LATEST. NEW ZEALAND.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2842, 4 May 1882, Page 3

LATEST. NEW ZEALAND.

SECOND EDITION

(Peb Pbess Association.)

“ Hands All Bound.” Wellington, May 4. Government have received through the Agent-General a copy of the English and Colonial national song, “ Hands all Round,” by the Poet Laureate (Alfred Tennyson), set to music, with a request from the Royal Colonial Institute that this song of the Poet Laureate may be publicly sung in the colony on the Queen’s birthday. Death of Captain Rock, Mastekton, May 4. Captain Rock, an army officer who figured in the Crimea, at the Indian Mutiny, the New Zealand uar, and originally of the Wairarapa Volunteers, died yesterday, and was accorded a military funeral. Brutal AssaultChkisxchuhch, May 4. At the Magistrate’s Court to-day Arthur Piercy charged with violently assaulting his wife, was remanded for a week. The police stated that the assault had ’been a most bruta) one, and it had been necessary to take the wifes depositions. Prize Firing. • Dunedin, May 4. The B. Battery made 726 or 19 behind the Wellington Artillery. Public Works StatisticsStatistics published by the “ Times ’ show that the Public Works Department spent on contracts during 1881-2 in Otago £19,151, exclusive of payments on account of the Otago Central Railway. In Southland, £29,705. In Canterbury, £62,047. New Hotel Company. It is proposed to form a company to build a large hotel at the Water of Leith falls, and lay out seventy acres as pleasure grounds.

And Still They BurnINVEUOAEGILL, May 4. A ten-roomed house at Greenhills owned and occupied by S. Sullivan was burned down last night. It was insured for £2OO in the Northern Office. The origin is believed to be accidental.