NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2609, 17 August 1882, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND.

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AUCKLAND. August 16. Superintendent Thompson left for gthe Thames to conduct the prosecution against Sergeant O’Grady. Mr Hesketh, solicitor, is retained for the defence.

A petition against the Fisheries Protection Bill is being largely signed by local fisherman. It protests against the Maoris being exempted from the operation of the Bill, and against the power of the Governor to close the fisheries for three years or more at pleasure. Samuel Joy was committed for trial for bigamy. The marriage arose through Joy advertising for a wife, and a widow nam.d Mary Ann Pringle replying. Bishop Oowie presented the diplomas of the Ne w Zealand University in the Choral Hall to the Rev. John King Davis, M.A., Wm. Foidly, M.A., B, J. Macfarland, 8.A., St. John’s College. There was a large attendance

WELLINGTON, August 16,

It ia understood that an notion for defamation of character, in which damages are laid at £20,000, has been brought by Mr Cook, late manager of Colonial Bank in this oity, against Mr W. J. M. Larnaoh. The case is to be heard in Sidney, and evidence is being taken on commission in this city by Messrs Soivwright and Chapman, as commissioners for the plaintiff and defendant respectively. Mr Cook, after leaving here, became manager of a Bank in Australia, bat was dismissed in consequence, it ia stated, of a letter addressed by Mr Larnaoh to hi* brother in Sydney, and which was shown to the directors. It is this letter which forms the ground of the present action.

Damages to the extent of £SOOO has been caused by floods during the late storm in Karori and Makara districts. A strong southerly wind ia still blowing, accompanied with heavy rain. TIM ABU, August 16. A man named William Chambers fell off a dray at Waimate this afternoon, and the wheel passed over his head. He was conveyed to the Hospital, but died soon after reaching it. He was a single man, and had lived in the district eleven or twelve years. A heavy south-westerly gale has been blowing all day, and a good deal of snow has alien in the bach country. A public meeting will be held to-morrow night in connection with the wreck relief fund, which now amounts to nearly £2OOO. Permanent trustees will be appointed. The fund in aid of the distressed Jews of Russia amounts to nearly £3OO.

DDNBDIN, August 10.

The son of Mr Harvey, solicitor, of Invercargill, had hia leg broken in a football match at Blueskin on Saturday. The Otago Acclimatisation Society have telegraphed to the Colonial Secretary in regard to the Fisheries Bill, urging that the redaction and generalisation of the license fee will injuriously affect the operation of suoh societies, and that if the original Bill as brought down by Mr Whitaker be not carried through, it should be dropped for the session.

The ceremony of confening degrees upon successful graduates of the Otago University was performed to-night by Mr H. J. Tanorsd, Chancellor of the New Zealand University. He delivered a short formal address, and addresses were also delivered by the Bev. Dr. Bosoby and by Professor Sale, There was a crowded attendance.

Phdip Davis, a plumber, aged about thirty, and a single man, living with his parents, took spirits of salts used in trade last night, and to-day he died. He had been drinking heavily, and coming home drunk was reproached by his father, whereupon he went and took the poison, and stated that be had done so. A doctor attended, but although the drug was removed, the effects of it and of habitual drinking killed him. The people of Anderson’s Bay, about three miles from Dunedin, are endeavoring to secure a tramway service. INVEBOABQILL. August 16.

A meeting of tho Board of Nominators for the appointment of a successor to the K*v. W. P. Tanner took place this evening, there being present the Van. Archdeacon Edwards and Bev. A. Beaumont, Messrs Quick, Benner, , Martin and Scandrett. The meeting lasted several hours, and at its conclusion it was unanimonsly resolved that the Bey. Harry i' Stocker, 8.A., of Akaroa, be nominated to J the Bishop for institution to the cure of St. John’s parish, Invercargill,