NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2237, 3 June 1881, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND.

[>BB PBBSS ASSOOTAHON.J AUCKLAND, June 3. Incendiarism. Messrs V. and J. O. Bindon have been arrested on a charge of setting fire to their premises last night. They were brought up at the Police Court to-day and remanded for a week, bail being granted on the application of prisoner's counsel. Wreck. The cutter Teazer was wreoked on her

■voyage to Wade. No lives were lost. The vessel was owned by Mr McKeown, of Auckland. The Detached SquadronThe City Council has arranged fox a citizans' ball in honor of the visit of the detached squadron. An address and other usual tokens of weloome have also been decided on. Pays for being Silent. Mr Christopher Oreenway, a wealthy landowner, was committed to prison for seven days for refusing, point blank, to answer a question put to him as a witness, in an embezzlement caso against a man employed by the city night soil contraotor. WELLINGTON, June 3. Appeal Court. At the Appeal Court, in the case Queen v Moritzan (Dunedin), the oonviotion was affirmed, and judgment ordered to be given at tbe nox' circuit sittings of the Supreme Court in Ltanedin. Io Meroer v Queen the demurrer was overruled, and leave given to plead within twenty-eight days on payment of the costs. In Murphy v Queon (Christchurch), judgment was reserved, there being a manifest error in the first and second counts of the indictments, and that a rooord be remitted to the Court below, in order that it may pronounce proper judgment thereupon. In Kilbeme Ratepayers v tho Hutt County Counoil, the Court hold that the plaintiffs had good cause for action, and the demurrer ought to bo overruled with costs.