but the natives will not be allowed to bo obstructive in the North any more than in the West. They will lie made to understand that they are the Queen’s subjects, and therefore must bo subject to the laws of her Government the same as Europeans. From what I can hear the Maoris are beginning to recognise their position, and are disposed to trim sails to the breeze.