NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2642, 26 September 1882, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND.

{FffiS PBHBS AaSOOX^TIOK.J AUCKLAND, September 25. William Lyttle was committed for bigamy in marrying Miss Williams, of Wakonui, hie wife being then alive. Bail was allowed. Catherine Kelly, while sleeping off a drunken fit at Knmeo bridge, was struck by the cow-catcher of the down Kaipara train, and was thrown to the bottom of the gully. She escaped with a lacerated face and arm*. A fire broke oat in the residence of Mr S'. A. Whitaker, Hamilton, but was no sooner suppressed in one place than it broke out in several other places. It is believed to be the work of an incendiary. Ths police are investigating the matter. Silvered pennies are being put in circulation as florins. The Harbor Board received a cablegram stating that the Harbor Board debentures supposed to have been with the burnt portion of the Alaska’s mail were found all safe. The Harbor Board have received a letter from the directorate of the Sydney Sugar Company announcing that Mr J, 0. Firth has been invested with power of attorney authorising him to *ot on behalf of the company in all matters connected with the establishing of a sugar refinery in Auckland, and in leasing the harbor frontage sections required. TIMABU, September 25. Special thanksgiving service for the British victories in Egypt was held in the Jewish Synagogue last evening. The weather is very unsettled, and heavy rain is falling to-night. A four-roomed house, belonging to John Hore, was burnt down at Waimata yesterday. The inmates lost every thing, and had a very narrow escape. The building was not insured. DUNEDIN, September 25. K-„ ''assay, the late Town Clerk, has accepted the offer of the City Council (first made to him seven months ago) of the sum of £275 in full of all demands. This is a matter which has been several times before the Court. A young man named James Garrick met with a severe accident at Beid and Gray's foundry to-day. He was putting a bolt on a pulley when his wrist was caught and he was dragged round the shaft. When extricated it was found his right arm and leg were broken. At the hospital bis right leg was amputated.