NEW ZEALAND.
. Auckland, August 4. Owing to the increasing traffic on the Waikato railway, 401 b. rails are being replaced by rails of 521 b. O’Connor, the pedestrian, walked 7 miles in 57min. 47sec. at the Tiiames. Allan McDonald is spoken of as a candidate for Marsden, and Joseph Newman for the City. In the Land Tax appeals to-day few reductions were made. At the Resident Magistrate’s Court, Hokianga. Patrick Lundon sued Lis brother, John Lundon, on a claim of £2l, for services rendered i i connection with the Bay of Islands electoral roll, placing on the roll, etc. The case was dismissed. At the first sitting of the Land Tax Court nearly all the appeals are expected to he rejected. The Resident Magistrate, Mr Barstow, has decided in the case of the City Council leases that the landlord is equally liable witli the tenant. During June quarter the attendance at the public schools was 13,531, an increase on the previous quarter of 550. At a meeting of the Pitt-street Wesleyan Church to devise means to pay off the debt of £3,800, a list sent round totted up subscriptions to the amount of £1,250 from 84 persons present. - Grahamstown, August 4. The big pump resumed operations this afternoon. The water has risen since the stoppage in February, within 235 ft. of the surface, and it will take a mouth to drain to the 400 ft. level. The Waiotahi Co. have crushed 140 tons for 1520z5. of gold. In ew Plymouth, August 4. Mr. C. D. Irvine, Civil Engineer, has filed a declaration of insolvency. Wellington, August 4. In a day or two the Government will send five hundred stand of arma_ and twenty thousand rounds of ammunition to Patea. . At the Resident Magistrate’s Court today, David Salmon, alias Thomas Cook, a saloon passenger by the steamer Southern Cross, from Auckland, was committed for trial for stealing £G from a steerage passenger. Dr. Hector, the Chairman, and Mr. Callis, Secretary of the Sydney International Exhibition,", leave by the Wakatipu for Sydney to-morrow, and will take with them the whole of the exhibits at present in Wellington. The Port Nicholson Club had a narrow escape of being burnt down last night. The fire, which occurred in the ceiling, was extinguished before much damage had been done. Tiie fire is attributed to rats carrying away wax vestas. Christchurch, August 4. Barnard, who absconded from his bail at Kaiapoi, and was recaptured in the South, has been committed for trial on a charge of sheepstealing. Dunedin 7 ,’ August 4. Messrs. Reynolds, Driver, and Bastings, left for Wellington yesterday. . The tram-cars killed a dog on Saturday and ahorse on Sunday. Jupge Johnston reprimanded Mr. Hawkins, counsel for Cummock, to-day, for having in cross-examination asked a witness when first he had told that ‘‘cock and bull story.” The Judge, noticing a policeman with his hat on in Court threatened to dismiss him. The Maori prisoners have been exorcised to-day at Port Chalmers and Dunedin.
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Temuka Leader, Issue 167, 6 August 1879, Page 3
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498NEW ZEALAND. Temuka Leader, Issue 167, 6 August 1879, Page 3
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