NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1935, 7 May 1880, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND.

[PEE PBE3S ASSOCIATION.] AUCKLAND, May 7. Evading the Customs. At the Police Court to-day, Sarah Boetock was charged with evading the Customs duties on a quantity of jowellery, brought by the ship Ben Nevis. The goods consisted of twenty gold watches, lockets, rings, pins, brooches, tea services, buttons, two cases of jewellery, shoes, and clothing. Mr Brookfield, Crown Prosecutor, prosecuted. She was fined £ICO and costs, with the alternative of sis months' imprisonment. Mr Brookfield withdrew a second charge. The Bench hoped that her personal effects would be returned. Mr Erookfield replied that everything was forfeited, but no doubt her clothing and necessaries would be returned. Post-sessional Address. Mr Reader Wood addresses his constituents to-night. Theatrical. Miss Clara Stevenson is coming to Auckland. Shipwrights' GrievancesThe Auckland Shipwrights' Association | have adopted rules and appointed an executive

committee to protect the interests of the ship- ] ping trade and to communicate with Government respecting their grievances. One grievance is the payment for overtime after Customs' hours for work done on ships from outside the colony. The late Attempt at MurderSmith, the Frenchman, who attempted to , shoot Mrs Waßher, of Whangharei, and her husband, has boen arrested. A further tele- , gram shows that Smith made improper pro- ( posals to Washer's wife, which she rejected. , DTTNEDIN, May 7. , Hining News- ! Mining news from the Cromwell and Nevis district are hpslthy. The Cromwell Company crushed 168oza from 163 tons. ( BVom Radford' claim of the Carrick, 120ozs , from 100 tons. The Last Chance claim crushed 180 tons for 140ozs. AUCKLAND, May 6. ' Sir G- GreySir Q-. Grey proceeds South in the To Ansa about May 12th, and -ill probably address meetings at Christohurch, Dunedin, and Invercargill. The Happy SouthMr Seymour George was a passenger by the Ringarooma for the South to-day, and will visit Canterbury and Dunedin before the session. AccidentA r man named J. Patten was severely injured in the Waikato coal mine through the tall of two tons of coal on him. Free Library. The City Council intend fitting up the Mechanics' Institute, for| the purpose of a free library. Civil Service Commission. The Civil Service Commission examined to-doy Mr W. Eliott, locomotive foreman on the railway ; Mr S. Lowe, traffic manager ; Mr R. 0. Barstow, 8.M.; Mr 8. B. Biss, postmaster ; and Superintendent Thomson. The commissioners go to Waikato on Saturday, and leave for Wanganui on Tuesday, by the Hawea. Professor Procter. Professor Procter does not lecture here at at present, but leaves for Sydney on Tuesday, and commences his lecturing tour at Meli bourne. Sadden Deathi At the evangelistic service to-night of the Young Men's Christian Association, while singing a hymn, a man named John Metcalfe dropped down dead. He is believed to have died from heart disease. He had no ' friends in Auckland, and had been in ; straiiened circumstances and out of employ- \ ment for some time. \ Extraordinary Attempt at Murder- > An attempted murder took place last night at Whangarei. Between eight and nine o'clock. ' Mr Edwin Washer came into the township and P reported to constable Hammond that Jas. Smith I had attempted to murder him and his wife by firing two rounds of ball cartridge at them from a six-barrelled revolver. On Constable k Hammond visiting the scene of the outrage, he found a revolver on the floor with two chambers empty and four loaded. One of . tho balls was found lodged in the leather of Washer's braoes at the back. After the shots were fired, the men closed, and a sheath knife dropped from the would-be assassin's coat. Meantime, Mrs Washer, who was present at the time, had succeeded in making her escape to a neighbour's houae, where she gave the alarm. No reason can as yet be assigned for tho outrage. Before the con- ' stable had arrived, Smith had succeeded in making his escape. Constable Hammond was in search of him the whole night, but without success. In the meantime the search still continues. Smith is supposed to be concealed somewhere in the bush. Sir G- Grey. Sir George Grey has definitely decided to address a public meeting on Tuesday next, as