NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2533, 22 May 1882, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND.

[PBB PRESS ASSOCIATION.J AUCKLAND, May 20. An extraordinary general meeting of shareholders ot the South British Insurance Company confirmed a resolution passed on tho 10th April for the purpose of enlarging the powers of the directors in regard to investment. The Natives Pakara and Bpiha, arrested at Waikato, were brought down from Waikato by the evening train. Bpiha was identified. Frank B. Scott, charged with drawing beer from a cask with tho stamp undofaoed, was fined 20s and costs. The police are rigidly prosecuting publicans for Sunday trading. Major Te Wheoro, M.H.R., is a passenger by the Albion for Wellington. He is understood to be the bearer of certain proposals from Kingites to the Government. BLENHEIM, May 20.

An awfully sudden death occurred to day. Mr Wm. Bliok came into town to-day in order to be present at the Agricultural Show and act as one of tho judges. As he was walking down High street to tho place where the show was being held ho was met by a friend, to whom he remarked—“ I think lam going to have a fit," tho words being scarcely out of his mouth when ho fell backward on to the ground. He was carried into tho Club Hotel, and Dr. Cloghorn sent for. On his arrival he pronounced life to be extinct. The cause of death was heart disease. The deceased was well known throughout the district.

DUNEDIN, May 20. The privilege* for the Queen’s Birthday race meeting brought £44 (without gates ) Pressure has been brought to bear on the Government to expedite the removal of the lunatics to the new asylum at Saaolifl, so that the present site of the asylum in the oity may be utilised for a now High School buildings. It is expected these will bo began within three or four months.

The committee of the Chamber of Commerce has recommended the Chamber to lend every assistance towards forwarding a movement for the establishment ot an Agricultural College in Dunedin. INVERCARGILL, May 20.

At the Police Court this morning, Thomas William Tait, charged with embezzlement of Government moneys, was remanded until Thursday. The county solicitor has informed the Southland Council that no provision having been made in tho now Licensing Act, therefore no license fees were eligible for keepers of billiard and bagatelle tables. During the past month fifteen cattle belonging to one cottier have been run over and killed on the unfenced railway line between Invercargill and the Bluff. A strange feature of the accidents is that nearly all the cattle are run over in daylight.