NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2558, 20 June 1882, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND.

fPEB PRESS ASSOCIATION. | AUCKLAND, June 19,

Ellen Kelly was arrested (B b charge bigamy, having murried Alex. Davidj;n on the 10th October, her husband, William Kelly, being then alive. She was remanded, Peter Stromberjr, master of the cutter Ooralie, and Samuel Olegg were seriously injured by a stack of timber falling upon them.

A maa named Tome was found on the Otahuhu road in an unconß'ious *uvto. He wai Buffering from internal injuries, and was brought to the Hotpital. The Theatre Eojal bag been fitted up with fire escapes.

WANGANUI, June 19

A well attended meeting ot persona interested in temperance was held in the CityHall this evening. A resolution rr?.r parried unanimously in favor of a petition to Parliament against the amendment of the licensing Act, on the ground that the Act should have a fair trial.

WELLINGTON, June 19. It is stated that his Excellency will 1 are for Fiji in H.M.S. Miranda on Thursday. The Hutt train ran into a horse this morning. No damage was dona to the locomotive, but the horse was terribly injured.

A young man named Edward Eussell was thrown from his horse on Saturday, and had his collar bone broken, in addition to severe wounds about the head. Qia condition critical.

Hull’* comedy company, after a successful season of four nighte, left for Auckland thisevening.

TIMABU, June 19.

Three stacks of wheat at Otipiia, the property of Charles Delamain, were burnt yesterday morning. Ko clue to the cause of thefire. The stacks were insured for £3OO in the New Zealand office. A brewery at Geraldine, belonging to Edmund Berry, »o« burnt last night. It was insured in the Victoria Fire and Marine Office for £IOO.

The ship City of Perth, stranded on May the 14th, was successfully towed off thia afternoon by the tug Lyttelton. Sae will be taken to Port Chalmers to be docked. DUNEDIN, June 19.

Mr J. M. Massey has instituted proceedings by quo warranto to compel the City Council to reinstate him in the office of Town Clerk.

Mr Justice Williams has accepted the position of President of the New City and Suburban Cricket Aesociation.

The City Guards’ Company won the Union B.S. Oo.’s Oup at the Nelson Kifls Meeting the year before last. The members of tha company then fired amongst themselves for its possession, and owing to protests, disputes, and in one case an action at law, the struggle to obtain it has been continued ever since. At last three members, who each claimed it, agreed to fire off for it, and this has resulted in Corporal Webster being declared the winner. Volunteer Flood, who instituted the law action for it, led until the last range of the final match, when he lost ground badly. The three gentlemen who claim by virtue of election to hold the position "of Licensing Committee for Linden, held their adjourned meeting to-day, but the borough clerk, who is also clerk to the Licensing Bench, locked the Council Ohßmber on them, and refused to recognise them. Then they adjourned, to a store close by, taking this course by advice of a solicitor, who holds that under sab-section 8 they are entitled to hold office. I hey proceeded to reconsider the applications for now licenses already decided adversely by tho gazetted Bench of five. One of the three said ho had been advised not to transact any business, although ho was willing to moot till it could be determined whether they really are the Licensing Committee. After a good deal of discussion the trio adjourned till July 7th, on which date the cazatted committee also hold a meeting. At Dunedin South the question came up whether a transfer could be granted to a person who has become bankrupt since his application. Counsel held that this was allowable, as the licemo would immediately become vested in tha trustee. Tha committee, however, adjourned the case tor a week, to admit of a fresh applicant being procured for the premises.

One of the suburban Borough Councils to-night passed a resolution asking Messrs Seaton and Barron, M.H.K.’s, to bring in an amendment of the Licensing Act, to constitute local bodies the Licencing Committees.

The Mornington Wire Cable Tramway Company has been established with a capital of £30,000. Eight thousand shares were taken up at a mealing of the promoters to-day, and an offer was made by a financial firm to furnish the rest of tho capital required. Tho works are expected to cost £20,000. The prospectus of an Oiago Dairy Association is published. . Mr Guthrie, shipping agent, receivoa a telegram to-day from Captain Mutheson tuat he has had to put in to Oama;u wind-bound. He adds, “ Passed what appeared a vessel bottomup on Tuesday night.” Thio would be near Claps Saunders. INVERCARGILL, Jure IS.

At tho nest meeting of the Borough Council Mr J. Ij. McDonald will move that a egislative authority be obtained for 'jo borrowing cf £2o ; 000, to further prosecute harbor works in the New River, and for the reclamation of the Fore emore adjacent to the town of Invercargill, the construction of wharfage accommodation, receiving, Ac. Thirteen prisoners, against whom there arc nineteen ch&rgss, await trial at the Supreme Court opening here on Wednesday. Xiio charges include arson, uttering, assault, attempted rape, personation at election, embezzling and la; ceny. One men has been in gaol since the beginning of January, and another eir.ee February last. An opinion is expressed that the sittings of the Court should bo mote frequent.