NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2477, 15 March 1882, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND.

[PKB PBEBB ASSOCIATION.! AUCKLAND, March 14. SportingThe entries for the Auckland Easter Handicap, Steeplechase, and Autumn Handicap close on Friday at half-past nine o’clock. Compensation for Injury. Dr. Moore having commenced legal proceedings against the Union Company for damages sustained through an accident on board the Rotorua, the Company have compromised the action by a money compensation. A Bigamous Woman. Elizabeth Darrah has been committed for trial for bigamy. Harrow EscapeA man had a narrow escape at the public baths of drowning. In diving, he struck his head on the bottom and was stunned. He was rescued by other swimmers present. NAPIER, March 14. The Breakwater. At a meeting of subscribers to the Bluff breakwater fund to night, it was decided to employ a professional man to report on G-oodalTs scheme. The feeling is the scheme would be a success if carried out. A report showed that without calculating on the increased trade due to bettor harbor accommodation. sufficient revenue could be relied upon to pay interest on £20.000, in addition to working expenses and interest on the present Harbor Board loan. An ElopementA painful elopement is reported from the country district. A cowherd employed upon the station of a well-known runholder, in the absence of the father, ran away with the daughter, who is mentally afflicted, and can hardly be held responsible for her actions. The pair obtained a license and were married. They were about to drive off in a buggy when the father and brother drove up, took the yonng lady away, and well merited chastisement was inflicted on the fellow who induced her to leave her father’s roof. In all probability an application will be made to the Courts to have the marriage cancelled, on the ground that the young lady was nob capable of understanding the nature of the step she took. The Petroleum Springs. The report telegraphed from the South that the workmen had been turned off the Southern Gross Petroleum Company’s claim is contradicted by the directors. Chief Ropata stopped the work for some days, but on ex.

planationa being made removed hi« embargo, and it now advising the Natives to perfect the lease. Sporting. Lady Emma is the favorite for the Onp at 6t04j4 to lis offered bar one. A large number of strangers are in town for the races. WELLINGTON, March 14. CrimeAt the Magistrate's Court this evening Ellen Fuller was committed for trial on a charge of setting fire to goods on her premises in Mulgrava street with intent to defraud the London, Liverpool and Q-lobe Insurance Company. J. O. Huysmana was also committed for trial for forging and uttering a cheque of tbe value of £4. Mrs Hannoy was convicted of Sunday trading, and mulcted in the penalty of £2 and costs. AquaticHearn and Messenger are training assiduously for the championship boat race. Betting at present is even. TIMARU, March 14. Proposed Naval BrigadeAt the annual meeting of the Tim am Volunteer Rocket Brigade held to-night, a committee was appointed to communicate with the Government in regard to the forming of a Naval Brigade at Timaru. OAMARU, March 14. ImpecuniousIt is said that one of the reasons which will stand against the Oamaru Volunteers joining in the proposed review at Dunedin is that the Volunteers from that and other places have not yet paid off the indebtedness incurred here at the last review.