NEW ZEALAND.

Press, Volume LII, Issue 9162, 20 July 1895, Page 7

NEW ZEALAND.

(press association tjbleorams.) NAVIER, July 19. Mr Clayton, the surveyor engaged in the triangulation of the Uriwera Country, reports chat the survey i 3 proceeding quietly and satisfactorily so far as the Natives are concerned, the Maoris offering no interference whatever, but they hold aloof from assisting in any way. The survey has been greatly hampered by the- severe weather "and continued heavy snow which ia in some places 10 feet deep. The survey of the Waikaremoana Galatea road is progressing, and about four miles it is expected will be ready for the unemployed by the end of next week. The gold prospectors in the Wairoa district returned after a week's absence and report a rough time owing to the snow. They found traces of a reef considerably disturbed by volcanic action, and aho brought in samples of a prospect of loose gold slightly better than the previous samples. A further exploration is inteuded. Charles Grilfia was sentenced to six months' imprisonment for the larceny of a portmanteau, the property of Miss Kate Browning, of Dunedin. HAWERA, July 19. The leaseholders on the West Const are forming a League to get redress for their grievances under the Public Trustee, and to formulate a scheme by which the Government shall buy out the Natives interested in the reserves and make the rent to the tenant 4 per cent on such capital value, tho Natives to receive interest instead of rent, and the administration to be transferred from the Public Trustee to the Crown. WELLINGTON, July 19. At a meeting of the Ambulance Association, the Governor said that he could not refrain from thanking the doctors who had attended Lady Augusta Boyle. From every sec-ion of the community they had received expressions of affectionate sympathy. He desired to thank the people of the colony therefor. NELSON - , July 19. At the Supreme Court, before a special jury, was tried the case Austin Weller agaiust John Langley Adams, for £1000 damages for malicious prosecution in a case heard on the 7th of June, when the Stipsudiary Magistrate dkmis3ed tho information laid against Weller for the larceny of some articles from a box left by Adams on a run sold to Weller's f ither. Tha fury returned a verdict for the plaintiff, with £100 damages, aud costs on the lowest scule. DUNEDIN, July 19. A young man named James Ulue was committed for trial on a charge of burglary. A womia uaincil Joyca, w!n> :\ stn-ili shnn, had been sentenced to a ler.n of impiif><>ii!»e:it. Detective M'jGm.Ui su pected an attempt at burglary would be made and, with a constable, secreted himself in the *hop, eventually capturing Blue. T?ho subscriptions for tha unemployed now exceed £2000.