NEW ZEALAND

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2232, 23 April 1881, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND

[riiK PBBBS ASSOCIATION.] AUCKLAND, April 22. Hardened or Siily. Thomas Fidgett, uliua Shelon, sentenced to penal servitude at the oriminal sessions of the Supreme Court in April, 1879, for setting fire to stacks at Otahuhu, died suddenly in Mount Eden Gaol. He had previously tried to throw a train off the rails. He is said to have been a lioutonant in the Royal Navy. The Lincolnshire Delegates.

Captain Steele, Messrs Grant and Foster's agent, has settled all outstanding difficulties, and expeots to put some of the aottlers who are already here on the land at once. Insure! Mr Cola, basketmaker, who was burnt out at the late fire, had insured in the Victoria office for eighteen years. The inspector on the last visit to Auckland declined to renew owing to the character of the buildings. Cole was so disgusted that he did not try another office, and has lost all. Blunting the Lance. Mr Wiokham, of the " Free Lance," has been committed for trial on a charge of libelling Mr Hurst, M H.R. for City West. Bail waa allowed, himself in £2OO, and two sureties of £IOO each. Time is Money. The Harbor Board has increased the engineer's salary to £450, on condition of his giving hie whole time to the Board. Legal. Mr Justice Bichmond, in Chambers, gave leave to appeal in the case National Bank v John Uncles, in two applications under the Land Transfer Act. The Judge sustained the Registrar's refusal to register certain lands the title of which was not individualised.

' Kellyism in Embryo. A boy named Mulhern, aged fourteen years, belonging to the Industrial Home, was placed out with Mr Wyatt, Kaipara. He has stolen a horse, saddle, and bridle, a sealskin rug, and tomahawk, and taken to the bush. The horse has been recovered, but the police have not succeeded in capturing Mulhern. Caught a Tartar. The Tararua brought six Chinese from Sydney for Auckland. They are described as miners. Chimerical. The report which has been going the rounds of the papers that Mr F. M. P. Brookfleld has been appointed a Judge of the Native Court, turn's out to be a canard. Scholastic At a meeting of the Board of Governors of the Anokland Grammar School, Sir G. M. O'Rorke was elected chairman. A letter was read from the Hon. W. Rolleston re the application that he would seleot a head master, which he presumed had been sent to him as Minister for Education. He had resigned that offioo, and as a private individual, he declined to entertain the request. A committee was appointed to oommunicate with the governing body of tho Canterbury High School as to the question of the head master. Publicans' Triumph. Soveral police cases against publicans for breaches of tho Liconsing Act broko down. WANGANUI, April 22. Suicide. The medical examination of the man Peake, who was found dead in his house, disolosed the fact that he hsd poisoned himself with strychnine. The jury returned a verdict that ho committed suicide while in a state of temporary insanity. WELLINGTON, April 22. Can't Dilute our Grog. There is a probability of a water famine in Wellington, tho water in the reservoir having the extraordinarily low depth of 12ft. 9in. How Kind.

Lady Gordon arrives at Auckland from Sydney on Tuesday. Tho Hinemoa leaves here on Sunday to convoy her ladyship to Wellington, Westward Ho! Tho prospects of the West Coaßt railway (North Island) continuo favorable. My Friend the Dook. The Duke of Manchester starts on a tour through the Manawatu district to-morrow. DUNBDIN, April 22. The " Times'" Bottom Dollar. The annual meeting of the " Daily Times" and "Witness" Company was held to-day. The balance-sheet showed the nott profit for the year to be £1340 4s.