NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2716, 22 December 1882, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND.

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AUCKLAND, December 21. Moonstone has been scratched for all engagements at the forthcoming meeting. The celebrated Northern chief Tairu died at Kaipara. Ho was a great warrior of the olden times and friend of the Europeans. The tangi will be the largest attended in the North for years. Owing to fresh evidence obtained respecting the charge of wilful murder of Hamilton against Priestly and Mrs Hamilton, the case is not expected to be gone into at the Police Court till after the holidays. At the wool sale at Buckland’s greasy wool advanced Jd per lb. Mr Rayner, of Blenheim, who was jn'esent, was a large buyer. In the petition for divorce in the case of Wilcock v Pordtr, the following are the particulars ;—The petitioner is a tea dealer at Newton, and the co-respondent is described as a clerk. There was only one issue for trial, adultery or no adultery. The petitioner and respondent wore married on the 20th Juno, 1870, the maiden name of the respondent being Mary Price Roberts. The marriage was solemnized in Lancashire. The parties cohabited there and in New Zealand. At the time of the marriage the respondent was only seventeen years of age, the petitioner being twenty-one. There were four children, but they are all dead. It appeared that the respondent had left her husband’s house in Aaickland, and had not returned to it since March last. The answer to the action was a denial of the adultery. The petitioner also prayed that costs of the suit might be allowed him. The co-respondent denied that he had been guilty of adultery, and that the petitioner was entitled to a decree, and therefore not entitled to costa. WELLINGTON, December 21.

The Hon. Mr Rolleston is expected to return froipMiis visit to the West Coast on Saturday nfeht. By Order in Council kerosene has been brought within the Dangerous Goods Act. The several Mayors of the colony are gazetted Justices of the Peace.

The Hon. Mr Rolleston and. Messrs MoKerrow, Martin and Chapman have been elected governors of the New Zealand Institute.

The weather during the past ten days has prevented the outrigger crew, entered for the Lyttelton regatta, from going out in their boat, for, although the weather has not been boisterous, the sea has been too lumpy to allow a racing skiff to ventureThe yacht Thetis is expected to leave hero for Lyttelton to-morrow. She will sail down.

GEETMOUTH. December 21. The Telegraph staff last evening presented Mr Furby, officer in charge here for some time past, with several handsomely bound volumes of general literature, as a mark of their regard, on his leaving here. He goes to Christchurch. NELSON, December 21. The case of Williams v the Queen commenced before a special jury this morning. Capt. Steele, now mate of thellanawata, formerly on the steamer Westport, detailed the whole of the circumstances in connection with the vessel at Westport. Richard Harman, diver, gave the result of his examination, and stated that he found that a snag which tad been built into the stag® had pierced the vessel, and caused her to sink. The case is still proceeding. OAMARU, December 21. The Mayor of Oama.ru was installed yesterday, but as there were only five councillors present the question has been raised of the legality of bis holding office. Tho matter was brought before the Council tonight, and the Mayor decided to occupy the chair till any of the burgesses took action. . DUNEDIN, December 21. Sir Julius Vogel will leave for Wellington on Monday, and will make a short stayin Christchurch on his way back. Ho expects to return to Dunedin within ten days. The Education Board find they havo overrun the constable slightly in financial matters, and the finance committee report that, had the Board been aware of their true financial position, some of the changes which have been authorised during the present year would probably have been delayed. After a good deal of discussion tho the Board decided to consider the report at a future meeting. The secretary, in the meantime is to prepare a statement of the average salaries paid to the teachers in New Zealand.

Mr Wilkinson, M.A., of Christchurch, lias been appointed tutor at the Normal School, and Mr Earle, of Melbourne, master of the new Model School.

It has been decided to proceed no further at present in the movement to establish an orphanage in Dunedin. In the District Court to-day. Judge Ward, gave judgment against one of the Goodisson brothers for .£145, in the claim made against them by Edmond, to whom, whilst in drink, they had sold a horse for that sum, which was only worth .£4O. The counsel for the plaintiff termed the transaction the simplest, commonest, and vulgarist horse coping swindle ever perpetrated.