NEW ZEALAND.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2495, 19 March 1881, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND.

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Aquatics. Auckland, March. 19. White is doing daily sculling exercise for the match against Hearn for the , championship of the colony. White’s friends are favorable to Hearn’s proposal to make a match between White, Duncan, and Hearn for £SO each, and row at Wellington. Tbe Theatrical lottery. The case against Lieut. Hermann for holding a lottery in connection with his diorama is adjourned. Typbold. All the typhoid fever cases in the Hospital are convalescent, and no new cases have been admitted. One of the patients died last night. Vanquishers Vanquished. Wanganui, March 19. The five representatives of the Wanganui rifles, who won the companys’ trophy at Nelson, were challenged by another team of five, chosen from the same company. The match in the same conditions as at Nelson, came off this morning and resulted in , a victory for the second team. The Nelson representatives scored 418, and the second team scored 447, or seven points more than the winning score at Nelson. The Property Tax. Wellington, March 19. The Property Tax payments up to last night were :—Auckland, £21,182 ; Hawke’s Bay, £7,786; Wellington, £23,428 ; Nelson, £4,880; Canterbury, £33,811; Waitaki, £5,978; Otago, £28,032; Southland, £4,240; total, £124,449. As good as a Poll-tax. Christchurch, March 19. Ah Foo, cook of the barque Isabel, was fined £9 to-day, at the Lyttelton R.M. Court, for attempting to smuggle cigars, value £3, and the goods were ordered to be forfeited. Bating the Beek. Dunedin, March 19. W. Downie Stewart withdraws unreservedly all the statements made hy him reflecting on Macdermott’s professional conduct, and regrets that under a misapprehension of the facts, he should have made them. The action will therefore be stopped. Kaltangata Belief Fund The Kaitangata relief fund trustees paid £l4lO during the year to sufferers and carry forward £4OO, A Fatal Kick. William Forbes, aged 8 years, died in the Hospital from a kick from a horse causing fracture, of the skull. He was playing in a paddock at the Forbury, and hitting the horse with a switch when it struck out.