NEW ZEALAND.

Press, Volume XXXVI, Issue 5062, 28 November 1881, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND.

[PHB PBBBB ABSOCIAriOjr.J AUCKLAND, November 26. At the Wesleyan District Meeting the Bey. Thos. Buddie, who had visited the Lake district, described the state of Natives about Botorua as nearly, or quite, negleoted, and havirg at present no Christian ordinances, (hey were, to a deplorable extent, viotims of intemperance. The newspapers lately published the fact that two Natives bad been mysteriously found drowned in a warm spring one morning. There was no mystery about the matter. Hβ bad seen one of these victims late on the previous evening maddened with drink. Everywhere in the district the Maoris were levying black mail and spending the cash in drink.

The Kangaroo line of vessels has commenced running direct from New York to Auokland. Two are on the way out, and a third will bo placed on the berth in January. Mr Alexander Fleming is out for City West.

The meet of the Pakuranga Hunt Club was indifferent as regards attendance. Thomas Doonan, butcher of the steamer Hero, late last night went to visit his sweetheart, a domestic servant at Featherstone, North Shore. Failing an entrance, he fell asleep oa the verandah and, being mistaken for a burglar, got badly maltreated by the inmates of the house before the mistake was discovered. His arm is stated to be broken.

A man named Bartlett was drowned at Fitzroy Harbor, Great Barrier. On Thursday a luaatio being conveyed from Meroury Bay to the Auckland Lunatic Asylum, jumped overboard and was drowned. THAMES, November 26. Captains Weldman and Sohofield, the deputation to the Attorney.Q-eneral re the pay to the volunteers, have returned, and this morning reported on parade that the Government made a final offer of one month's pay in full, the second month half pay, and a present of the kits supplied tp the men. The contingent have resolved to accept the terms under protest. A petition will be presented to Parliament for the balance of the pay. * PATB A, November 24. The* eohooner Fleetwihg jtot off the river bank last evening without injury. NEW PLYMOUTH, November 27. Some Danes, while felling bush near Stratford, discovered the skeleton of a man, the back of the skull appearing to have been broken in with some blunt instrument.

WELLINGTON, November 26.

Information has been received here that a young man named E. 8. Bailley, formerly employed by Messrs Kempthorne, Prosser and Co., as druggist and occasional traveller, but recently discharged for intemperance, jumped overboard from the barque Malay on her voyage from here to Newcastle, for whioh port he was a pastenger. A boat was promptly lowered, but life was extinct when the body was picked op. Bailleyifl said to have been drinking heavily. Authorityjl-aj been received here to open a Boyal Arch Chapter of Druids for the North Island.

The manager of the Albion claim at Terawhiti reports having in a 25ft cross drive, struck a reef about 3ft thick, showing rich gold. The argument in Brogden and Son v the Queen has been concluded and a decision reserved. Smythe v the Queen, another similar case, was partly argued. Mr McKay, of the Gelogical Department, who was sent to report on the Caswell Sound Marble Company's property, has sent in his report. It snows that the marble consists of three different varieties, of whioh one is good white statuary marble, and that there is every prospect that a marketable article will be produoed if the quality it equal to the samples shown.

EUMABA, November 26. Mr Edwin Blake is the third candidate for Kumara eleotoral district.

TIMABU, November 27. The Premier arrived yesterday morning, and proceeds to Dunedin to-morrow. Luge quantities of wreckage still continue to be washed ashore en the beach south of Timaru. This morning the top of a deckhouse, of American pine, 12ft by 10ft, was picked up, together with the turned posts of a bed, side-light boards, a quantity of light boards painted white and blue, and some cabin fittings. They may possibly be part of the England's Glory, wrecked at the Bluff. DUNEDIN, November 26,

At the City Court the charge against Alfred Palmer, of stabbing the boatswain of the Bio Grande was dismissed, the Bench being of opinion that the wound was not wilfully inflicted.

[feom ottb cosrespondbht.] WELLINGTON, November 27. I understand that the Judicature Commission concluded their work yesterday, '.and sent in their final report to the Government last night, together with two draft Bills, embody ingin legislative form the recommendation of the Commission. I hear that the report proceeds mainly on the lines already indicated as probable, namely, in a direction of materially simplifying end shortening jadicial procedure in all the Law Court, and also enlarging their equity jurisdiction and reducing costs to a minimum.