Mr Eeader Wood speaks to-morrow evening. Evading the Customs. From information received by the polioe to-day, detectives went to the residence of a Mrs Bostock, in the suburbs, who recently arrived from England by the ship Ben Nevis, and seized a quantity of gold and silver watches, tea and coffee services, also a large quantity of boots, shoes, drapery, and other dutiable goods. No satisfactory explanation ' being forthcoming, Mrs Bostock was arrested. She h s a large family. How the goods were , landed and the vigilance of the customs officer evaded is a profound mystery. NEW PLYMOUTH, May 6. Criminal Sessions. In the Bupreme Court this morning, before Judge Richmond, the Grand Jury returned no bill against Douglas for attempted suicide - at Hawera, and true bills against John Dale for indecent assault on hia own child, aged " twelve years, and William Cole for larceny. i John Dale was then arraigned on the charge. His ohild, who had given conclusive evidence 1 against her fathor at the police court \ and District Court, when the case fell through owing to the indictment not being f signed by the Crown prosecutor, denied that tho evidence she had given was 9 true. Judge Richmond asked the child if she meant that what she said on those occasions was not true, and she replied that none of it was true. After hearing one or two witnesses the i judge direoted the jury to return a verdict of not guilty. W. Cole, for stealing a rug from l the Katemarea Hotel, was arraigned and the case adjourned till to-morrow. WELLINGTON, May 6. Loudon v- EdwardsAt tho Supreme Court the case of Loudon 1 v Edwards was heard. This is an action t hrought by a storekeeper at Foxton to recover £SOO damages and £3OO special damages from Mr Edwards, of the firm of Messrs Moorhouse, Cutton, and Edwards, for loss at a sale of furniture, incurred through defendant's conduct while acting as his solicitor. After ■ hearing plaintiff's case a nonsuit was entered. The Civil Service ActThe following alteration has been made in r the regulations under the Civil Service Act—- [ " The daily travelling allowance will be paid for any day, during eight hours of which an officer shall be absent from his usual residence, but reasonable expenses actually incurred will be paid in all other cases on the production of proper vouchers." Telegraph Eevenue. The following are the returns of the telegrams forwarded and revenue received during t ;e qi arter ending March 31at: —Forwarded, £342 862 ; oaah revenue recoived, £18,300 2s 1 7d. During the corresponding quarter in 1879. ' the telegrams forwarded were 391,437 and the c\sh revenue £21,993 6a 6i. The value of Government telegrams transmitted during the quarter ending March, 1880, was £6163 17s 9cl, and for the corresponding quarter in 1879, 1 £7195 14a 7d. The Pleuro-pneumonia. A notice, confirming the declaration made by the South Auckland Cattle Board of infested places appears in the " Gazette." WESTPORT, May 6. The Railway Commission. Mr Curtis, one of the Royal Commission on E lilways, arrived from Rejfton last evening, and left for Nelson by the Murray this morning. The other members of tho commission went to Nelson overland from Lyell. HOKITIKA, May 6. Mining NewsA small party of miners writing from Big Bay under date 20th April, state that they are earning about 35s a week each. They add, "As there is any quantity of fish and gamo we can live for about 7s or 8a a week. It is a wonder some of the unemployed do not come down here in place of hanging about the towns. They might put in the winter here very comfort ably." A miner working on his own account at Okarito Forks is reported to have extracted gold to tho value of £250 in eleven week 3. He sold the gold to a Bank in Eoaa, tnd has returned to hia work. The recent rush to tho Forks is not so well reported of, the ground being very patchy, and only one or two claims are as vet payable. TIMAKU, May 6. South Canterbury Education Board The Education Board of South Canterbury have decided to make tho offices of inspector arid secretary, now combined, separate appointments, tho inspector to receive a salary of £IOO ard travelling expenses, and the secretary £3OO. DUNEDIN, May 5. Judge "WilliamsJudge Williams has left to attend the Court of Appeal. Fire Police- j The City Council haa declined to establish [ a fire police.