NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2489, 29 March 1882, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND.

[PBB PRESS ASSOCIATION. 3 NELSON, Maroh29. Fire.

A small cottage bolonging to Mrs Adam, and occupied by a men named Flame, was destroyed by fire yesterday. The house was insured for £SO, and the furniture for £BO in the Norwich Union. The Weather.

There is every prospect of fine weather, and there is good sport at the races to-day. PATE A, March 29.

Alleged Infanticide.

Mary O'Sullivan, widow, whose husband was killed by the vehicle accident here eighteen months ago, was arrested last evening for infanticide. The body of a male ohild over a week old was found wrapped in an old towel under her house by somo children. On their alarm the woman removed it, telling them it was a little pig, and when the police arrived she was in the aot of carrying it away in a kit. A string was found tied tightly round the neok of the body. The woman remarked on being removed to the station that she supposed she would get two or three year*. In tho evening she appeared to fully realise her position, and her grief was so great that she is now in a very low state. An inquest will be held this afternoon. Mrs O'Sullivan, who is only about twentyseven years of age, was considered a highly respectable woman before the death of her husband, by whom sho has four children. WELLINGTON, March 29. The Proposed College at Auckland.

By the home mail on Sunday there was a despatch from the Minister of Education requesting the Agent-Genoral to take i&imediate measures to secure two professors for the proposed College at Auokland. Along with Sir Dillon Bell are to be associated the following gentlemen, all well known for their classical and scientific attainments, viz : Dr. Jowett, master of Balliol, Oxford ; Professor Sedgwick, of Cambridge; Professor Tait, of the Edinburg University; and Rev. D. Jellett, Provcst of Trinity College, Dublin. Theso five are appointed a commission to select and appoint the candidates deemed fitted for the respective offices The Chairs to be established are, (1) Classics and English; (2) Mathematics and Mathematical Physics. The emoluments are £7OO a yoar and foes, and the term [of engagement is for five years. It is stipulated that the professors shall be in the colony by January Ist, 1883, so as to leave them time to arrango for entering successfully on their duties. They will aot as agents of the Government until such time as the College is fully established, when other terms and arrangements may be made with them, provided always that these are not worse than the Government terms under whioh they will be engaged.

DUNEDIN, March 29. Ship on Fire ?

Mr Weldon has received the following tolegram from the harbor-master, Mr Thompson—- " Steamer to Cape Saunders saw no boats on the way. Communicated with the lightkeeper, who saw nothing of the ship on fire. Must have been the Stella flaming up." WANGANUI, Maroh2B. Fire. Major Nixon's house at Sergebrook, Wanganui, was totally destroyed by fire this morning. Tho fire originated near the kitohen chimney, and no water being available, spread rapidly. The fire brigade came from town, but too late to save tho building. Major Nixon is an invalid, and fears of his safety were entertained in town, but the weather being fioe, he had gone out into the garden. A portion of the furniture was Bavod, but the library, containing many valuable books and Maori curios, was lost. Tho house was insured in the Liverpool and London for £IOOO. The furniture was uninsured.

[fbom ottb cobkbbpondent.] ASHBUBTON, March 29, Mr Joseph Ivess.

Tho information laid against Mr Joseph Iveas for alleged personation is under the 28th section of the Corrupt Practices Prevention Aot, clause 2, which troats of anyone attaching the name of another person on a claim to have the name inserted on the list of voters without the written authority to do so.