NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1791, 17 November 1879, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND.

Cfbom oub own cobbbspondbnt.] DUNE DIN, November 16. TA Chinaman and his English Wife. Mrs Ah Kum, wife of a Chinaman residing in Castle street, is in custody en a charge of wounding her husband by cutting his throat. Ah Kum is in the Hospital. He states that his wife inflicted the wound, while she avers that he did it himself in a fit of jealousy. The cut is not a severe one. The woman is an English woman, and the parties were married three weeks ago. Mrs Ah Kum was brought up before the Resident Magistrate this|morning and remanded for a week, her husband not being fit to appear. Fire. Last evening a cottage at Glen was burned down. The building was insured for £225 and the furniture for £75 in the South British. EM- Conrt. Henry Bice, for stealing a watch, was this morning sentenced to six month*. The charge of rape against John Minton is proceeding. This case arises out of a recent libel case. WELLINGTON, November 17. Captain Holt. Captain Holt, who recently went to Sydney as Beuter's agent, is dangerously ill with cancer in the stomach. The doctor despairs of his recovery. Comrades-in-Arms

Francis Young has been committed for trial for stealing a cheque for £l2 10a from Colonel Whitmore's residence. The colonel said the prisoner was an old color-sergeant in the same regiment as himself, and serred his time very creditably to himself, but was in very straightened circumstances. SuicideJames Taylor, son of the late superintendent of Southland, and a clerk in the Treasury, blew out his brains this morning. AUCKLAND, November IG. No less than nineteen persons were looked up to-day charged with drunkenness and petty larceny. A man named Donnelly was in a house of ill-fame last night, when he was struck on the head with a cup by a disreputable woman. His head was severely cut and bled profusely. The man is in a bad state. At the inquest on the bodies of the Days', father and son, a verdict of "Accidental Death by Drowning " was returned. A Solicitor in Trouble. Maoey Quintal, a solicitor of Tauranga, was charged at the Police Court to-day with forging a bill of sale. GHtAHAMSTOWN, November 15. Lightning struck the mainmast of the cutter Starling at Bagnall's Hauraki sawmills yesterday, cutting out a crescent shaped splinter 7 it. long, and causing much alarm to those on board. Native Matters. The " Advertiser's" Paeroa correspondent says that Tukukino's people have been busily engaged for the last two days in mustering, preparatory to driving off the cattle of Europeans from Komata. block. The Mayoralty. Nominations for the Mayoralty of the Thames takes place on Monday. The Motanui. Mr Firth's steamer Motanui is stranded on a sandbank in the Waihi river. She is heavily freighted. NEW PLYMOUTH, November 15. A little girl, daughter of A. Oolson, fell down a disused well near the racecourse this afternoon, and was drowned. WELLINGTON, November 15. A Daily "Hansard-" It |is now under consideration to publish a daily issue of "Hansard," and it is very probable the idea will be carried out, the publication to be in the simple form of a newspaper sheet. The " Hansard" staff are already doing work that would enable such a scheme to be carried out. It is proposed that the first issue should be regarded as open to correction by members where inaccuracies may have arisen. DUNEDIN, November 15. Nominations. The nomination of candidates for the Mayoralty of Dunedin took plaee to-day. Only two persons were nominated, Mr H. J. Walter, the present Mayor, and Mr H. J. Fish. Mr Walter has been already twice Mayor, and Mr Eish three times. The speeches were exclusively personal in their character. >Mr Walter acknowledged accepting £SO from certain merchants towards payment of his election expenses last year. He charged Mr Fish with maligning him as being a man with no religion, and a Spiritualist. Mr Fish denied this statement, and explained certain charges brought against him by his rival. Messrs Bridgman, W. Bragg, and John Barron, were nominated for the Caversham Mayoralty. The Oalodonian Hotel, Walker street, was burned down this afternoon. Some of the furniture was saved. The furniture and effects were insured in the Standard Office for £IOOO, and the building for £SOO. It was an old wooden structure.