NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2659, 14 October 1882, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND.

[PBS PBBUa ASSOCIATION.] AUCKLAND, October IS,

A pair who had eloped from Sydney, aged about twenty-three, have been traced here by the mother and sister of the wife. They endeavored to got the wife to return to her husband ; bub as she would not do so, the mother cabled to Sydney, and tbo husband put the law in motion, the police receiving information as to certain property the husband alleged to be in possession of the couple. As a warrant was about to issue, tho wife yielded and returns with her mother by the first steamer to Australia.

Another attempt is to be made to utilise tho iron sand deposits on the West Coast near Manukou Heads, A smelting establishment is to be erected at Onehnnga.

An old woman, Mary Gallagher, of Onehunga, died at tho door of the Auckland Hospital while being lifted out of an express, Dr, Scott gave a certificate of death that she died irom natural causes, accelerated by care and want of comfort.

The City Council intend, with the permismiaaion of the Government, to build a lock hospital

WELLINGTON, October 13. Mr Henry Kevell, of Kaiapoi, has been appointed assessor in the Canterbury property assessment district. The appointment of Mr B. T. Oonolly as Minister of Justice is formally gazetted tonight. At the Divorce Court a rule nisi was granted in the case of Brown v Brown and Baehford. This was a petition of the wife for a divorce on the grounds of adultery and desertion.

Another breach of promise case, in which £IOOO damages are olsimed, is on the tapis. The plaintiff is a well-known barmaid, and the defendant i* the landlord of an hotel in the city

TIITABU, October 13,

The privileges for the forthcoming Agricultural Show were sold to-day for £ll4, being a slight increase over last year. The entries for cattle, sheep, and pigs close to morrow. At the annual meeting of the Caledonian Society to-night the receipts for the past year were shown to be £3OO, and the expenditure £2BO, the present balance in hand besides property being £67. Dr. Boseby, of Dunedin, delivered a lecture to a large audience to-night on •• Comets.” He expressed the opinion that the present one was either the comet of 1843, or smother in the same orbit.

DUNEDIN, October 13, The Episcopalian Synod hava rules Mr Graham'* election a* a member for Fort Ohalmeral informal.. This i* the case in which the returning officer struck out all th<> vote* iof the opposing candidate till he and Mr .Graham were equal, and gave hie costing vote’for the latter. .4 The Caledonian Society, which get* up the anpnal sports, held its,.annual meeting of members to-night. The balance-sheet showed a profit for the year of £260. There has beqn an increase of membership-by eightyfour during the year, now numbering over 250.

The Papakaio murder case waa continued to-day, and tUe evidence for the prosecution was concluded. Very little interest is taken in ithe esse. To-morrow the counsels’ addresses and the Judge's summing np take place, and it is expected that the verdict will returned in the evening. Mr Parsons, chief officer of the Botomahana, fell down the hold of the steamer in the graving dock to-day, and sustained a fracture of the right arm, es well as other injuries.

1 . INVEECABQILL, October 13. The inquest on James Bowie, the boy killed on the railway at Gore, was commenced to-day, and adjourned for the ex. anjination of the driver and shunter of the train. The evidence showed that the boy wsa sheltering himself at the end of the van from a shower, when the shunter, who could not see him from the points, waved the train to come back, thus knocking the bay down on the rails.

Keller and Ounatd r opsnei their tour of the Oolony here to night. Their automata created great surprise, ecpooially the calculator.