NEW ZEALAND. [BY TELEGRAPH.- PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

Waikato Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1939, 9 December 1884, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND. [BY TELEGRAPH.- PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

WELLINGTON, Sunday. The whole of the men arrested in connection with the illicit distillation of whisky at Poiirua have now been released, the claims of the Crown, amounting to about £600, having been satisfied. Monday,. Mr Welsh, farmer living at Opaki, met his death at Featherston, on Saturday. As the train was leaving he attempted to pass from one carriage platform to another, when he fell and the train passed over him. Henry Lewis, alias Heyman, known as the w the hangman " was today, charged with unlawfully proposing to commit murder. The charge 13 brought on the information of a Maori named Pakane H-igueru at present in gaol on remand, charged in conjunction with burglary. The Maori will accuse Lewis of suggesting that they should rob the premises of «v watchmaker in Cuba-street. The Maori states th*y were to visit the watch (i aker's shop during the day on some trifling pretext, the real object being to become acquainted with the premises Lewis is stated to have arranged that the Maori should in the event of resistance murder the shopkeeper. Lewis was remanded till Friday. Mr Win. Spinks, a very old resident here, died rather suddenly this afternoon, aged 82. Hearn, the sculler, left for Riverton this afternoon, where he contests a match for the championship. There is but little betting here on the event. It is rumoured here that Messrs Thos. Bracken and B. Galvin are about to start a .veekly paper in Wellington something after the style of the Saturday Advertiser. Galvin possessee the necessary plant, and operations are to be commenced in about six weeks' time. In the meantime Mr Bracken will make a lecturing tour thtough Otago, returning here a month her.cc. Colonial Secretary and Mr G. S. Qooper, Under-Secretary, will leave Wellington on their tour of inspection of hospitals, etc., next week. The South Island is to be visited first. A candidate (G. S. Graham) for the Government Insurance Board waa nominatod to-day.

. Mr A. C«rbcte, Ohote Flat, Wbafcmluta, advertisesji most desirable dairy farm for ' lease. Stock may be taken at valuation. ; - MrJ.jS. Auckland vrillscU at Ohaapo this day well -bred Shorthorn,, "ind T Hereford bulls, fat 'and stor. cattle, ah^p.^cJ^He h» for pritiu ««ea;ftfddfe^H*tKaHkil!].',i ' .* , < ik :

BLENHEIM, Monday. Charles Ball was committed for trial at the Supreme Court charged with attempting an unnatural offence. Bail was granted but not forthcoming.

CHRISrCHURCH, Sunday. John G. Watkin Williamson, builder and contractor, waa arrested by Detective T. Neill, charged with forging and uttering a promissory note on the Bank of New Zealand for £24 19a lid, purporting to be signed by John Bennett, storeman at Taylor and Co.'s. A gallant rescue occurred at the River Avou this afternoon, when a boy named Nelson, though unable to swim, jumped in and saved a little girl named Scandretfc,seven years old,who fell off the Montreal-street bridge into deep water. Monday. The New Zealand Shipping Company received advice from Hobart of the arrival thereat 2. a.m. on 16th of the Kaikount, this steamship having made the fastest passage on record viz. 36 day 18 hours steaming from Plymouth. N. laf. 46° long 86 J a slight mishap occurred to the machinery, otherwise the passage would have been accomplished in considerably les3 time. The Kaikoura is due at .Port Chalmers on Wednesday and will be despatched from the colony punctually on December, 20th, with ttbe first of Her Majesty's mails under contract just com* with the Government.

pleted DUNEDIN, Saturday, The Trades and Labour Council urge the Government to introduce a clause into the mail contract''prohibiting the employment of Chinese crews.'