NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1613, 22 April 1879, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND.

[per press agency.] Auckland, April 22

At the Police Court to-day a woman applied for a protection order against her husband, and recounted a heartrending story of wrong. When she had finished the alleged husband, in defence, asserted he never was married to the woman. A search was instituted by the Registrar, and it showed no record of a marriage. The application was refnsed.

A representative billiard match took place between the North, represented by an Auckland gentleman, and the South, represented by a Southern gentlemen. The game was 500 up, and there was a large attendance. The Auckland man ran out when his rival was at 452. The Auckland man was challenged by another Southern man, Tho brigantine Meg Merriles arrived this morning from the islands with a cargo of copra. The captain reports that the Native troubles at Ropumate had subsided. When passing Aran Island he beard the report of guns proceeding from the shore. Howe, a white trader, came off in a boat and stated that Native fighting was going on between rival parties, assisted by a number of Natives from the adjoining islands. Tauranoa, April 22. The TaupeMr Geo. Ellis of Napier, who is at present on a visit here, offered Messrs Goukand Henderson ,£6OO to be permitted to “ stand in” on the Taupo contract with them. This was refused, though Mr Ellis guaranteed to get the Taupo off for a quarter of the tender, and without any of the elaborate paraphernalia of schooners, &c., being brought from Auckland. Ho says there is no real difficulty whatever in the matter. Messrs Gonk and Hawkeswood ought to make an uncommon good thing out of the contract. (New Plymouth, April 22. To Whiti has ordered the settlers and constables to leave Opuuako, and Mackay and Blake’s negotiations have not yet concluded successfully. Blenheim, April 22. The Lottery Question. At the Police Court yesterday Stevenson, a hotel keeper at Renwick, was charged, under a statute of George IT., with disposing of a pair of ponies and a carriage by lottery. It waa contended for the defence that the statute was not in force in New Zealand. Judgment was reserved for a week. Wellington, April 22. The Premier’s Movements. Sir G Grey will leave for Auckland in the Hinemoa to-morrow. He will probably be accompanied by Mr Sheehan. Wellington, April 22, It is stated that several Manners and Cuba street hotel-keepers have agreed to pay a small subsidy to the new lessees of the Imperial Opera House, as an acknowledgment of tho benefit which will accrue to the trade of the locality from the continuous run of performances which they guarantee. It is stated here on what purports to be good authority, that a fresh information will be laid against Messrs Kinross, Sutton, and Wqrgan, for perjury in connection with Maori affairs, as referred to in recent telegrams. A visitor to tho Wairarapa, writing of the Wellington-Mnsterton line, says the Peatherston line is simply a marvel, but will always remain a monument to the extravagance and recklessness of people who would pierce the Rimutaka at any cost. At the Resident Magistrate’s Court this morning Thomas Bromley, a youth of seventeen, was charged with cruelty to animals in beating a horse with a long spike nail in the end of a stick. It was proved he drove the nail up to the head iu the horse’s flesh. The magistrate fined him 40s, expressing regret that the law did not allow him to order the culprit ten lashes on his hare back. fFEOJI OIJB OWN CORRESPONDENT.] Invercargill, April 22. John Clark McKay, at the Resident Magistrate’s Court, was committed for trial for an attempted rape upon a girl four years of age. The Governor’s Tour. The Hinemoa arrived at tue Bluff yesterday morning with the vice-regal party. His Excellency the Governor, on lauding, was received by the Mayor, Mr G. W. Niehol, and the Council, who presented an address of welcome. After his Excellency’s reply had been received the school girls presented Lady Robinson with a beautiful greenhouse bouquet, with which she expressed her great satisfaction. The party then walked up the wharf under large evergreen arches, with “ Welcome ” written on them, and started for Queenstown. The Hinemoa then sailed for Wellington.