NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2248, 12 May 1881, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND.

[PUB PBBBS ASSOCIATION,! AUCKLAND, May 11. Concordance. Mrs Orudens and family, who have been detained in quarantine at Motuibi, since the arrival of the City of New York, have been released by Dr. Philaon, health officer, all danger of further infection being considered at an end. Tired Shop-Girls. The result of the police inspection of the manufactories was that not a single one complied with the provisions of the Employment of Females Act. The employers have been allowed a fortnight’s grace. Rum Hot. The prosecution of the sailors of the ship Oxford, for broaching cargo, cost Captain Braddick £2OO. Dothehoys School. The Waikato police have laid three informations against Shepherd, a Whatawhata settler, for illusing John Muir and Elizabeth Hill, children from the Home for Neglected Children. One information charges Shepherd with tying Muir to a dray and dogging him with supplejacks; another with knocking down and cruelly beating the girl; and a third with neglecting to provide them with proper food end clothing. A constable went to the farm to investigate. The boy is about eleven years of age. It is said that the boy was lodged in a place little better than a pigsty, and his food was thrown to him like a dog, and that he had even got nothing better at times to eat than raw potatoes. He had tried on more than one occasion to escape, but was retaken. Another boy bad bolted, and succeeded in escaping. The constable saw quite sufficient on arrival at tbe place where the boy was lodged, and heard enough from his lips, to warrant him in removing him at once to Hamilton, and in returning for the girlShepherd was brought up to-day, aud the charges of ill-treating the boy Muir were dismissed, os the evidence was contradictory, and the hoy was confused as to dates. For the assault on the girl he was fined £5, or three months. The Magistrate directed the police to find the boy who is stated to have witnessed tbe assault on Muir, but who had absconded from Shepherd’s service, and if his evidence corroborated the children’s, to indict the defendant for perjury. Hew S.S- Co.

Some Auckland steamers have been thrown into a company, to be called the Northern Steam Shipping Company of New Zealand, Limited. The capital is £150,000, but only £IOO,OOO is to be issued at present in shares of £l. It is stated that mutually satisfactory arrangements were made between Captain McGregor and tbe Union Company on Mr Mills’ last visit. The present scope of the company’s operations is to be confined to all towns on the coast north of the East Cape on the east side, and to the North Cape and Wanganui on the western side. WELLINGTON, May 11. Sit down. Sir! At the Magistrate’s Court to-doy, Ellen Frost, Mary O'Kane, and Ellen Nolan appearedfon remand, on information of the late Superintendent Whitelaw, charging them with having on February 10th illtreated a female patient. The information was laid just previous to tbe appointment of the recent Royal Commission, but was adjourned to enable the Commissioners to send in their report before hearing the oha-ge. The Bench was of opinion that th jre was not suffioisnt evidence of ill treatment o£ the patient, and accused were discharged. WESTPORT, May IX; Harborworks. At a public meeting held on Monday evening, it was resolved to urge Government to proceed with works for the improvement of the harbor, such works being of great importance to the whole colony, as well as to the district. The Last Crushing. A goldminer named Heriokson was killed in a tunnel at Walmangoroa by a stone crushing bis bead. TIMARU, May 11. Bible in School. The Timaru school committee resolved last night by a large majority, not to favor the reading of the Bible in schools. AthleticsThe annual sports of the South Canterbury Amateur Athletic Club commenced to-day. Trophies to the value of £2OO are to be competed for. There was a fair attendance. OAMARU, May XI. Population. The population of the electoral district of Waitaki is 13,348, made np of 7319 males and and 6029 females. At the census in 1878 it was 11,695. DUNEDIN, May 11. Money is TightMr Gardiner’s last shipment of Bundoora yearlings not having been sold, are being taken back to Victoria by tho Ringarooma. Only one waa disposed of—a black filly by Fortrose —for £ICO. Votes. Applications for electoral registration since the last rolls were made up are coming in very slowly. The total number for Dunedin is 273, for Roslyn 80, and Oaversham 61.