NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2630, 11 September 1882, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND.

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AUCKLAND, September 9. A handsome new hall has been created for the Oddfellows in Ponsonby. Chas. H. Monkmaa, photographer, was oharged on summons at the Polioe Court, with a breaoh of the Fine Arts Copyrights Aots by copying the portraits of Tawhiao without permission of the owner. Jno. Blackman, of Fulman's photographic Btudio, gave evidence. It was stated it was customary to get Maori celebrities without pecuniary consideration. Judgment was reserved. NEW PLYMOOTH, September 10.

Mr T. S. Weston, member for Inangahus., arrived here last evening, he having had to leave his parliamentary duties snldenly owing to domestic affliction, his mother having died twelve hours before he oould reaoh the place. WELLINGTON, September 9. The barque Kentish Lisa was floated off this afternoon tide without any difficulty. She has not sustained any damage.

A largo and brilliant comet between N.E. and E. was visible here at 4.15 this morning. The comet has a large head pointed towards the earth, and is lost sight of about five o'clock.

HOKITIKA, September 10. A woman named Ellen Galloway, wife of the master of the Harbor Board dredge, was missed from her home on the South Spit on Friday at about 11 p.m. She appears to have got out of bed and walked into the creek, for her footprints were traced to the water. The body was recovered on Saturday. An inquest will be hold to-morrow.

TIMARU, September 10. A comet formed a very brilliant object in the north-eastern sky early this morning. DUNEDIN, September 10.

Several of the suburban Licensing Committees have written to the Colonial Socratary urging that the whole borough should be constituted one distriot, instead of being divided into three or four, thus saving tima, expense, and inoonvenienoe.