NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2593, 29 July 1882, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND.

fPBB HUM ASSOCIATION^ AUCKLAND, July 2*. The ball to the oomm»nder ia postponed, M hail not likely to leave bis ship whilo the weather is unsettled. At the half yearly meeting of the Auckland Ctoi Company a dividend was declared at the rata of 17 per cent. Mr Yiokers stated that he b»d been requeued by a number of

shareholder! to ask if the director* had folloved the example of the Wellington campany in seeking from Parliament power to use the electric light if necessary. The Chairman replied they had written to the Hon. Mr Whitaker on the eubjeot, asking him to see that no injury should be done to the existing gas companies. :The case of bigamy against Samuel Joy is ai singular one. It appears twenty-four years ago he married a half oaate woman at Tapuri, who within half an hour after the completion of the ceremony eloped to the King Country with a Maori lover. In January last Joy contracted a nuatrimonial alliance with a woman named Pramley, who arrived by the Lady Jocelyn, and who it is now understood laid the information. He was brought up to-day and remanded on bail. At the half-yearly meeting of the Kupiri Coal Company a dividend at the rate of 10 per cent, was declared. The monthly output is 2500 tons.

Mr Dafar, Winiata's solicitor, goes to King Country with letters from Winiata to his relatives. Winiata says in them he regards himself as a dead man, and oouneels tbem not to avenge his death. DUNEDIN, July 28.

Tie Otago Rugby Union oarried a resolution last night as follows :—" That Otago Rugby Union have no desire to postpone the annual match; but that if O.R.U. desire to put off their visit to Otago till next season, the O.R.U. will waive their right till then." The Dunedin Telephone Exchange, which started with about sixty subsoribers, has now 113.

Private advices say that when the 'Friaeo mail left, a portion of the troops around London were using New Zealand meat.

Ahem and Williamson were committed for trial today on further ohargea ef burglary at Pelichet Bay Railway Station and the office of Mr Keith Ramsey. "The World" and "New Babylon" season ended to-night. It has been a thorough success. The body of Ferguson, bank olerk, drowned at B&lclutha last Sunday, has not yet been discovered. Eight insolvencies were filed during the week.