NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2548, 8 June 1882, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND.

[PES PBRBO ASSOCIATION.] AUCKLAND, June 7.

The Licensing Court for City East sat today. _ The Commissioners had made a tour of the district, personally inspecting the various houses. The Chairman stated the conclusions come to. All the transfers were granted, and the bulk of renewals also, but about half-a-dozen applications were adjourned tor a fortnight in order that plans may be produced of the promisod reoairs and improvements. A man named Stephenson was wounded in the baok by his young brother, who was playing with pistols. Mr W. G. Wheeler, manager of the Working Men's Club, is not expeoted to survive the injuries received while ejecting a man named Haggett by request from the clubroom. Haggett seized the bannister railing, but on Wheeler's pulling him, he suddenly released his hold, and both men fell down fonrteen steps. Mr Wheeler does not blame anyone for the accident. Peritonitis has set in.

J. B. Strange, eighty years, an old identity of Parnell, died suddenly. WELLINGTON, June 7. The Publio Works Department supply the following particulars regarding the decision of the Appeal Court in the oase of Smyth v the Queen: —The Messrs Brogden claimed £12,006 extras. Of this about £7OO had been allowed and paid for by the Government in 1876. Of the balance, items amounting to £4OOO were referred to Mr Bcott as arbitrator, who awarded less than £IOO. Items involving questions of law, and amounting to £BOOO, were tried before Mr Justice Riohmond, who found against the suppliant on all items except one, amounting to £750. If, therefore, the Crown had waived all technicalities, the suppliant would only have recovered £7OO out of a total of £12,000, or about oneseventeenth of his claim.

At a meeting of the Lambton Licensing Committee to-day three (applications for new licenses were refused, and a fourth adjourned for a fortnight. Applications for renewals were granted, with the exception of one or two, the hearing of which was postponed for a fortnight. In this ward the poll of the ratepayers decided in favor of an increase of publicans' licenses. The weather since Saturday morning has been extremely boisterous, and a continuous strong southerly gale is blowing, accompanied with heavy rain. There is no signs of it abating.

TIMARU, June 7. The weather continues cold and unsettled. A large quantity of enow and rain has fallen in the baok oountry. The Geraldine County Council to-day resolved to forward a letter of congratulation to Sir John Hall on his knighthood. Mr Sutter's Timaru High School Amendment Bill meets with the strong disapproval of the present Board and others, who have never been consulted in the matter.

DTJNEDIN, June 7.

At the Bell Ward Lieensing Court all;the licenses were granted, except in three oases. In one the Bench refused a license to Daniel White on the ground of the applicant's immoral character.

Mr AS. Murray, who has held the position of local manager of the South British Insurance Company for some time, has recently been appointed inspector for that company. Prior to his departure for India and the East he was entertained at a dinner on Tuesday evening by the Underwriters' Association and other friends.

A woman named Mary Crowhurst, the wife of a dairyman, living at Woodhaugh, was found by polioe this morning about one o'clook lying in Howe street. She was taken to the hospital, when her shoulder was found to be dislocated. The woman asserts that the injury was caused by her falling out of a cart.

At a well-attended meeting of volunteers and citizens held to-night, resolutions were passed in favor of securing the holding of the next New Zealand Bifls Association meeting in Dunedin. An influential committee was appointed to canvass the city with the view of ascertaining what support could be expected in the way of subscriptions, and to report to a future meeting. Mr Fish, M.H.R., moved the principal resolution, and promised to aid the movement in Parliament.