NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2644, 27 September 1882, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND.

[PRESS association telegram.) AUCKLAND, September 26. The entries for the Spring Handicap and Hurdles race, Auckland Spring Meeting, close on Friday, at 8 p.m. At a meeting of the creditors of W. J. O’Brien, baker, Parnell, the trustee reported, with the exception of not paying proper attention to books and running away to avoid hie creditors, the trustee was not aware of anything to interfere with the debtor getting his discharge. His liabilities were about £IOOO, and his assets £IOO. On the motion of the chairman, Mr E. Gillingham, seconded by Mr W. Barton, solicitor for the debtor and three of the creditors as well, a resolution was carried recommending the Court to grant the debtor his discharge. Mr Justice Gillies has presented 130 vole, relating to the political history of New Zealand to the Auckland Institute. Elizabeth Allen, formerly wife of an officer in the British army, was charged with the larceny of a quantity of dress clothes. She was discharged, but a conviction was recorded. Joseph and Son’s shop, on the Ponsonby road, was set on fire by the capsizing of a kerosene lamp. The damage done amounted to £6O, It was insured in the South British. Amongst the recent admissions to the hospital is a young man named Christian, a Norfolk Islander, and a great grandson of Christian, one of the leaders of the mutiny of the Bounty. Mr B. Tonks has been appointed director of the Mutual Insurance Company, The share list closes on September 80th. WANGANUI, September 26. Referring to the recommendation of the Conference of the Education Board and School Committee that Mr Steadman, the second master of the Board’s High School, be asked to resign on account of insubordination, receiving one month’s salary on doing so, the Board to-day deoiled to relieve him of duty forthwith, paying him three months’ salary in lieu of notice. The Board has determined that the salaries of teaohers at tho High School be os follows:—Head master, £4OO i second master, £250; third master, £200; assistant, £l6O. Tho salaries of the head and second master* are to bo advanced. The capitation grant to the school committees is to be increased by la 6d per head. The Board endowment for the High School property hae been sold, realising £SOOO. A deputation was appointed to interview the Minister for Lands for a further endowment up to £IO,OOO, fixed by statute for the Wanganui High School. WELLINGTON, September 26, The poultry and dog show to be held next week promises to be a success. At the Police Court to-day, William Barnacle was formally charged with manslaughter and discharged. DUNEDIN, September 28. The following notice of motion has been given for next meeting of the City Council: —“That the Mayor and Town Council on behalf of the people of Dunedin desire to convey their hearty congratulations to the Imperial Govern neut on the success which has been achieved by her Majesty’s forces in Egypt, and that this resolution be sent to the Colonial Government with a request that they will be good enough to transmit it to the Imperial Government.” Two young men named Pidler and Mitchell, a draper and a clerk, were charged at the Police Court to-day with obstructing the police. The evidence showed that the constable was arresting another clerk on Sunday morning for drunkenness, when a crowd of persons assembled and seemed determined to take the prisoner out of custody on tho ground of wrongful arrest, but some gentlemen passing kept them in check. The defence was that Mitchell, who lodged with the prisoner, wished to bail him out, and Fidlor, who knew him to be a respectable man, offered to take charge of him, but the constable refused. The Magistrate dismissed the case, on the ground that there was no evidence that the defendants were active in the obstruction. Considerable interest was taken in the case. The Taieri Agricultural Society held an entire parade to-day. There were nineteen entries.