NEW ZEALAND.

Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume XXXI, Issue 84, 20 November 1872, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND.

[Pee New Zealand Press Association.] Wellington, November 18.

To-day s Gazette notifies the following bonuses, in compliance with v resolution of the House of Representutives on colonial industries : — £5,000 for production of 1,000 tons of good pig-iron ; £1,000 bonus for 100 tons steel, made from iron sand ; £2,000 for 250 tons of beetroot sugar ; £2,500 for 100 tous of printing paper, manufactured by machinery ; 4s. per cwt. for cured fish, dry or pickled, exported for consumption abroad. November 19. In the Divorce Court, Seager v. Senger, a decree annulling the marriage, was made absolute. The result of the inquiry respecting the wreck of the City of Newcastle, finds the master solely to blame for leaving the deck in charge of an inexperienced person. He is severely censured, and his certificate has been cancelled. No appeal cases have yet been decided. Auckland, November 18. The Cagli Opera troupe are passengers by the Hero, which arrived to-day. November 19. The Provincial Council opened to-day. The Superintendent regretted the Colonial Government hud not placed the revenues of provinces upon a permanent btiMs. Owing to various causes, he taid the Provincial revenue was likely to exhibit a deficiency ill the ensuing j ear. A comprehensive Education bill is to be introduced. Two highway districts have refused to strike a rate upon valuation. CnniSTcniracH, November 18. Mr. Eedwood beat Mr. Maxwell in a pigeon match. The former killed forty-four birds, and the latter thirty. Mr. It. Black, coach driver between Akaroa and Christchurch, drove over a 6teep bank. Mrs. Black was killed, and Mr. Black was severely injured. Dunedin, November 19. The Agent-General's cablegram states the Charlotte Ghidbtono to have sitih-d for Otngo on the 4th instant, with 350 immigrants. Messrs. Reynolds and Bathgate have been unable to meet their constituents, owing to the pressure of businets. The dismissal of Mr. Reid's Government i>gazetted. Messrs. Tolniie, Turnbull, M'Arlliui-, *md M'Dermoid, are the new Government. Mr. Toliliie is Provincial Secretary and Secretary of Lauds ; Mr. Turnbull, Treasurer. A boiler exploded at the soap-works, in Great King-street. A boy's arm was broken, and a man scalded. Ikvercabgill, November 19. The boy Carroll has been sentenced to fourteen clays' imprisonment for placing obstructions on the railway. Tho trial of Morrison, for murdering Simons, is proceeding. lloare, an old offender, has been sentenced to four years' penal servitude for stealing a watch.