NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2644, 28 September 1882, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND.

[FEB PBBB3 ASSOCIATION.] AUCKLAND, September 27. Eobert Marsh, burglar, was committed for trial on some half-dozen charges of burglary. The other cases were not gone on with. The cottage of F. Sheasby, Three Kings, was burnt down. It was insured in the North British for £l6O. The furniture was also insured. Eighteen prisoners await trial at the criminal sessions. The principal oases ere bigamy, unlawfully wounding, perjury, and burglary. A meeting) of ladies to-day, at which 200 were present, has been held to protest against the enforcement of the Contagious Diseases Prevention Act. Thirty-three petitions ore in circulation, and are being extensively signed. A meeting of the clergy is convened for to-morrow. At a meeting of the directors of the Mutual Insurance Company it was decided to limit the present issue of shares to 100,000. Commence business next week. Mr Wm. Street, formerly of Dunedin, having disposed of the yacht Winona, is having a new yacht, twelve tons, built by Mr Logan, for competing at the ensuing Auckland regatta. Through the bolting of a trap a Chinaman received a ghastly wound from ear to throat, end was taken to the Hospital. The Hon. Mr Dick inspected the gaol, Industrial Home and Asylum. He expressed much satisfaction with the interior management and outdoor arrangements of the latter institution. J. A. McKelvie presented a further gift of 100 volumes on the “ Early History of New Zealand ” to the Auckland Institute. He collected them in London. HAWBBA, September 27. Mr Bryce passed through on his way to Opunake to-day. He returns here on Saturday, en route for Napier, where he is to meet Mr Rolleston. He then returns to this coast, en route for Auckland. He will reach Auckland in about three weeks. The Pihama sections unsold at the Government land sales hav. all moved off at the upset price, £lO pe' acre section The weather hero lately has been very rough. Hailstorm* and electrical disturbances have been unusually severe. WELLINGTON, September 27. Christina Jansen has been arrested on a charge of manslaughter. The case has arisen out of an inquest held on Saturday on an infant which died under suspicious circumstances last week. An official inquiry will probably be made as to the origin of the fire last night. The annual report of the Star Boating Club shows that the club is in a flourishing condition. The income tor the season was £513 j the total exp:nditure was £306, thus leaving a credit balance of £207, The club numbers 138 active, and eleven honorary members. The correct insurance for last night’s fire at Oroskery Auction Mart (owner, Mr J. Dnffy) are £SOO in the Colonial, of which £3OO is reinsured ; stock, £SOO in the Standard. Holliday’s stock, which was partly damaged, is insured for £2050, distributed as follows £SOO in the Norwich Union, £250 in the Standard, £SOO in the Imperial, £BOO in the Colonial, £650 being reinsured. Wiggins’ saddlery store, which is slightly damaged, is insured for £6OO in the Imperial and £2OO in the National. The stock is uninsured. Mr Wiggins estimates his loss at £l6O.

TIMARU, September 27. A settler named William Leishman fell between the railway carriages and platform at Winchester station this evening, and got terribly crushed from the thighs downwards. The injuries are believed to bo very serious. DDNBDIN, September 27. Oliver Harris, an employe of Messrs. Barningham and 00., of the Victoria Foundry, was received into the hospital this afternoon suffering from a severe accident. The injured man is a grinder, and the belt breaking caused it to fly out and strike him, by which he received a compound fracture of the right elbow and wrist, and a similar fracture of the right jaw. The lad Garrick, who had to undergo amputation of leg through being caught in machinery in Reid and Gray’s, is progressing favorably. The Sydney footballers left by the To Anau for Wellington to-day, There are at present no fewer than eight West Coast boys, lour of them holding

Scholarships, attending the Dunedin Hi? h School. A boy from Grey month, nanr d William Wilson, was to-day presented with the Watkins’ gold medal, won by him at the Grey mouth public school. The donor of the medal is the Bev. Watkins, of Trinity Ohnroh, Oreymouth. AUCKLAND, September 27. The “ Tauranga Guardian ” changed hands to-day for £2OOO, the original proprietor being the purchaser. Bland Holt’s Company are doing very well here, and have not yet played to less than £IOO nightly.