NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2702, 5 December 1882, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND.

[per PEESS ASSOCIATION.]

WELLINGTON, December 7.

The Government have received intimation that an additional 12,400 acres of the continuous and other reserves in Hawera district have been leased, which makes a total of 20,100 leased. The survey of other reserves is being pushed on rapidly. A supplementary “ Gazette” issued this afternoon further prorogues Parliament until the 15th of February next. In reference to the action entered by Mr W. J. Hunt against Sir Arthur Gordon, it is understood that an application will be made in the Chambers to-morrow for a Commission to take evidence in Samoa on behalf of the defendant. Counsel for the defence include the Attorney-General, the Minister of Justice, and Messrs Harper and Bell. Mr Robert Stout was also retained by Sir Arthur, but has recently severed his connection with the case.

The Customs returns for the colony for the month of November amounted to .£12,708; for the corresponding month last year it was .£16,378. The beer duty for the last month was £3292, being a decrease of £63 on the corresponding month of 1881. The number of nominations for immigrants sent by yesterday’s mail was 454 souls. The number from the districts were : Auckland, 162; Taranaki, 9; Hawke’s Bay, 20; Wellington, 52; Nelson, 8; Westland, 7 ; Marlborough, 4; Canterbury, 79; Otago, 88; Southland. 25. Of these 180 are single women, 76 single men, the remainder families. The amount received for fees was £1359. GREYMOUTH, December 4.

A considerable further fall of rain took place last night and this morning, but it is not yet sufficient to meet the wants of the miners. There are now eleven coal vessels alongside the wharf, and more rain is threatening. KUMARA, December 4.

At the Resident Magistrate’s Court on Saturday the charge against James Wilde, late town clerk, collector and treasurer of the borough of Kumara, for embezzling sums of money from £1 to £5, in all £29 6s 6d, was continued to-day, and accused was committed for trial; bail allowed, himself in £2OO, and two sureties in £IOO each. DUNEDIN, December 4.

The Garrison Hall was thronged to night, when Mr Archibald Forbes delivered his first lecture. Two thousand people must have been present. On coming on the platform wearing his numerous decorations Mr Forbes received a most enthusiastic ovation. The vast audience were highly delighted with the lecture. At the monthly meeting of the Dunedin ministers’ conference a resolution was carried that this conference looks with favor on the compilation of a book of suitable extracts from the Bible to be used as a reading book in the public schools of the colony. The Hon. Mr Johnston, who returned from the country on Friday, goes north on Wednesday,