NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2584, 19 July 1882, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND.

{.PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) AUCKLAND, July 18. The civil session of tho Supremo Court commenced to-day. Clark v Scott, £IOO damages for trespass, is now being heard. Winiata occupies his time smoking and reading the Bible. Information has been received of the seizure at the Bay of Is ands, by tho Customs authorities, of 406ib of tobacco on the American whaler Adelina Gibbs, not entered on the manifest. The Bev. Mr Hawkea, on the way from Whangeroa, narrowly ceo-ped drowning when crossing a creek, his horse having been roiled over by a fresh.

Sergeant. Jackson, while searching for the deranged girl Sarah Swann in the Domain, fell down a slope. On being examined two days after, it was discovered that he had several ribs broken.

WELLINGTON, July 18. The Magistrate’s Court was occupied all day hearing a charge preferred against James Jonathan Adams, his wife, and their young daughter, who were the principal witnesses in a ease of a young man named Longburot, convicted in 1880 for committing rape on the last named, for maliciously conspiring to convict Longhurst. The case will extend over to-morrow.

Information has been received that telegraphic communication on the Turkish route is interrupted beyoad Bunreha. DUNEDIN, July 18 The weather here all day has been very wintry, rain, snow, and hail alternating. It ie now clearing a little. Davidson and Conyers have called a meeting of their creditors, and assigned their estate to Messrs Houghton and Stronach, the principal creditors. The debt due to the National Bank amounts to seventeen or eighteen thousand, and those of the other creditors about £4OOO.

Oapt. Kitchener, who was injured by the recent fire, is not now progressing so favorably as could be liked. At the Police Court to-day Messrs Neil and Parke, bondsmen for Outhbert McKellar, who was arrested at the Bluff, were asked to show cause why their bail should not be estreated, but the question was adjourned till Thursday.