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

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1963, 5 February 1885, Page 3

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

HAW ERA, Tuesday. Xomin'VTlON's for the Hurdles Egmont FKing and D.strict Handicaps close on Satuiday. WELLINGTON, Tuesday. A point of some impoi tanee was decided by Mr Wai dell, R M., to day. A fouin.in in a boot f.ictoiy was chained \m th assaulting au appii'iitice. The e\ 1 dence showed that the appienticu had b»en shuck with a rag stick for alleged misbehaviour in the wotk-rooni. Tlie defence contended that the foieinan could exeicise the same power as the head of the turn. The magistrate, how - ever, held a different \iew, and said the lad should have been taken befoie the master. Ouly a uouinal line was inhicted. ! A. G. Sprcat, who recently attempted suicide was chaiged with the offence at the Magistrate's Court this afternoon, and was bound over in a surety of £100 to keep the peace for three months. Applications for space at the Industi lal Exhibition are alieady coming in fast, and up the present 300 feet have been applied for. The Fine Ai ts Society propose to hold an aits exhibition in connection with the Industrial Exhibition. At a meeting of the Wellington branch of the lush National League, it was dotidcd to laise contiibutions towards the pajiiiditof liish inembcis of the House ot Commons. CHRISTCHURCU, Tuesday. A meeting of A. Mooie's cieditois was held to day. The liabilities, so tar as known, aic £1,1,000. The National Hank aio eieditois ior £13,000, but aie pat t ly seemed. The available assets aie small. The nineteenth annual meeting of the Chi istehui eh Gas Company was held today. A dividend of 8 per cent for the half-year was declared. Two tin ee roomed cottaees were burned down this morning. One was insuml in the Colonial foi t'Ol, and the other in the Lheipool, London aud Globe for £100. DUNEDIN, Tuesday. Woik has again been commenced at the Milton Pottery works, under the management of MrGuyNewll, nephew of Bishop Nevill. There are five men and about the bame number of boys now employed. A twelve horns' walking match for £100 a-side will take place between Scott and Hancock (the English pedestiian) on the 21st inst. The Hoys' High School will re open after the xacation in the magnificent building elected on the site ol the old Lunatic Asylum, overlooking the city. The (io\ei nor will make a special \ioit fiom Cliristchurch on the 11th to perioi in the opening ceremony. It i^ pio posed to have a pi occasion of past and pie.-ent echolais fiom the old building to the new at the opening. The temperance party have chosen candidates, including the Hon. Mi Dick and Mr Biadshaw, M. M R. The Undaunted Oompiny, at Tucket's, divide £300 per man for eight months' work. Wednesday. The inquiry into the cases of alleged dunimjism at Waitotara West was leMiimd this nioining. The most important feature of the proceedings was the examination of Mr Jas Smith, of Gieenfield, who emphatically denied liaunp any beneficial mteiest in the sections in lespectof which dumiiiyism is alleged. The enquiry was ntjaiii adjourned for a week, so that an elloit might be made to Hud t ln eu witnesses, wiio could not so far be found. I The Tai aw era l eturned from her second Wist Coast Sounds excursion this morning. Tlic w cither was not so fa\ouiable as on the fust tup, but the excuisionists thoionglily enjoyed themsehes.