NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1837, 12 January 1880, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND.

[PEBSS ASSOCIATION.] DUNEDIN, January 12. The Interprovincial MatchThe whole of the Oligo team were out for 103 by lunoh time. Collinson made 18 and was caught by Sheath. The Otago men followed their inning?. INYEROABGHLL, January 12. Racing' NewsThe Jockey Club have fixed the races for the 17th and 18th of March. Accidentally DrownedYesterday Thoe. Wi liams, aged eleven, was drowned while bathing in the Makarewaxe Hirer. Death of a Stow-away. Edwin Turner, a stcw-away in the last trip of the Rotorua, died in the hospital on Saturday. He had been engaged as a groom, and was kicked in the abdomen on the 7th. AUCKLAND, January 10. The Dempsey Contract. The notice serred by Mr Stewart, district «n -inoor, on Dempsey, re railway reclamation 1

contract, expired to day. There is general dissatisfaction at the summer weather passing over and nothing being do-ie. A Fase ’Jove. Thomas TVrnon, charged with unshipping a quantity of drapery which had not paid customs duty, was fined £IOO and costa £3 10s. The Waimute Plains Commi sion-

Mohi Tawhai, M. ti R for the northern Maori district, leaves for Wellington, having been telegraphed for to go there at once, being required as one of the commissioners on the Waimate Plains. Catholic High SchoolThe new Catholic High School in Wellington, closed since its erection a year ago, will be opened next week by Esther Downey, on« of Archbishop Steene’g nt w priests. Mining SewsFor some time p ml. turners have been circulated about a Ngaruawhaia goldfield; to-day the result of a trial test that was made at the Thames was received. It, was fifty specs, as fine as fl ur, f-cra 105 ounces of quartz. The White F sh OvaAt a meeting of the Aoclimati-ation Society a letter was road from the Premier requesting Mr Firth to undertake the unpacking and transfer of the wnite fi-h ova from the mail steamer, and forwarding them to their destination The total number of boxes isforty on , eleven of which are for Auckland. It was agreed that Mr Firth should deposit ova in Lakes Tarawara and Taupo, the council guaranteeing the expenses of transport. Mr Firth said he would hatch one of the parcels of ova in the domain ponds by way of experiment. Webh v- EdgecnmhsWebb has compromised the action for alleged ibel against Edgccambe, which was set dawn for hearing at the present civil sittings. January 11. Mission for Merchant SeamenThe Anglican Mission for m-rchant seamen in port was inaugurated. Bishop Oowie conducted the first service to-day in the long room of the New Zealand Insurance Company’s buildings. WELLINGUON, January 11. Stabbing Case. A stabbing case occurred on Friday night. It appears that two seamen belonging to the barque Babington had a fight, when one them named Alexander Martin took a sheath knife and severely stabbed the other man in the neck, making three incised wounds. The police have arrested Martin for unlawfully wounding.

PORT CHALMERS, January 10.

Earthquake.

A smart shock of ear hquake from N.E. to S.E. was experienced here at 2 a.m. DUNEDIN, January 11.

Inquest-

At the irquest on William Desmond, the ju.-y found that death was caused by epilepsy, occasioned by excess 're drinking, and accelerated by poison. Neil, the herbalist, who sold poison to the deceased, was censured for not taking better precautions in selling the same. The poison consisted of vermin killer, which contains strychnine