NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2608, 16 August 1882, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND.

[PBB PRESS ASSOCIATION.] AUCKLAND, August 16. , By. the Australia, for San Francisco, today, Mr Pickering was a passenger to purchase the latest machinery in America and England for the Union Soap, Candle, and Oil Company, The steamer took gold valued at £67.650, consigned to San Francisco, from Sydney. At eighty-two feet below the Waikato river bed, a conglomerate of clay, sand, and gravel was at last met with, which will afford a solid bed for the cylinders of the railway bridge to rest on. At a meeting of the Parnell Borough Council, J. Lownds, oysterman, claimed fees under the Public Health Act, for repotting two oases of measles which occurred in his own family. The Council rejected the claim, as the fees are only for medical men, and wanted to see bis diploma.

WELLINGTON, August 15. James William Ellis, a convict who was sentenced at last criminal sessions to twelve years’ penal servitude and two floggings of thirty lashes each, for felonious assault on a child in Wairarapa, received his first whipping at the gaol this morning, in the presence of Captain Hume, Inspector of Prisons, The punishment is said to have been very severe.

TIMABU, August 15. Owing to the suspicious circumstances surrounding the recent fire at Thomas Lyle’s, watchmaker, the police have determined to hold an inquiry into it on Thursday. DUNEDIN, August 16. Charles Bqseoe, who absconded from Burnham Industrial School in December last, has been recommitted.

The resident of Gore who took out a prohibition order against himself succumbed to the old enemy within a few days. Sir Julius Yogel will leave Melbourne for t’ e colony either on the 22nd or 29th inst. The analysis of the Garrick Binge antimony ore from Melbourne is as follows :—“ Antimony, 64 per cent.; geld, none; silver, trace.” This is highly satisfactory, as it represents nearly the maximum of purity. At the Port Chalmers Borough Council a man named Miller, who was a defeated candidate at the last eleetion, became so obstructive that he hod to be removed by the police. INVBEOABOILL, August 15, The first accident involving personal injury on our tramway system occurred to-day, when Christina Hanson, a servant at the Gladstone Hotel, made an attempt to jnmp on a moving oar. She fell, aad the oar passed over her leg, causing such serious injuries that it is feared amputation will have to be resorted to.