NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1612, 21 April 1879, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND.

[PEK PBHS3 AGENCY.] Auckland, April 19.

The cutter Start ia a total wreck at Ngunfruru. She was insured for <£loo in the South British.

Alexandra, April 19,

The dwelling-house of the Kev. W. Barton was burnt with its contents. The fire is supposed to have been caused by an incendiary, Wellington, April 19.

Edward Griergs, a young boy, for stealing about 3s worth of tobacco and cigars, was ordered by the Magistrate to be imprisoned three hours and to be whipped with a birch, with similar severity to that a parent would be likely to use towards a child.

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Auckland, April 19.

A memorial to the Governors of the Grammar School is being signed, praying for the establishment of evening classes for instruction in higher education.

Signor Pompei’s Opera Company •will give two benefit performances, assisted by local amateurs, to raise funds to convey them back to Australia.

An application by a country school committee to the Board of Education yesterday, to replace a female teacher with a male, was refused, the Board being of opinion that female teachers are more efficient thau males in small schools. “Nimrod,” the sporting contributor to the “ Star,” noticing the winner of the Easter Handicap, says—“ The way Resolution was ridden and ran caused great disappointment to the public, who had backed him to win a good stake, and until the lash moment he was evidently intended to win, when a young fledgling came forward and made some very foolish bets, ■which I believe are still unpaid, and the young man departed.” O’Connor won the mile race at the Easter athletic sports to-day; and J. E. Sutton the Easter Cup. At the Ponsonby regatta finish to-day, the Auckland Rowing Club beat the Ponsonby Club by three lengths. The secretary of the English Opera Company writes to the “Star” that the company were hurriedly engaged in Sydney, had no opportunity for rehearsals on board owing to seasickness, and were compelled to play two days after arrival. He says the members of the company have been at work in the theatre even in meal hours to supply the novelties demanded by the management, but they had not received any salary, in fact have had great difficulty to get their board paid.

Wellington, April 19. The Government have Riven formal notice that the Collector of Customs has been instructed to take legal proceedings against the captain and owners of the steamer Taiaroa, for carrying a greater number of passengers than she is entitled to do by law. It appears that while the steamer is only licensed to carry forty in the saloon, she carried eighty. Every berth in first and second cabins of the Stad Haarlem is already engaged for the return ▼oyage. Captain McKay, of the schooner Emerald, from Westport to Wellington, reports that on the voyage through the Straits, in a heavy sea, one of the crew known as “Bob,” whilst engaged shaking out a reef fell from the yard and was drowned. Immediately aft r r the occurrence a life buoy was thrown overboard, and a boat put out. After searching a considerable time no trace of the man could be found, and the boat returned.

In an article against the existing law on patents the “Post” considers it detrimental to the general interests of the colony, and says : —“We are pleased to know this subject has not escaped the attention of the present Ministry, and if they bo properly supported by the Legislature, there is no reason why, before twelve months, we should not have ia New Zealand a Patent Act, analogous to that of America, and the antipodes of that stupid and cumbersome specimen of legislative folly which at present disgraces our statute book, throttling trade and industry, and injuring the community collectively and individually’’ At Greenfield and Stuart’s sawmill, a trial was made yesterday to ascertain how soon water could be put on in case of fire,and though the men were all engaged working, with no idea as to what was to be done, they had the hose ready and water turned on in 48.} seconds.

A person is to be brought up here for beating a horse with a stick and spike nail at the end of it, the nail sometimes being driven up to the head in the flesh of the horse. The movement for establishing a gymnasium is going on vigorously. Moore, the gold prospector, shows several samples of gold he has found in the Hutt county, but the locality he declines to make known until he is assured, either by the County Council or Government, that he shall profit by his discovery. In asking for the gold duty for fifteen years, he stipulates for the duty only from those goldfields he may discover within the next three j ears. A “ Gazette.” extraordinary issued this morning, further prorogues Parliament to the 10th June. There will be a further prorogation probably to the 24th July. The Customs receipts at the port of Welling, ton for week ending to-day, reach the sum of .£4922.

The “Chronicle” urges that the surplus population of Great Britain should be relieved by immigration to the colonies, and that Sir G. Grey has now an excellent chance to augment his lame whim benefiting his fellow men, by proposing to the Home Government a system of emigration from the United Kingdom to these colonies—part of the cost of which would be borne by the Imperial Government, and part by the Colonial Governments.

Mr Joseph Ball formerly proprietor of the Wellington “Advertiser” died last night after a few weeks’ illness.

A son of Mr It. j. Duncan, auctioneer, while out shooting yesterday with some other boys, accidentally shot himself in the shoulder. His companions carried him three miles befoie reading any house, and by the time he x’eached the house ho had lo t so much blood that it was impossible to save his life. He died three hours after being wounded. He was only fourteen years of age. The man James Marshall, of Christchurch, who fell out of the window of the Branch Hotel here last week, died in the hospital last niuht from the effects of the accident. The injuries were not considered to be of a dangerous nature.

Nelson, April 19. In the Snpromo Court, before the Chief Justice, in the case McNamara v tl o Norwich Union, a claim for =£ooo, amount of insurance, after six hours’ absence, the jury returned with the following finding :—Principal issue—l. That plaintiff truly described to defendants the heat producing apparatus used on the premises, so that the risk might be ju’tly estimated; 2. 'that pla’intiff fraudulently misrepresented the value of the property to be insured, so far as the stock-in-trade, furniture, and wearing apparel were concerned, but not of the dwelling. f 3. That the claim made by the plaintiff after the fire was fraudulent. 4. That p’aintiff is entitled to receive =£l4o. Judgment was ordered to bo entered for plaintiff for that amount. Mr Fell, for defendant, will move to set aside the judgment, on the ground that fraud having been proved with reference to part, vitiates the whole contract. Ibe case lasted three long days, and 05cited considerable interest.

Dunedin, April 19

In the police eonrt to-day Julius Eastwood, a member of the Timiru Volunteer Company, wag charged with having, on the 15th, conducted himself in Stuart street iu a manner calculated to provoke a breach of the peace. He was further charged with having stolen £5, the property of Kate Walker, the keeper of a house of ill-fame in Stuart street. The accused was arrested at Timaru on a warrant, and the evidence wont to show that on the night in question he led about sixty volunteers to Walker’s house, and proceeded to demolish it, adeging that he had .£5 there and was going to have them back. Detective Noil, seeing the turn things were taking, induced Miss Walker to pay Eastwood £5 under protest, and this was the money the accused was now charged with stealing He was remanded till Wednesday for the attendance of the captain of his company, who, it was said, was a solicitor, and was going to appear for him. Invercargill, April 20.

It is expected that Sir Hercules Eobinson will strive at the Bluff early to-morrow morning in the Hinomoa. On landing, ho will bo presented with an address, and will then proceed by special train to Kingston. On his return hero, an address will be presented to him by the Town Council.