NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2527, 16 May 1882, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND.

[PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. I AUCKLAND, May 15. At the first annual meeting of the Northern Steamship Company the report showed a net profit for tho year of £8550, allowing depreciation £IOOO and insurance fund £2OOO. A dividend of 10 per cent was declared. The company now has nine steamers trading out of Auckland, and a steamer on the stocks for tho Tanranga and tho Bay of Plenty trade. Another, the size of the Wellington, is soon to be on the Tauranga, Russell, and Auckland trade. NEW PLYMOUTH, May 15. A meeting of Halae and Roy’s creditors took place this afternoon. A report was brought up by the committee, which showed that Halse’s liabilities were £8863, and his assets £5131, Halse and Roy’s estate liabilities £12,004, assets £2297. The meeting adjourned for a fortnight, for the purpose of allowing Roy to make an offer of composition in the separate estates. WELLINGTON, May 15. A child, whose parents are unknown, wa* found drowned in a stream at Otaki. The cable across Cook’s Straits has been spliced, and is now in thorough working order. A slight deviation has been made from the previous course. The cable steamer Agnes has returned to port. W. M. Vausr, against whom his wife obtained a divorce at the Court this morning, made a determined attempt at suicide this evening by shooting himself. He proceeded to Maginnity’u boardinghouse, where he was lodging, and went upstairs apparently in his usual spirits. Shortly afterwards a loud report was heard, and on the landlord rushing upstairs ho found Yauso lying en the bed partially dressed, and a carbine lying by his side. He then ascertained that Vause had shot himself in the loft lung, and that the bullet after passing through the shoulder blade stuck just inside the akin at the back. It is thought that the divorce preyed on his mind. Dr. Rawson, who attended him, holds out very slight hopes of recovery, Vause is about thirty-seven years of age, and is wellknown in Dunedin.

OAMARU, May 15. Not withstanding that the sea which rolled into the bay was the heaviest experienced since the .breakwater was commenced, that structure sustained no damage worth mentioning. Tho rails upon which the crane travels were torn from the sleepers by the force of the oea, but beyond this no apparent injury has been done. The shipping lay perfectly safe alongside the wharf and in the bay under the lee of the wall. A man named William Watson, who has obtained money from four different hotelkeepers in the district, in sums varying in amount from £1 to £5 by means of valueless cheques, was to day sentenced to six months upon the first and second charges, the sentences to be cumulative. The farmers here have determined to petition Parliament regarding the small bird nuisance. They propose that County Councils should have power to grant sums of money out of the ordinary rates for the purpose of abating the nuisance. DUNEDIN, May 15. At Port Chalmers on Saturday night, at 9.30 o’clock, John Tyler, fireman on the barque Mataura, fell over the wharf whilst going aboard. Mr D* Logan, of the Customs Department, jumped over after him and brought him safely ashore. This is the second time within a month Mr Logan has jumped off the pier aud saved a drowning man. Messrs Thomas and Hill of Amberley, are tho successful tenderers for the Horsley Down section of the Waikari-Hurunui line, north of Christchurch. The amount of their their tender is £9395. An extraordinary meeting of the shareholders in the Standard Fire and Marine Insurance Company was held this afternoon for the purpose of confirming tho resolutions altering the articles of association, passed at the meeting held on 3rd April. The chair was taken by Mr John Reid, on whose motion it was unanimously agreed to confirm the resolutions.