NEW ZEALAND.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1971, 24 February 1885, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND.

|l!Y TKLHiUAI'II — I'Ut^-> \ViO< I YTIoV ] DUNhDIX, Monday. At thu City (Joint, Luvienee White, conxiutodof the Nunthoin murder was sentenced to fourteen dajs' biead ami water, for aggravated insubordination. The liiteiriiovmcialciicket; match, after play had pone on for an hour or so this afternoon, had to bo adjoined till to morrow, in consequence ol the mi etched weather, which shows no prospect of lin proveineut. Birues and Waalier the Canterbury not-outs had raised the ecoie to So at which it stands for five wickets. Mr Alfred Austin wi itea to the Star that, by next mail, ho will send to the London Sportsman a challenge for Joe Scott to walk any man in the world 12 or 24 hours for £230 aside, or 24 hours aloue for £.">0l) aside.

CHRISTCH.URCH, Monday. C F. White, the boy who was severely injured, through his horse bolting, died in the hospital hst nijjhr. Mr Rank, Railway Traffic Manager, is seriously ill fioni inflammation of the lungs.

WELLING ON, Monday. C.ipt. Wills, of tho steamer Waketu, which arrived from Kaikoura and Lyttellon, states that when off Matunau Island on Friday, at midnight, he struck some hard object. The vessel's way was not stopped, and after calling at at Kaikouia, camo on here. Subsequent examination on the slip showed one of the phtia to be slightly dented. No other damage was sustained, and the vessel returned to KaiUoui :i to night. At a preliminaiy vnquny to-day, no turther paitiuul.ns weio elicited. It is probable a inagiateiial cnquiiy will be held.

Tn kuk ar0. '285 miles of telegraph and telephone \\nc3 laid undergiound in VV nslnn^ton city No tiouble is experienced in uoi king them. .Sut Miw s MoM'tnoiiK has been frequently e\liortul l>y Chustiau cleifjyt.ieu to embi ace their faith. He always liitens %\ itli coiuteous interest to such appeals, but never foi a moineut wavcied in his adhcrance to the creed of hi*3 fathers. Kaupa, caro of John Ormsby, Kopua, advertises a stray horse in his possession. A reward is offered for the recover} of a sherp dotf. J.L MacKinnon challenges Wjnn Williams, ot I upo, to run spiint distances for from £20 to £60. MrJ. S BucVUnd will sell at Cambridge on S iturday nokt. a number of ritehur 4 cs and hacks ot various sorts, together with dr.ti'ght ( o!ts and h.lic-, h trnt-ss, wajfeons, &c To-morrow, he will sell at tbo farm, Rangiaohia, the whole of the mc and dca I stock the property "f Mr A. Rumjay.