NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2650, 5 October 1882, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND.

[pbb PBBsa iasooxa.TioH.3 AUCKLAND, October 4. At the oriminal sessions Dennis O'Connor was oharged with the larceny of £l2, and was acquitted. Madame Valentine, for the larceny of £2O from Henry Collins in her house, wao acquitted. At a meeting of the Auckland Presbytery a letter was read from the Victorian Insurance Company, in relation te claims made upon the company by the Rev. Moses Broach on the ohuroh of S;. Andrewj, New Plymouth, stating their belief that tho Bev. Mr Breaoh had no legal claim, as the ohuroh was burnt d<>wn maliciously during the disquietude which then existed in connection with the churoh and congregation, nor, in thoir opinion, have the trustees any legal or moral claim, as they had failed in their duty. The matter would be laid before the directors, ex gratia, for their consideration. A motion was oarried—" That the Rev. Mobcs Breaoh, Taranaki, bo informed that it is the intention of the Presbytery to investigate certain charges *o be brought against him that day month." Ou tbe laflfc trip of the Taiaroa, between Suva avid Levuka, a man named J. Faterson fell overboard and was drowned. He oame on board at Suva. The Harbor Board passed a resolution in favor of the establishment of a New Zealand Humane Society, under the management of tho Harbor Boards of the colony. Bronohes are to bo established at tho principal ports. The head office is in Auckland. The Rev. T. O. Anderson, of Chiistchurch, delivered an interesting address on his mission to the Chatham Islands, at St. Matthew's Ohuroh. Among those present was Cuptain Thomas, R.M. of tho Chatham Islands, Kooti effected his escape from there. [WELLINGTON, October 4. At the Supreme Court, Robert Littleoott, convicted of stealing a horse, cheques, &s., was scntenoed to six years. James Jonathan Adams and Genevieve Elizabeth Adams, his daughter, were indicted on a charge of falsely conspiring with others on 18th February, 1880, to wrongfully charge G. orge Longhurst with having on t'Sa 15th February carnally abused Genevieve Elizabeth Adams. The oaso occupied ell day, and is not expected to oonclude before to-morrow night. WHSTPORT. October 4.

An aoeident occurred on the Westport Coal Company's inoline yesterday through the wire rope parting at the splice. This released the loaded trucks, which flaw down the inoline line, tearing up a few sleapers, twistiog rails, injuring office at the foot of line, and doing other damage. One of the men employed at tho bottom received some nasty cuts about the head and face from the flying debris. The damage was quickly repaired, and the traffic resumed. At German terrace, a miner named Jeremiah Tenant was found dead close to his washing site. A post mortem, showed that disease of the heart was the cause of death. Tho deceased was working alone. DUNK DIN, Ootober 4.

A very strange occurrence is reported to have taken place at Mosgiel about 1 a.m. on Tuesday. Mrs Burnett, the wife of the constable, feeling restless, awoke her husband, and asked him to take a look through the house as she felt rather uneasy. Mr Burnett rose and looked into the different rooms, and finally into the room whero lay the oorpse of the lata Constable O'Neill. As he opened the door he saw a blaze, and quickly peroeived the room to be on fire. He procured some . buckets of water and soon quenched the fire. |Ho«r the fire originated is a mystery. A • vndle had been left burning in the room, but

it was on the table, while the fln wm on the floor in a corner of the room. A portmanteau wai burned, and the flame from it had charred the table underneath, but the top of the table showed no eigne of Are. There was a ■beet over the coffin, bat the flame had not reached it. The New Zealand Clothing Factory Go. intend erecting a four-itorey warehouse and workshops on the ground floor of the warehouse. There will be a dining-room for workpeople, with a large boiler, &c. The building, which will take eight months to complete, promises to be a model factory. Two Belgians, named Louie and Solomon Cohen, have been arrested on a oharge of false pretenoos. They represented to Father O'Mftlley, the principal of the Catholic College, that they had been sent to him by Bishop Moran, and sold him a considerable quantity of olothing at an extravagant prioe. They were, arrested as they were leaving by the Botomahana for the North. The Licensed Victuallers' committee have decided to recommend to the association the keeping' of a register of all hired servants, with the reason of their discharge, &c.; alio of all defaulting boarders, to be open for inspection of the members j also to ask the Government to appoint proper excise officers with power to obtain samples of liquor from hotel-keepers.