NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2561, 23 June 1882, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND.

[FEB press association.! AUCKLAND, June 22

At the regular meeting of the Auckland Stud Company, T. Morren presided. The statement submitted showed a balance of £24,700 of assets over liabilities. The Glen Orchard estate had been sold at the considerable profit of about £7OOO, and the company had purchased one of the finest farms in the province of 6CO acres, situated between Panmurs and Otabuhu. A dividend of 10 per cent, was declared. The retiring directors, Messrs J. Bennett, 8. Moren, and B. Mitohelson, were re-elected. The capital of the company has been increased from £IO.OOO to £30,000 by the issue of £lO shares, which are offered to the public at £4 premium. One thousand shares only are to be issued. The Manapouri was lighted by electric light to-night. An immense crowd visited the steamer. Palmer Wilson, a ringleader of the Ponsonby larrikins, was fined £5 and costs for obscene language. Mr Alfred Wilson, the presiding justice, told Wilson he would get imprisonment without the option of a fine next time. NEW PIA MOUTH, June 22. Richard Henry Wilson has been arrested at Okaiawa (Waimate Plains), for rape on a girl seventeen years of age, named Mary Ann Butler. It is stated that the crime was committed in March last. Eswi, who is at present at Waitara, is suffering from illness. The indisposition is caused by an old dislocation of the shoulder joint. He is very very “ pouri” anent the recent judgment of the Native Land Gonrt, and he considers the Judges have underrated his authority when they stated he had no power to give away the block of land at Mokau recently under the investigation of the Court. NAPIER, June 22 Tamati Tupntu, the Maori who killed another in a fight at Awatere, on the East coast, was to-day found guilty of manslaughter, and sentenced to seven years’ penal servitude. WELLINGTON. June 32. It is understood that his Excellency the Governor leaves for Fiji to-morrow morning. The weather has now cleared. No damage has been caused by the recent heavy rains. A meeting is to be held on Monday next to take into consideration the expediency of establishing a company with a capital of £200,000 for the purpose of supplying public and private lighting by electricity. It is proposed that the general directory shall be established in Wellington, and that a local directorate shall be formed in Auckland, Canterbury and Dunedin. Messrs Jonbert and Twopeny have telegraphed inviting the leading representatives of the Press now in Wellington to accompany members of the Legislature on the occasion of their approaching visit to Christchurch and the Exhibition. TIMARU, June 22. There is great difficulty experienced in getting vessels to take away the grain with which the stores are still full. A large quantity is being stacked in (he open area. OAMARU, Jane 32.

Darritt, the purser of the Grafton, who fell and fractured his skull yesterday, is still alive. He recovered consciousness to day, but rolapted into delirium, DUNEDIN, June 22.

At the City Court Allan and John Boyd were fined 20s each and costs for a broach of the Rabbit Act.

The death is announced of Mrs Mary Jones, relict of Thomas Jones, brother of the late John Jones, so well known in the early days of Otago as principal merchant, shipowner, Sea. Mrs Jones was the first white woman in Otago, having settled here in 1840 Quartz mining on Oarrick range, Cromwell, is showing signs of revival. Among other old claims to bo reworked is the Star of the East, in which a low level tunnel is to be put in with good prospects. The Chamber of Commerce to-day appointed the Hon. W. H. Reynolds as its representative at the Conference proposed to bo held at Wellington on the Bankruptcy Act. They also passed a resolution approving of ad valorem duties being levied by the Harbor Board instead of by measurement.

The Seamen’s Union held their first annual reunion at Port Chalmers last night. It was very successful. Herr Mosch’s recent concert resulted in £7B being handed over to the Timaru relief fund.

INVERCARGILL, June 22,

At the sitting of the Supreme Court O. B. Martin was charged, under the provisions of the Representation of Elections Act with personating by voting twice at the Wallace election. The evidence clearly showed that the accused while in liquor had voted at two booths some miles apart, though he himself, when put into the witness box on the suggestion of the Judge, denied any recollection of having voted at the second polling place. The jury at once returned a verdict of not guilty. Angus Muir, a lad of fifteen years, was charged with assault with intent on a middle-aged married woman, residing near Edendale, and found not guilty. I The charge against Mr Daniel, come* on to-morrow morning. Mr Stout will conduct the defence, and the Crown Prosecutor, witn him Mr Wade, the prosecution.