NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2245, 9 May 1881, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND.

[FEB PKIM6 AfiBOOIAtIOK.] GREYMOUTH, May 9. s Mr Masters, M.H.R., Resigns. 9 Mr Ed. Maetera has sent his resignation to ( the Speaker from Melbourne, where he ia i now. Hia medical adviser uuys that to attend 3 the coming cession in hia present stete of p health would coat Mir Maßtera hia life. I NEW PLYMOUTH, May 9. Criminal. 9 At the Supreme Oourt the case of Wilkin* son, charged with embezzlement of G-overn- . ment money at Hawera, occupied the whole ; of Saturday. At about nine o'olock at night tho jury retired, and at eleven o'clock they i intimated that they were cot likely to agree. , Judge Richmond aaid he would return to . Oourt at midnight, when he would oonaider . whether or not he would lock them up until . Monday morr.ina. At midnight, there being ■till no sign of their agreeing, the Judge dia- . missed the jury. The same charge will again oome on this morning. Gaiety. , New Plymouth is a centre of attraction f juat now. Simonsen's Opera Company open a to-night for a season of six nights. Professor e Haselmayer is here, and played to a good ? house on Saturday night. ; DUNEDIN, May 9. » Purchase of the Wreck. II The wreck of the (.0. Tararna hai been ■! purchased at auotion by the Union Company a for £2O. p Racing Rumour. e A private telegram reooived here states that e D. O'D. won the Goodwood Cup, at Adelaide. - There was only one investor on the totalis*a tor on the course, and he received £836.