NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2710, 14 December 1882, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND.

PEIi PEESS ASSOCIATION. THAMES, December 13. At the inqiiest to-day on the body of the newly-born child, which was found in front of the harbor yesterday, the medical evidence showed that the child had lived for a short time after birth, and that its death was caused by the non-tying of the umbilical cord. The police believe they have discovered the person who gave birth to the child and left it .to perish. An adjournment of the inquest for a week took place in order to allow of the mother being produced. AUCKLAND, December 13.

Mr O'Hara has received from the Colonial Treasurer £6 lis, the amount of a fine and costs imposed on his son, who was charged some six months ago with assaulting a Chinaman, the subsequent evidence proving an alibi.

A bicyclist, meeting a 'bus on Mount Albert road, startled, the horses, which swerved and capsized the 'bus over the embankment. The driver and six passengers received contusions. At the inquest on the body of John Hardy, sash maker, a verdict of " Died from excessive drinking" was returned. The evidence shewed that he came here three months ago, from "VVaipukurau, Napier, and knocked down .£2OO since the 19th of October. He was sporting about for the last fortnight with a woman named Eiley, the divorced wife of a man named Standish, spending £5 a day. He has left a good sum of money in the Union Bank, Auckland. He was forty years of age, and said to be single. Others state that his wife is in Melbourne, from whom he had been separated twelve years. Ho has a brother at "Waipukurau run, and a cousin at Taranaki. The mail steamer brought a number of turbines from 'Frisco, for use in the mines on Thames goldfields. WANGANUI, December 13.

At the District Court to-lay, Francis Williamson, found guilty of perjury at the Supreme Court in October iast, was sentenced to a year's hard labor. NAPIER, December 13.

For over a week past the daily receipts of wool at Napier have averaged a thousand bales.

News has come from Takapau that a party of Natives have torn up and destroyed about 180 yards of Mr Wilking's tramway. They removed the rails and cut out the grooves from the sleepers. They have also rendered useless a bridge ninety feet long by removing the rails and sleepers, and throwing them down the gully which the bridge crosses. They are becoming very bounceablo, and a party of Ithem, fifteen strong, were parading about the bush armed with guns, tomahawks, axes, &c. Harvest operations havebeen commenced, and there are excellent hay and seed crops. Work, however, is much delayed by the scarcity of labor. One result of Mrs Hampson's mission here will probably be the permanent establishment of a Young Men's Christian Association. WELLINGTON, December 13. At the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company's wool sale to-day, the following prices were realised : —Scoured

crossbred combing-, 13Jd to lid per lb r washed ditto, lid to 12£d per lb; crossbred in the grease, 7£d to BJdper lb ; ditto coarse and sandy, 5Jd to 7£d per lb. HOKITIKA, December 13.

The Minister of Public Works is expected here to-morrow from Christchurch. Most of the mining claims are at a standstill again for want of water. The pumps are going very steadily on the Boss Gold Mining Company's ground. The shaft is perfectly clear of water. The men are nowworking below. The allotment of shares in. Donnelly's Creek Gold Mining Company, near the Ross Company's ground, was concluded to-day. The capital was subscribed, four times over.

I TIMA.BU, December 13. The criminal sessions of the. Supreme | Court were concluded to-day, when the j Chinamen charged with i-eceived stolen property were found not guilty. DTJNEDIN, December 13 At a public meeting at Milton last night, the following resolution was carried — " That the local shareholders in the Milton. Pottery Company express their willingness, if required, to pay up at once the unpaid calls on their shares to assist the directors in re-instating the works, and to take up further shares if the company should require the issue of additional capital." The first annual meeting of shareholders: in the Brewery Company of Keast and McCarth ;'Limited, was held at the Robert Burns Hotel this afternoon. Mr T. S. Graham occupied the chair. In the report the directors congratulated, the shareholders upon a continuance of the success, under their regime, which. attended the operations of the companywhile in private hands. Up till the 30tK September the net profits were .£2594 6s 9d, out of which they proposed to pay the whole of the preliminary expenses, .£1167 13s 4d; in reduction of goodwill account (leaving that account at .£1400), £6OO ; a dividend at the rate of 10 per cent, per annum on the paid up capital, .£415 ; and to carry forward to the credit of the new profit and loss account the sum of .£4ll 7s sd. The report and balance-sheet were adopted. The Chairman remarked that at a meeting of the directors, held yesterday,, it was decided that, as many amplications for shares had been sent in, the'unallotted shares would shortly be put on the market. The premium at which these shares should be issued had not yet been fixed. The managing director (Mr J. Boyd) intimated that he had received a letter from the Melbourne firm of brokers, who placed their shares in that market, to the effect that the Melbourne shareholders were highly gratified with the report. The retiring directors were re-elected.

An enquiry into the origin of the recent fire at Milton Pottery was begun yesterday, but nothing of interest or tending to throw light on the origin was elicited. The firebegan in in the packing shed, and could have been confined to that portion had proper appliances been at hand. An adjournment was made to allow of the presence of the lastperson on the premises. The Union Steamship Company this afternoon received cable advice that their fine new steamer the Haroto had reached Melbourne Heads at eleven o'clock this morning. She left London on October 25th, thus making the passage in forty-eight days.

INVERCARGILL, December 13. J. M. Gilchrist, constable on sick leave, formerly of the Canterbury force, was sentenced to one month's imprisonment with hard labor, in the Supreme Court, fop stabbing a man one night a month ago. This case concluded the criminal business. The Jenny Lee Company, delayed two nights by the grounding of the Rotomahana. at Melbourne, opened to-night at Sloan's Theatre to a very good house.

[from otje correspondent.! WELLINGTON, December 12.

As inquiries are beginning to be made respecting the intention of Government with regard to floating of the first million, loan, I may say that I understand all necessary authority has been transmitted to the loan agents, who are empowered to use their own discretion in placing the loan in the London market when the period of pledged abstinence expired. That time is up this month, and the matter then rests with the loan agents, who will offer the loan at the earliest period which is, in their opinion, consistent with the best prospects of success. I may add that the latest information from reliable English sources points to the probability that the loan will readily be taken up at a fair price. WELLINGTON, December 13.

Hardly any applications in regular form have yet been received for assistance under the Roads and Bridges Construction Act, ISS2. Numerous inquiries have been made as to the loans obtainable, but in most cases these have merely resulted in a request that the extension of time be granted for getting out the necessary plans as required by the Act, or else the proposal is that funds may be granted in the absence of completed plans. The Government of course are absolutely barred by the terms of the Act from granting either of these concessions, and so there is no alternative but to refuse and to warn local bodies that complete applications and plans' must be in by the 31st inst., or else they must go into next year's appropriations. Curiously enough some of the local bodies have actually supposed that extension of time to 30th June be granted, evidently oblivious of the fact that if the applications are not in by the 31st of December they must perforce go with the next period, which extends to 30th June; so the effect of their being unable to come to time will be exactly what they ask for, in ignorance of provisions of the law. A general mistake made by local bodies seems to be in attempting too much at the outset, that is, undertaking; works quite beyond their power to finish in the year, and therefore capable of being postponed to next without any disadvantage being incurred at present. Not half a dozen complete and regular applications have been received from the local bodies from the whole colony, and there is onlyintimation ot one poll being taken as to the raising a rate under the Act. It is possible, however, that many more may come in before the end of the month. Mr Whitaker does not leave for Auckland. until Saturday next. Mr Connelly has left for Marlborough for the Christmas holidays. Mr Bryce has telegraphed to-day that he would not again be within reach of telegrams for a week, as he goes into the "Wanganui back country.