NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2623, 2 September 1882, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND.

[PBB FBBBB ABIOOIATION.J THAMES, September 1. At the bottom level of the Queen of Beauty mine this morning there were bagged 2cwt of specimens and lowt of picked stone from a lift reef. The return for last month was 763ozsl6dwt gold.

AUCKLAND, September 1. Mr Wm. Walters, the well-known horse breeder and sportsman, was seized with apoplexy, and is dangerously ill. Denis O'Connor was oommitted for trial on a oharge of robbing John Johnston, a released prisoner, of £l2 of his extension money. Charles Davis has been arrested on a oharge of defrauding Thomas Davis, at Kamo, of £IOO. The prisoner was seoured in Auckland at the Governor Browne Hotel, and £l7 was found in a letter.

Dr. Biohardson, who attended the girl Sarah Johnstone throughout her fatal illness, states in a published letter that he suspeoted poisoning from arsenic or corrosive sublimate from the first, and treated her accordingly. WELLINGTON, September 1. During the passage of the barque Norman MoLcod from London to Wellington, a seaman named Bslph Newton while aloft missed his hold and fell on the quarter deok, being badly crushed On the following day he succumbed to the injuries. He was a young man aged twenty-one. At the inquest on Thomas Hewson, drowned at Oteronga Bay, a verdiot of "Death by accidental drowning" was returned.

T. Prioe's sawmill, near Dalefield railway station, was burnt early this morning. Nothing was saved. The engine and machinery were much' damaged. The mill had only just started working. The origin of the fire is at present unknown. Vital statistics for August are—Births 11, deaths 37, marriages 22. At a meeting of the Council of the New Zealand R'fla Association, held this evening, it was decided to hold the next prize competition at Dunedin, commencing on Friday, the 3rd Novemb r next. The programme was deoided upon. TIMARU, September 1. No traoe yet has been found of Mr E. H. Tate, commission agent, who has been missing since Wednesday. The polioe and a large number of private persons have been out searching all day and dragging the creeks south of the town, but without result. A young ohild named Irvine was found dead in bed at the Washdyke this morning. An inquest will be held. DUNEDIN, September 1. At the Supreme Court today, Mr Justice Williams ordered the treasurer of the Boslyn borough to issue a license to Butler, This is the applicant who was granted it by the Hinden committee ofjthree, which was eleoted by the ratepayers, but was refused it by the committee of five appointed by the Governor, The case waß not contested on behalf of the latter oommittee, at whioh his Honor expressed regret. At the R.M. Court to-day Moss Moss, money lender, sued Chas. Forsyth, for £2B 15i, money due on a promissory note, drawn by Grant and signed by Forsyth, upon whioh after an endorsement by Smith, oaptain of the Naval Brigade, Moss advanoed a sum of money. The defence was that the signature of both Forsyth and Smith were forged by Grant, who suddenly disappeared about three years ago. The plaintiff had then applied to Forsyth and Smith for the money, but both of them asserted their signatures were forgeries. The Magistrate held there was no doubt of their being forgeries, and gave judgment for the defendant.

The Mornington Borough Counoil are petitioning Parliament to make such modifl cations in the Rating Bill before finally passing it as will prevent loss and inconvenience to certain borough corporations from taking plaoe. INVEROARGILL, Sep'ember 1. To day about a dozen members of the Southland Institute and other friends of Mr P. Goyen, late inspector of Southland sohools, met in the Albion Hotel to present to him a souvenir of his connection with the institute as secretary sinoe its commencement. The gift, which was presented by Mr J. Turnbull Thomson as president of the institute, was in mosey, but will take the shape of a mioroscope, to bear the inscription that [it was presented by members of the institute and others of Mr Goyon's Southland friends. A braoelet for Mrs Goyen formed part of the presentation, to which Mr Goyen made an appropriate reply. The Southland Eduoation Board has resolved to support the petition re the elevation of the Riverton school into a district high school. The petition is about to be sent to Wellington.