NEW ZEALAND.

Press, Volume XXXI, Issue 4290, 30 April 1879, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND.

_FKB FBBSS AQKKCY.J AUCKLAND, April 29. The "Star" special correspondent at Te __opua says at 7 a.m. to-day : —" It is bitterly cold here this morning. Tho night was one continued babel of voices; sleep was impos* sible. The programme, so far aa I can ascertain, will be a grand reception of the Lower Waikato and Ngapuhis, the distributing of food, and the making of welcome speeches, &c., but no b-siaets.' r i WELLINGTON, April 29: Several letters having appeared in the local papers complaining of the Banks, a correspondent in this morning's "Times" points out that in reality it is the Banks who are pressed by the public. It argues that the Banks have invested too much capital in the colony, and that the public have made too free with banking capital for trade purposes. Henoe the Drewnre is not on the public, but on tho Hanks by the public* ; It is said that the shares in the IToxton and Sandon railway are not going off well, but that the residents in the district will "take up all the ur. allotted shares.

Miller's Train Hotel, near Mn s u^T^ burnt down this morning. The n«u ??■ *«i * ia about £15,000. P»baM, j* { Mr Gillon, the manager of th„ n I soci.tion, will 'sue the lato pronriL M ! A »- ' "NewZealau_er" in the District n" ° f \ £179 for telegrams supplied Th. Oon,t fo off next Friday. ahe ««9co ffi!f \ MASTERTON a- •, ! The Tenui Hotel is insured £ theS. 85 ' offices, but tho exact amount in ea I• c 6 ( yet obtained:— Imperial, Union r?," Sot * and Victoria. n ' °°lonnl I j [FROlt OUR OWN CORRESPOND**- f TIMARU AnJiL [ This afternoon, while Mrs and ffi I\ » wero driving into town, the horae boltJi ? ' after running some distance, cami,-? 1 ? 1 : trap in Strathallan street, throwin. _!. lh pants violently to tho ground. _!,. S c ?' was seriously injured, and being iy, V J health is now in a very critical stato. An old lady, named Saville, was' lxa in the streot to-day, and severely bruised c! [Press Special I AUCKLAND, Ap'riU A man named Stanton wag arrested to rf '1 charged with stealing v gold watch uritf f from a friend named Hunter. Thevw. • [' the Custom House hotel drinking together? ; following morning Hunter avroke and fan.* k himaelf lying in tho yard, and belietJi, f had been drugged. His witch, JS*** I other proparty was gone. ' v!! f A man named Johnson died audde „»(),,■ > afternoon, on Queen street wharf. He loading gum under a hot sun,' n a £,! apparently dead. Ho partially recovered Z I diod while being conveyed to tho hoK[M f Johnson is said.to be brother of ab_ni« > Ireland. ■"*•',« , WANGANUI, Ap r il "9 f At the Supreme Court today, the Q n j Jury found a trm bill against William Mh? for felony and mifdesmour. Al red laifno' ' who, yesterday, was found guilty 0 f jJj ! ateiling, and recommended to mere- c « account of his youth, was, this moroin/Jf * tenced to six months' imprisonment, wst_ fcjj l< labor. John Donaghy, yesterday found eufli, 1: of atealmg £18 from n dwelling, was s ~ to one year, with hard hbor. G. "Vv". CossJ P yesterday found guilty of horse stealing _.! »" recommended to mercy on account of _ It youth, being only fifteen years old f sentenced to six months' hard labor. } Free was, this morning found ir__t? _ [ maliciously wounding Denis Hurly' w I strongly recommended to mercy, haria, J? f ceived great provocation. He will (Kciw sentence to-morrow. * I WELLINGTON, Aprils, f. At the conclusion of tho Southern trip L [ Governor proceeds to Auckland, whew fe t will remain a month. Tho Natives of Horowhenua block bin ir atopped work at the back of tbe Laic oa fl* Ofcaki road, pending instructions from }&_fa JK Kemp. Governor Hunia is reported {o in | the leading spirit in the movement. Jilt (is not intended to commenoe tha colls.«' tion of the land tax during the pressit fini.. $* cial year. Tho Ist of July will probably „ r fixed upon as the date for paying t_« BrA IF instalment. F With regard to the Native meeting at It % Kopua, the "Post" is at a loss to sot *fo $| the Ngapuhis Bhould send represent-litM»! §'. all to the mooting, unless aa mtercoikj fs; I" tho Premier. R DUNEDIN, April 23. |7 A farmer named Charles Lsiris, residing ai | the Silveratroam, wa9 arrested and brought to I town to-night, -charged with having stoka p nine head of cattle of the value of £70, Hi R is under remand to the Magistrate's Couft- % Mcßae's, the district where the robbery t. §§ committed. §# Mr Alex. Bartleman, branch inspector oi fe the Colonial Bank, waa this evening the red- W pient of a testimonial from the officers of th« te Bank on the ocoasion of his leaving ths m- W vice of the Bank to oommonce busmen ca k, his own aocount. < p His Excellency holds an uodwaa levee tt I, twelve o'olook on Thursday. \w