NEW ZEALAND.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LVI, Issue 6503, 30 December 1881, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND.

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AUCKLAND, Dm, 20.

The haaaor Is old of the now (htblk cfenrab how already rasJtoed AMO; sod it is etneried IM AIAO mors will he obtained. Ur Gordon, one el the defeated eaudi* dates for FsmMjb north* lies been summoned for Begtein® to supply a list of the aotsUnocro employed by Mm daring the election. The Court reserved judgment. At the Police Court this morning, DeceM Wataaa, brewer, was fined costs £2S, for rngteding In date ter into atones, •event pnUioaae were fined- J®» mm costewr nrafeettof loeflte bur duty stomps. Two m three of the pwescetioM Ml through, and th» Customs* Solicitor gara uotira M appeal, The JWpara Halites have decided toisrito Taehko «o visit Kaipsra In February or Merab. In eoneeawMce of the proposed miihems *t Empire, m Oroto Native tetaiMßt will be Mid mstyear. At Hie loquast on llonae TWbri, murdered at Cambridge mm, Makeira T» Fepu wee committed- lor manslaughter. Thera was hard crMNurcanoff by the Native whose#**, A warrant to out for Fradrmfc Boa, charged wnh making a false diriaratlen of onrelawnt t* w eleolof lor Frasklyn North. Major D Whw«b M.H.B. for the western M*«n rketomte, entertained 600 of his cousin t;ei,u «t diosof at Baagirm, when the woku of the Natives wire (Umsiaed, Gardeo frail to bring greatly damaged by the Aedimatlsalloe Society** llaokbtodsAi the Chamber of Vommmt, 'Mr Ebr#efrtod, braver, brought forward the prosrat incoßventont way of coltoellcg the beer duty. |fe said every brewery should be cotiidrred a bond, and the working tUM gauged from time to time, after which the Wvwer could dose be liked withhto produce, 'Xhc quesliou wm portpooed.

THAMES, D*c. S 9. •tome® IWgawa Otsat, a Imohmoo, dkd miitalf. At toe tioroaot'o icqurot, a verdict of d«*to from hrorl diroaro woo wiurood.

SEW FBTMOUTH, Dm. » , Mr Farm 1m rorokod » letter effsad “ Siogi T»wkl*o° him »ot to Unite to say of toe properolo to bar® * land CJotirt at tfokau, sa to® writer io opporod toil.

WIMKOTO®, Deo.». frotorday mondag i bsyotsok sod oat* boms® Maßgfßf to DmW West, of Waiwelo, •rei* deoiroyca by ire. ' Tlw outooiue* were Wed tor £l6O is toe ftooto>> IArOTjwJ, *ad Qloto oiSeo. 'jAe hsyotsto wee. W* •wed. MrWrit emmefcmhk tote et BUM o»er toe Istaissoo. A msa csaed Bor* p»»» hw broil atrroled as WMfWoo of bring rocrorsed is the affair. Mr Brye# rslursed trow Barifeatos tide •roW. . WitoflliaJ oeowrt* bar® a&ro bssa at* -toedad wtu* gml nem*..' lo o«ie|MM»

ohowip t h« intoedf extend* iaa fela aaiuMm for one night. toaScM *iL w * Mfc hoarSB** iaprame Court on. Tuesday next, .I*®!. llw Practices Altlo civil skOnp the action Motor IvS®J4 Vd«r will to heard. mu fixed at *IOOO.. Jfto nta of tho itmtsefol eandldaies '■ haw tom fitoltea, with iho exception et ■ Boslaojr. lfe *• •totawtoS for Bmfoey pro* fe«t« hi* iimUlitylo return. lha writ for* warded Mai to telegraph. »ot haowkg what tootoomoofit.

, ■ . BtnittDlß, Duo. 19. In a case W today at tto. Police Court, tostoh of l& Mltbm frail. - Ha bad one shutter down and ft* «"» partly open, and the Resident Magistrate decided that a* the shop was not kept open so as to to offensive to persons ?o that da? the lafomiaUoa would have to to dismissed. The funeral ©f the late Hr B. S. Chapman took | lace toAay, and was largely attended. Kearly all tto members of the legal profet* •lob ta Dunedin were present. fto steamer Penguin will come up the hew channel to Dunedin tomorrow, never previously hark* passed Port Chalmers. The member# of the Harbour Beard, City Council, and Chamber of Commerce, will to aboard tor.

fmoM owe own cousaromsNT.] ■< DDHBDIB, Dto. 20. The tech today decided ..In the ease under the Females Employment Act, wherein a bootmaker was charged with keeping a lad at work after 3 o'clock on Saturday, that the word ‘•employ" as used in the Act means occupied at come handicraft, and docs not apply to all kinds of labour or to menial dutiei, such as cleaning, cooking, or such like. The boy while engaged in dusting bools oould not be told to have been employed in say handicraft in either making, altering, repairing, ornamenting, finishing, or other* wfise adapting boot* lor sale, but simply as an act conducive to cleanliness, which tho law makes no provision to prevent. An attempt to obtain a conviction under a Provincial Ordinance for Sunday trading fell through. The Magistrate arid that trader tho Ordinance It appeared to him that It was no offenoe to soft in view of a public place, and that the objeotof the Ordinance evidently was to prevent trade being cairied on in public pmoee, and ebope being kept opes eo as to be offensive to thoce who objected to it | and that it was Intended to keep them so oloeed as not to offend the public. In this ease it esemed to have been no doeocL