NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2721, 29 December 1882, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND.

I PEE PRESS ASSOCIATION] AUCKLAND, December 28. Mr Rothe, representative of the Colonial Sugar Refining Company, and Mr Muir, engineer, arrived by Te Anau from Sydney, to commence immediately the construction of the company’s refining works at Duck Creek, North Shore. The first instalment of the machinery is expected from England in eight months. The Government Domain had a narrow escape from being burned out yesterday. Some smokers threw a match in the undergrowth, which blazed fiercely. A quarter of an acre was destroyed before the fire was suppressed. George Ohlsen was brought up at the Police Court for a murderous assault on his wife this morning, and remanded for eight days. Mr K. Taylor, solicitor, has retired from the defence of Priestly. NELSON, December 28. Archibald Forhos delivered his second lecture here, “ Kings and Princes I have met,” this evening, and was accorded a most hearty reception. , GREY MOUTH, December 28. The body of the young man Cox, drowned a few days ago at Cobdon, was found this evening at Ten Mile, on the boach, where it had drifted to in the meantime. The regatta to-day was rather tame. The sculling race was won by Jackson, Sweetman second. Giblin put himself out of the race by rounding the buoy on the wrong side. Jackson won with an open boat. For the four-oared race only two came to the scratch —the Richmond (Greymouth crew) and the Dercitus (Hokitika crew). The coxswain of the latter lost his tiller ropes soon after the start, and the Hokitika crew wore virtually out of the race and soon after withdrew. The pairoared race was won by Jackson and Giblin. The weather was very favourable and the water smooth. There was no sailing race. TIMARU, December 23. A strong southerly gale with heavy sea and showers of rain continued all last night and to-day, and shows no signs of abating. Some of the heavier crops have boon knocked about somewhat, but a spell of warm weather will recover them. The harbormaster went out to-day in the steam tug Titan to test the efficacy of using oil on heavy seas. He proceeded some miles out, taking a life boat with him. The result of the experiment exceeded the most sanguine expectations, and fully satisfied all on hoard that the oil might be used to great advantage hero. All vessels in port are inside the breakwater and lying very snug. DUNEDIN, December 28. At the Roman Catholic Church to-day, three young ladies entered upon their novitiate in the Dominican order of nuns, and two, whose year of probation had expired, made their final vows. The Harbor Hoard to-day decided, on the motion of Mr Fish, to send home the plans

of their new engineer, bar improvements, to Sir John CoodGiOr tiproval before taking any action upon them. [FROM TUB 1 ‘ PRESS.” 1 WELLINGTON, December 28. I understand the Government have received no intelligence, confirmatory or otherwise, of the cable message published by the Press Association to the effect that the Secretary for the Colonies had decided to receive Agents-Genoral on the same footing as Ambassadors. The telegram is rather vague, and it is believed that it merely refers to some minor details in respect to their relation to the Colonial office with which Agents have expressed their dissatisfaction on more than one occasion.