NEW ZEALAND.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXII, Issue 7386, 31 October 1884, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND.

[Peb ;?EEsa Association.] i AUCKLAND. Oct, 30, ’Hie l-cdy of Mr Decimus Atkinson, victim of the late boat accident at rani, has been recovered and buried. Olaf Tarsen Olior, belonging to the barque Winona, lying at Makarau, Kaipara, was accidentally killed by being jammed between two logs. He was a native of Norway, 21 yearsold, and has no relations in the Colony. The engineer of the s.s. Macgregor, having declined t/> sign the new articles, the Seamen's Union have obliged the Northern Company to draw out until the demand to raise the pay to current rates has been conceded. Other engineers sustain his action. The manager of the Company stated he did not intend to comply ■with the request of the engineer. Yesterday afternoon Superintendent * Thomson received a telegram from CapAmodo, of the lona, at Mercury Bay, that Constable Walker might bo penaltted to proceed in the vessel to Auct-

land, as he feared a disturbance. It appears that a number of members of tho Seamen's Union wens at Mercury Bay, and considerable excitement prevailed with regard to the strike; and one man, named Rat Ceilings, informed the captain he intended to assault him on board, and. by intimidation, succeeded in inducing a newly employed man to leave his work in the engine-room. Mr Thomson panted the request, but no trouble took place on tbe passage up. At a meeting of the Beamon's Union yesterday, the Chairman exhorted nil the men now to further the interests of shipowners. Three cheers were given when it was announced that the Northern Steamship Company did not intend to press the charges against the men who had lieen arrested. NEW PLYMOUTH, Oct. 30. The Supreme Court was opened to-day by Judge Gillies. Ilia Honor said there was a large mi in Her of cases, but none were of a serious nature. William Knight, charged with stealing a horse and saddle at Hawera, was found guilty, and ordered to be brought up for sentence at two o'clock. WELLINGTON, Oct. 30. The Now Zealand Shipping Company have received a cable message announcing that their new steamer, the Kaikoura, loft Plymouth at 8 a.m., on Oct. 28, for Wellington. The appointment of G. P. Hew lings to be Clerk at the R.M. Court, Lyttelton, is gazetted. GREYMOUTH, Oct. 30. Considerable dissatisfaction is felt by the local coal shippers at the unequal way in which Grey shippers are treated as compared with Westport. They ask why they should be charged 3d a ton after the expenditure of XIOO.OOO, while Westport shippers will not begin to pay 3d until X2&0.000 has been expended, thus relieving them of tho tax for several years after Groymouth shippers arc compelled to pay the impost. DUNEDIN, Oct. 30. In a letter to the Star it is stated that owing to the resolution of tho Seamen’s Union, in Sydney, that seamen’s wages be advanced to X 7 per month, the expenditure of tho Union Steamship Company has been increased X3OOO per year. Mr A. C. Strode having resigned his appointment on the University Council, Mr Macandiew, M.H.R., has been appointed. At the Harbour Board to-day a further month’s leave of absence was granted to the Chairman of the Board (Mr A. 11. Ross, M.H.R.); and a motion was passed thanking him for bis action on behalf of the Board in Parliament. A meeting is called for to-morrow to take steps to celebrate the Wycliffe quincentenary. During the summer coaches will run between Lakes Wakatipu and Wanaka, enabling tourists to do botlf lakes. Hitherto, owing to want of communication, Wanaka, which has the finest scenery, has rarely been visited.