NEW ZEALAND.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2192, 29 March 1880, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND.

[Peb “Times” Special Wiiie.] Ex-Convicts for Auckland. Auckland, March 2D. — The Sovereign of the Seas lias arrived at Auckland from Noumea, with 30 men, o women, and 1 child. The passengers include D deportees and 11 free Trench colonists. A number of free colonists arc expected to emigrate from New Caledonia to the Australian Colonies owing to the depressed state of affairs there. Arrest of a Turfite. J. 11. Tiling, a well-known racing man, has been arrested for defrauding a man of £lO by false pretences, at Kaipara. The Lincolnshire Delegates. Messrs Grant and Foster, the Lincolnshire delegates have made an inspection of the Kaipara district. They leave by the outgoing San Francisco steamer. Feforc their departure they stated that their impressions of New Zealand had been most favorable. Everywhere they were most hospitably treated. In the South, however, they found that all the good agriculturallaud had passed from the hands of the Government. Some runs remained open, but that was not the case with the land they bad been looking for. They were much pleased with Waikato, and also with what they had seen of North Auckland. It now remained entirely with the Government when they personally returned to settle in New Zealand. The difficult}"- in the way is that having been accustomed to farm areas of a thousand acres and upwards, aud having capital to bring such an area under cultivation,

there were obstacles in the way of their obtaining such farms from the Government. The Te Aroha block, on which they would immediately take up_ 15,000 acres for themselves and other Lincolnshire farmers, is surveyed in lots not exceeding 300 acres, and it appears doubtful whether the Government will meet their views by granting larger areas. The delegates have written to the Press returning thanks for the genuine hospitality which they have received, and regretting that their obligations are so great and their time so limited that they cannot send their acknowledgements in detail. The Native Commission. Hawk aa, March 29. — The Native Commission had a very satisfactory interview with Titokowarau, Kokeri, and other important chiefs yesterday. They regard the native difficulty as now at an end, although things were very gloomy when they first came. Floods at Hawke’s Bay. Napier, March 29. —The bar is still very bad. The outward English mail has been left behind, as the Eotorua has not been communicated with. Great indignation is expressed, as it is generally thought that the lifeboat could have gone' out if started at the proper time. Communication with most of the country districts is restored, but th,o coaches are unable to run through the Seventy-Mile Bush. Tanner lost 1500 sheep, and Colonel Whitmore 200 by the floods. Bunedin Criminal Calendar. Duxkdi.v, March 29. —The criminal calendar consists of eighteen cases, including two cases of cutting and wounding, one horse stealing, live highway robbery, one manslaughter, and one wilful murder.