NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2638, 21 September 1882, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND.

(PER press amooiatiok.J AUCKLAND, September 20. A house at Ponsonby, occupied by Jabez and Thomas Hunt, was burnt down to-night through the capsizing of a kerosene lamp. It was insured in the South British for £l5O. An adjoining house was also injured, and was insured in tho same office for £IOO. Mr Fantham, the proprietor of the Cambridge Racecourse ground, intends to prosecute parties, numbering forty, who trespassed on his property when following the Paknranga hounds. Tho oonstabu'ary left Cambridge for the roads this morning. A number of men is left behind to complete the Kaiopui bridge, NEW PLYMOUTH, September 20. The inquest on Bobart Powell, who hanged himself, was held to-day. The evidence showed that up to about a quarter of an honb before he was found hanging dead, ha was engaged in ordinary business in store, and neither said nor did anything to lead to the supposition that anything was wrong. The jury returned a verdict of felo de se, and the coroner ordered the body to be interred between the hours of nine and twelve tonight. WELLINGTON, September 20, At the inquest on Gertrude Windsor the verdict returned was “That death resulted from the deceased’s being run over,” The lad William Barnacle, who was the driver of the horse and cart which caused the accident, was brought up at the Magistrate’s Court on a charge of manslaughter and remanded until the 26th. Bail was allowed. Tho steamer Wakatn is still ashore at Patea. Her cargo is being landed, and it is expected there will not be any trouble in floating her off when lightened. DUNEDIN, September 20. The question of prohibiting holders of trout-fishing licensee from fibbing on Sundays was discussed at a meeting of the of the Acclimatisation Society, but no decision was coma to, consideration being adjourned. Tho City Council lr,sb night appointed Mr D. A. Graham, at present in England, as gas engineer. There were eighteen applicants. A defendant was Sued 5s to-day for jumping on a railway carriage whilst in motion. He declared he could bring up a Judge of the Supreme Court for tho same offence. Another license to prospect for minerals on the West Coast, this time over 1500 acres at Martin’s Bay, was granted at the Land Board yesterday. The Boaad also granted a lease over 320 acres to the Caswell Sound Marble Quarrying Company. Tho company intend sending home for skilled workmen, and intend erecting machinery at a cost of £2300 to carry on operations.