NEW ZEALAND.

Temuka Leader, Issue 904, 14 January 1882, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND.

' (Per Press Association ) i A-uckland, Jan.l2,' At a.meeting of the Auckland Pres-_ bytery an, overture was ordered to be for-r-. warded to, the General Assembly of the, /Church, asking them to give an expres-. pion of, opinion as to the position of • ministers in, regard to marriage with a., deceased, wife’s sister, A..petition was. also worded to.be forwarded to the Legis-, lature of New Zealand,', asking for the. establishment of. a University in Auck- , land.. ! The trial of Mikaire Te Papa at the Police Court, charged with the Oxford niurder, is, adjourned till tomorrow., ; Penia Te Kete, who is alleged to be implicated, has also been arrested. Mr - •Mr Sheehan appeared for the prosecution v in the latter case. The.charge of manslaughter against ; , the Cambridge native broke down at, the Supreme Court today, owing to « , flaw in,the indictment. The accused* was. rearrested and will he proceeded; against in, the Auckland Court. ;: Mr Knox, one of, the Directors of the ', Sydney Sugar- Refining Company, y visited Auckland by the steamer Hero, and inspected the neighborhood with a, view to selecting a site,.for a., sugar refining factory. He has purchased a block, of land, at Kauri-Point, at a cost of % : L5000.< He expects that the plant aud -> buildings will absorb L 200,000. 5 No steps Rave yet been taken in Auck- , land to give, Tawhaio a welcome on his . coming down, but excellent feeling prevails. The smallpox patients per Zealandia , / are both: ; Auckland < passengers, their, names being R. T. Crawford, and George , Stainger, Wellington, Jan. 3.2. The following resolution was passed a meeting,of the provisional directors of the New- Zealand Woollen Factory-) Company held yesterday Owing to the. lack of interest displaced By the public,; and the want to application for shares, the project to form Woollen Factory Company in Welling- ~ tom’ on- the basis suggested be for a time, ~ abandoned.”

Havelock, Jan. 12. A man named Charles O’Donnell met with an accident yesterday at 1 otara Hill, about eight miles from Havelock* ' truck went over him bodily at 9 a.m. »#and he died at 3 p.m. Christchurch, Jan. 12. The Star says J- A. Morran has de- • vised a new method for treating potatoes as to enable them to stand a long voyage, and trial shipments are about to be sent to England or India by Cunningham and Co. Oamaru, Jan. 12. The trial of reapers and binders under the auspices of the North Otago A. and P. Association, took place today, There was a large attendance. Three machines competed —the McCormick, the Wood, and the Osborne. The voting was McCormick, 213 points ; Wood, 111 points ; and the Osborne 64 points. The McCormick therefore takes the gold medal of the Association- The lyork done by the machines was good.