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

Waikato Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1940, 11 December 1884, Page 2

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

WELLINGTON. Tuesday. The hearing of the charges against William Waring Taylor was resinned tonay, when the prisoner was charged with the misappropiiation of the proceeds of certain Colonial Bank sliaies, Loan Investment Association shares, mortgages in Canterbury and Wellington, belonging to the New Zealand estate of the late Mi May, and representing a value of upwards of £10,000. After a number of witnesses had been examined, the accused was further remanded until to-morrow. The immigration and emigration returns for November as follows :—: — Arrivals : Auckland, 444 : Wellington, 150; Grey mouth, 6; Lyttelton, 28; Timaru, 1 ; Dunedin, 693 ; Invercargill, 453; total, 1779. Departuies ; Auckland, 148 ; Wellington, 68 ; Napier, 1 ; Greymouth. 3 ; Lyttelton, 171 ; IJunedin, 13 ; Invercargill, 287 : total, 669. Of arrivals, 7SO were from the United Kingdom. 833 from Australia, 46 from Fiji, 95 for the South Seas, and 6 from other places. Of the departures, 180 were for the United Kingdom, 567 for Australia, 10 for Fiji, 24 for the South Seas, and 9 for other places. Chinese arrivals were 13, 12 of whom were from Australia, and 16 departures for Australia. The Colonial Secretary will leave here on Monday next for the South. He will be accompanied on his visit of inspection by Mr Cooper, Under-Secretary, and Mr Mitchell, of the JElansard staff. Mr Buckley hopes to return here in a fortnight, and it is expected that tenders for the construction of locomotives within the colony will be called in two months. The delay has been occasioned by the time repuired for prepariu? the necessary drawings etc. Friday. The steamer Oreti, which went ashore on the West Coast some months back and was relaunched, coining on here for repairs, is now ready for sea again. The operations of relaunching and repairs cost £5000. The vessel is said to be better than when first built. On the trial trip to-day, everything was satisfactory, the steamer going a knot faster than before. The weather here is very wet. Scarcely any spring has yet been experienced. A reduction is being made in the Railway Audit Department, The fact is really that two audits have been made here, but one is dispensed with, and this will largely decrease the work in all the Railway Departments throughout the colony, as it will do away with the duplicate let urns now necessary. This change will lead to half-a-dozen clerks being discharged, but will not affect the efficiency ofjthe department. The hon. Mr Ballance returned from Wanganui this morning. A shipment of 100 tons of antimony ore arrived here from Endeavor Inlet to-day. It will be sent home by a sailing vessel. At the Magistrate's Court to-day Waring Taylor was committed for trial en two other charges of misappropriation of trust funds. A company for running therailway on

to the Hutt racecourse has been successfully floated, ail the shares being taken

up. CHRISTCHURCH, Tuesday. An influential meeting of citizens was held to day, as which the Mayor presided, to anange for a banqUet to' Sir Julius Vog^l on hia visit here. An incentive Committee, composed of the heads cf -the most leading CJhristchurcli firms, with other gentlemen, were appointed to ivrangc details. Mr E. Wakeh'eld, M.H.R., gave a lecture to-night on " Prose and Poetry of Great Britain." The Governor presided, and there was a large attendance. A man named Thos. Plaskett was run over to-day and killed.

DUNEDIN, Tuesday. An Australian draught tourney is to to be held in Dunedin on January 8. Several leading players from Victoria and New South \V ales will compete. A public meeting in celebration of the Wycliffe quincentenary was held tonight. The Kaikotira will take' 8000 carcases of fiozen mutton from the New Zealand Fieezing Company. Wednesday. The land board has resolved to hold an enquiry into the alleged dutninyism on the defencd payment holdings on run 106, Waitahnnn West. A man named Richard Whitley, employed by the New Zealand Land Agency, was seriously injured by falling from a train at Kensington. He attempted to jump off before the engine stopped.

TIMARU, Wednesday. J.is. Pulfiml for Lircency as a baillee pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to tluee months' hard labour, the judge remarking that the attendant circumstances were mitigatory of the prisoner's guilt. Joseph Dyer was charged with the larcency of a valuable security, viz., a cheque for £9. The jury found him guilty, but tiie point was raised whether a cheque for which no provision had been made in the bank (as was the case now) could be considered a valuable security. .Sentence wag deferred pending the decision on the question.