NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2602, 9 August 1882, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND.

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AUCKLAND, August 8. Applications have been received here from Gisborne for 800 shares in tbe new Mutual Fire Insurance Company. The Harbor Board have resolved to grant £SOO towards the estimated cost of £I6OO of connecting Tirltiri lighthouse by telegraph cable to the mainland.

Moore, who attempted suicide, is said to bo improving. There are no signs of inflammation, and hopes are entertained that be will recover.

At a meeting of the Harbor Board it was resolvon to offer a foreshore of nearly four acres applied fat by the Sugar Defining Company at auction for fifty years' lease, at & nominal rental of £5 per annum for twenty years, £7 10s for tbe next thirty years. An amendment for a thirty-three years 1 lease was rejected by nice to two. The conditions are, land to be reclaimed and a wharf and sugar refinery erected within three years, WELLINGTON, August 8: v A breach of promise case will be heard at next cessions of the Supreme Court. The plaintiff is a young lady who was, until lately, engaged in a stationer’s shop, while the defendant is a clerk in Government service. The damages are fixed at £3OO The case of Hnrrey v the Bank of New South Wales, which commenced on Wednesday, is nut yet concluded. The Judge will sum up to-morrow. DUNEDIN, August 8, At a local option poll at Tokomairiro, fifteen out of 45 Jou roll voted. The number would not have been so large only the returning officer was clerk to the Road Beard, and held several cheques for contractors, who, on going for them, were induced to record their votes. The second deposit in the match for tha champion mile race, Burke v O’Connor, is to be made to-night. At a conference ofthe Dunedin ministers it was stated that Dr. Stephenson, of London, was likely to visit here in November next, and the following resolution was passed:—“ That this conference rejoice to hear of the probability of a visit from Dr. Stephenson, of the Children'll Home, London, and offer him a cordial welcome, and encage to co operate with him in the very laudable work he represents.”

The fifth annual meeting of the Patient*., and Prisoners' Aid Society was held to-day. The society renders aiiistmoc- to persons discharged from gaol, hospital, and lunatic asylums. The fallowing are extracts from, the report:—The income for the year, including the balance from the previous year, amounted to £575 15s, and the expenditure to £412 9j 91. The committee desire to direct attention to the fact that the enm of £8 15s has been returned during the year by persons assisted, cu amount which is in excess of amounts refunded in any previous year. Assistance has been given in over 300 instances, but a good many were assisted more than once. The individuals helped numbered about 250. Of these (in addition to sums of money, for the most part small) twenty-nine were supplied with articles of clothing, twelve with boots, eighteen with blankets (men going up country), three with goods to hawk, five with working tools or implements, forty six were assisted by paying their railway or ship fares, and ten by paying their board for short periods. In many other ways aid was rendered, sometimes at an outlay of money and sometimes without anything being required from the funds of the society. The three boys, aged eleven, thirteen, and fourteen, who were convicted of bnrglary, and whom the B M. remanded for a week to consider how thsy should be dealt with, were to-day sent to the industrial school till they reached the age of fifteen respectively. Anderson, aius Collins, alias Cullen, was charged with passing a valueless cheque for £5 an the Union Bank to an hotelkeeper. The cheque was dated Sunday. Counsel for the accused said he had an account at the Union Bank, Christchurch, and if a remand was granted for a week funds would bo provided. The remand was granted, A second charge of obtaining £25 by false representation was also remanded. The legal manager of the Gladstone Company, Macetown, has received the following telegram from the mine manager:— ** Rich stone struck in Gladstone mine v.hu day, superior to any yet found in Maoetowu. Forwarding box of specimens.” Tinned penny pieces are being passed in Dunedin as florins. S

Further intelligence which has reached here regarding the finding of a woman and two children in a well at Woodland* goes to ihow that Mrs Miloe in a weak moment committed suicide, and threir her two children into the well to drown with her. Of late she had been heard to »ay ehe expected soon to die, and gave evidence of a weak state of mind in veticus ways. The well was usually kept covered with a ltd, which it almost was impossible could have been lifted by children. There was 20ft of water in the well, which w jb 30ft deep. INVERCARGILL, August 8,

The Bluff Harbor Board to-day, acting on a report by their engineer, that the original ana of the wharf, winch has been in existence for some sixteen years, was rapidly subsiding through the ravages of marine insects, decited to call for tenders for cylinder and concrete piles and girder superstructure for a new wharf, or alternatively a timber wharf with sheathed piles. Consideration of thequest ion of procuring a tug was again before the Board. The Board being again equally divided, the chairman gave his casting vote for his own amendment, that the question hoconsidered that day six rroctha.