NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2614, 23 August 1882, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND.

[PBKB3 ASSOCIATION IKMSIiAM.I AUCKLAND, August 22. Father Sullivan, superior of the Benedictine), was a passenger by the Rotomahaua for Sidney, to assist iu laying the foundation stone of the cathedral. The German, Frenoh, and deputy Amerioan consuls paid an official visit to the Tskubun, the Japanese warship, and reoeived the consuls' salute. Plans of contract No. 3, Calliope dock, have been approved by the Harbor Board, and will be forwarded to Wellington. Mr Tbos. Russell, 0.M.G.. is now in America, en route lor Auckland, and will be here positively by the next inooming mail steamer. The charge of robbery against Thomas Binning, late mate of wreoked sohooner Elizabeth Curie, waß adjourned for a weak. Information has been reoeived from Wellington by the Harbor Buard that the Government will lay a telegraph cable from Tiri Tiri lighthouse to the mainland, anil conneot it with the telegraph station. The eastern circuit of Auckland fire alarm system was tested by the Mayor and Coun- ! oillors, and fcuad in working order. The I western oirouit will bo completed this week. It was feared at ono time that the apparatus would be unworkable, but the officer in charge of tho Auokland Telegraph Department suooeeded ia making it effioient. DDNEDIN, August 22. There was a somewhat amusin* case at the District Court ts-day. Mies Wilson Bued Michael M'Key for £136 17a 6i wages and money lent. The plaintiff deolared she had had been enpaged by defendant, who is a hawker, at £2 a week as oook. The lent money amounted to £4 17s 61. Tho defence was that the plaintiil had won money in a sweep, and boing a Roman Oatholio determined to do pious work in way of alms. In these oiroumatances the defendant gave hee a home. The engagement was deuied. Tho defendant's wife stated that she becamo acquainted with plaintiff through both belonging to the Society of the Children of Mary. Judge Ward said the Children of Mary seemed to do a little hard swearing. Tho jury found a verdict) for the defendant. Further evidence rrau heard in the ojjo against McGill, drapor, Arcade, to-day for alleged arson, and ic was then further adjourned. The first annual report of tho Sailors Rest shows a very satisfactory state of affairs. Tho Rest has been open nightly since May, 1881, with an average attendance of between thirty and forty. Some evenings there have been eighty. A meeting of shareholders in Messrs Guthrie and Larnach's New Zealand Woodwaro Factories Company was hold to-day, Mr W. J. M. Larnaoh presiding. Tho business was to oonfirm a resolution previously passed to wind up tho company's affairs. A motion was proposed to adjourn for tb" purpose of enabling the North Island shareholders to send down proxies, but as it appeared a majority of thorn bad already forwarded proxies, the proposition wai withdrawn. The resolution was then confirmed, and Messrs Larntch, W. 3rown, aud D. jdtronaoh were appointtd liquidators.