NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2624, 4 September 1882, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND.

r?BX FUll AJUOOLLTIOS.J AUCKLAND, September 2. The Te Aroha settlers by the (hip Ashmore, from London, hare left far the Thames, as well aa molt of the Ashmore’s passenger*. A blacksmith named William John Lyttle we- charged with bigamy at the Police Court this morning, and remanded for a week. Lyttle wa* married to hia tint wife in Belfast in 1876, and with her emigrated to New Ze»land, end resided for a considerable time at Taranaki. He left in quest of employment, and was supposed to hare been lost in tbs wreck of the ill-fated Tararua. TT?« wife, believing that inch was the ease, put on widow's weeds, and in due time accepted the hand of a man named Baker, a settler, and was married to him, little dreaming Lyttle was alive. Lyttle becoming aware of the fact that his Belfast wife had found another husband, went to Wanganui and made lore to a young woman, known as Polly Willows, whose friends live at Newton. Polly induced her husband bo take her and her baby to Anekland, where he would fiod work. The facts, however, became known in Wanganui, and a faoetioui paragraph appearing in a local journal led to the arrast of Lyttle here on a charge of bigamy. Bail was allowed in £SO, and two sureties of £SO each.

The following are picked aa the football team against the Sydney team in the coming match : —J. Arnoil, J. Carter, P, Clayton, O. Oroxton, Biudon, Big.»e, Thos. Henderson, Maekay, O’Connell, W. King, T, Byan, Jas. Sim*, Thos. Sibbin, G. Spencer, Jas. Wood, J. Webster, B, Whiteside, Thos, Jonghin.

NAPIECE, September S.

A good deal of interest is felt in the first *a:a of land by the Native Land Settlement Company at Gisborne cn October 10th. The Union Company have arranged to offer special advantages to passengers proceeding to tho sale.

WANGANUI, September 8.

The return football match, Wanganui ▼ Manawatu, was played cn the recreation reserve yesterday afternoon. Great interest w&a taken in tho match. Wanganui won by four tries to nil.

The gasometer hag righted, but the town wa a very poorly lit up last night. TIHAEU, Septembers.

Tha body of Edward H. Tate, who has been missing since Wednesday last, and fox whom continuous search has been kept up, was found yesterday afternoon about fire mile* south o! Timaru by two little girls, and word et once was sent to the police. The body was dope to the top of the cliff overlooking the sea and amongst tnjsock*. It was lying on the back with th- leg* extended and the arms dose to the side grasping the tussocks. The face was calm, and the whole aspect, with the exception of the bands, one of perfect repose. There were no signs of riolenae on tbe body, in fact there is nothing so far to show tbe canse of death. He must have been dead two days at least. The body was brought into town, and an inquest wiU be held to-morrow. Tate was formerly resident in Wellington, but had lived here for -he last thirteen years. He was greatly respected by all classes of the community. Ho was about sixty years of age, and leaves • large family. At the inquest at the Washdyke on tho child Irvine, a verdict was returned that ha died from being overlaid by his mother. DUNEDIN, September 3, The Mutual Fire and Marine Insurance Association has opened a branch in Dunedin under tho management of Mr Georg* Blyth. The railway engine drivers having deputationiaed the Trades and Labour Council on the subject of their receiving no allowanos for overtime, tbe Council will lay the css* before the city members of the Assembly. It was through an oversight that the solicitor did not attend the Supreme Court to oppose the istue of a mandamus in tho Linden licensing case. It will come again before the Oonrt.

INVEECABGHLL, September *.

At a meeting of the Southland Frosen Meat and Produce Company held to-day, it was resolved after a cisonsaion to go on with the project as an independent company. A section of shareholders have been agitating to have the company amalgamated with the local Co-operative Association on a basis of the shareholders of the Freexing Company taking up shares in the latter, but the meet-, ing rejected this. A man named Thomas Carson, who vu crosscutting in tho bush during the thunderstorm yesterday, had his saw struck by lightning. He was stunned and blinded for & time, but is now none the worse. September 3. At the inquest on James Morton, who poijoned himself ou Saturday, a verdict was returned that he died from a dose of anenie administered by himself, being at the time of unsound mind. He was a clever landscape gardener and an enthusiast in natural history and taxidermy, besides being more than unusually learn c-i in botany, especially that of New Zealand. In these lines he was known and appreciated by the leading savants and amateurs in the colony and elsewhere.