NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2504, 17 April 1882, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND.

I PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. I THAMES, April 15. Local Option Voting-. The first poll under the Local Option clauses yesterday in the south ward of the borough resulted in a small majority against an increase of licenses, with the same result in the Tarawa riding of the Thames County. The Gaming ActA fruiterer named McDonnell was sen. fenced by the Justices to three months' imprisonment for allowing gambling on his premises. AUCKLAND, April 15. The Volunteer Land Claims The lend claims before the Koyal Commission on Volunteer land claims numbered 1500 ; about one in seventy-five was grouted. The Commission leave for Taranaki on Tuesday, thence to Wanganui. Breach of DutySergeant Kidd’s dismissal ia stated to be owing to the Commissioners discovering that Kidd had forwarded to Napier for the republication in Napier newspapers a newspaper article reflecting on the police management.

DrownedThe body of Charles Lee, drowned on Good Friday, was found at Stokes' Point. April 16. A Severe SentenceAfter three days* trial, Mikare te Papapa, who stabbed another Maori to the heart in a drunken brawl on the Oxford racecourse, Waikato, some months ago, was found guilty of manslaughter, but recommended to mercy by the jury. Judge Gillies disregarded the reoommendation, and sentenced the prisoner to penal servitude for life. WANGANUI, April 16. Fnneral. The funeral of Mr Frank Parkes (who died very suddenly from heart disease at Kgarua on Friday evening) took plaoe here at three o'clock to-day. There was a very large following, the deceased having been very generally respeoted. He was one of the oldest settlers in this district, bis parents having arrived in the colony in 1842, when he was only seven years of age. The sad intelligence of his death, when it retched town on Saturday, caused general sorrow end regret. TIMARU, April 16. Railway ExtensionThe tender of W. J. Black has been accepted for the first contract of the Waimate Gorge Bail way.