NEW ZEALAND. (BY TELEGRAPH — PRESS ASSOCIATION] OAMARU, Thursday.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 2006, 16 May 1885, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND. (BY TELEGRAPH — PRESS ASSOCIATION] OAMARU, Thursday.

Thk nomination or ciu-lul.itts foi i!u icpivsLMitntion ot (Xi'iiaiu in thu House of Representatives took place yesterdaj T!i<> cmnlidates pnipuscil were Lord Reid haven, the defeated candidate at the last elfLtioi), and Mi T. \\. Hi-lop, «i f'-rnui numliei of the House. The show of hands wa-> in favour of Mr Hialop, and a poll was demanded by Loid Reidliaveu.

CHRISTCHUKOH. Thursday. At the imjii on the infant boy Bilges, who died from the effects of burning, a verdict of accidental death was returned. The mother, when ad monished by the coroner on her negligence in going out ;ind leaving the children with a fire burning in the grate was deeply affected, and said, "I knowall that now', but it is too late." All the Hon. W. Robiltfoh'a horses were sciatclird for the New Zealaud Cup to day.

DUNEDIN, Thursday. The Women's Temperance Union have ■esolved to petition Pailiatnent against the employment of female* as barmaids in public-houses. The foundation stone of St. John's Presbyterian Church was laid this afternoon by Sir James Prendergast. The church is erected on the site of the church destroyed by fire twelve months ago. The building will cost £6000. The election of the lion R. Stont, to be Fellow of the N«*w Zealand University has been approved by His I' xwlleney. A proclamation signed by the Governor of Tasmania appears in the New Zealand Gazette, absolutely prohibiting the unpottation into Tasmania of sheep from New Zealand.

WELLINGTON, Friday. The steamer Maitai, reoeutly bviilt to the order of dipt. Williams for the West Coast coal trade, made a successful trial trip this afternoon, averaging 10 knots. The Maitai i<? the laigest steel steamer built in the colony. The tonn ige entered inwards in the port of Wellington tor the twelve months ended April IJOth exceeds that of the pievious year by 20,000 tons.

A Blkmn* physician w.is fined the other day for uot keeping himself informed on modem methods of practice. A Cyme bachelor, learning of a slight, ditiiculty which h.id arisen betvwen a newly married couple spoke of it as tinwar of the Union A satisfactory way of paying a pastoi is m use in the I'rtsbyten.ui Chinch in t'almyra, Mo. On the first day of each month the pastor di.vws his cheque upon the bank for his n onthly salary in *d vance, and the banker always honours the cheque and charges it up to the deacons, who are personally responsible for the salary. Thk prisoners at lrkoutsy, Siberia, who were condemned for political offences recently succeeded in organising a secret society among themselves, and in attempting an armed re\ olt. The troops immediately suppressed it with a strong hand, but no fewer than nine soldiers and thirty exiles were killed or wounded in the strvggle.