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

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 2007, 19 May 1885, Page 2

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

REEFTON, Sunday. In the Magistrate's Court on Saturday, Walter Williams, chairnnuof the Inangahua Couucil, was charged on the information of the latepayers of the county with a breach of the 73rd section of the Counties Act, IS7b\ in having voted on a motion awarding liimsel: a s.ilaiy of £200 per annum The Chan in in gat c both hU otigiual and casting vote for f he motion, nd tiie facts were not denied. The Magistrate luled that the chairman in to ,ictmg rendered himself liable to the penalties piovided for councillors voting upon motions in which they no\e any inLeiest, ipirtfrom any interest in common with the public, and fined the defendant £."> .3s, and dcolaied his seat for the nding of Antonio? vacant

CHKIsTCHURCH, Saturday. Mr W. B Heath, late muiager of the National Bink, who is leading thp service ot the bank, was to-day presented by the client.-* of the bank and friends with a silver salver, 300 soveitigns, and an illuminated addiess. A fiie occurred t'ns morning in Man* chestei street South, by which Redfern'a printing-office was gutt.d, and the Railway Hotel adjoining damaged. The pi intuit; omce was uninvited, but the hotel punuscs were injured for 1130, and tue fni mtuie for £.300 in tue Liverpool, | London, and Othic The damage is estimated <it £200 to t-e building, £100 to the Hunitdie Ihe civs- of the fire U supposed to be a defective cinmney in the printing-ofhce. A walking match for £30 and the championship of the colony took place at foam-street Hall yesterday, and was won by A. Hancock by .about 230 yards. John Rayner, the Australian pert., wu second ; and F. Moisteud, Chnstchurch, rhnd. The latter only accomplished 42} miles, (j. Mulhesen, ChustLhurch, also uoiuptted, but retired .ifter ilomg fourti en miles The time was 8 hours 10 minutes i secouds. This rate finished at .ialt past ten p.m.

PAEROA, Monday. Mr ."^lieehin arri\ed huie List mglit per acli from Tauranga. En iyute he lsited the various centres of population.

WELLINGTON, Monday. The following are the tenders for the 1 amaki contract ou the Napier-Wood-»tile railway :—Aceepte I : Mullinger and iiett, Auckland, £.3o 550. Declined: \irr and Campbell, Napier, £38.752 ; H. McKenzie and Co., Woulville, £39,995; \ie\ander and Macfarlane, Wanganui, £40,953 ; J. Glendiuing, Napier, £43,000; CiiiKron and OBrien, Auckland, ♦'43.656 ; Martin and Edger, Auckland, £44,096 ; Larkmsand OBrien, Auckland, 47,738 ; Martin Dunaher, Wellington, t'18,.">73; M. T. Basett, Wanganui, £.■)!, 306. A young man named (Jhas. Blackett, % station-hand at the Upper Tavern, Maa* feiton, while returning trom work fell on i stump and was injured in the groin, re■niltinrr in death. The body of Timothy Doyle, one of the men lost in the boat near the defence works a fortnight ago, was fouud on the • •each at Evans Bay this morniug. Messrs Tole and Buckley, Commitsioners in the Bryce Rusden case, re« turned to Wellington on Saturday, having completed the taking evidence at Wanga* nui. About forty w ltnesses were eximined. It is not improbable that the commission will be resumed at Wellington, and medical evidence be given aa to khe exhumation and examination of th» lemains of those who were alleged to b* murdered. Mr Bryce has not decided whether he will go home, but if not he will present himself for examination in Wellington. The evidence has to reach Lioudon before November.

DUNEDIN, Monday. At Hindon, 530 acres of linseed, juit harvested, comprising six stacks, the property of Singer and Company, have been destroyed by fire. Insurance : £900 in the Standard Office, of which two-thirdi were re insured. The fire was evidently the work of an incendiary, as the track* of horses feet were plainly visible.

A Lost City of Mexico.— Ancient ruins, which surpass anything of the kind yet di3co\ered on the American continent, have been found in Sonora, about four leagues southeast of Magaalena, Mexico. There is one pyramid which has a base of 4350 feet, and rites to a height of 750 feet. It haa a winding roadway from the bootom leading by an easy grade to the top, w ide enough for carnages to pass over, which is many miles in length. The outer walls of th« ioad\wy are laid in solid masonry from huge blocks of granite in rubble, and th« circles are as uniform and the grade *• regular as could be made at this date by the best engineers. To the east of tbf pyramid a short distance is a email moan* tai a about the same sue, and rising to about the same height. On the aide* of this mountain a people of an unknown age have cut hundreds ufoa hundreds of rooms from, o by tO to low 18 feet square. These rooms are cut out of solid stone, and so even and true art the walls, floor and ceiling, so plumb and level, as to defy vamtion. There are do windows to the rooms, and but one entrance, w hich is always from the top. The rooms are 8 feet high from floor to ceiling On the walls are numerous hieroglyphics and representations of human forms, with feet and hands of human beings cut in the stone in different places. Stone implements of every description are to be found in great numbers iv and about the rooms. It if, of course, a matter of much speculation as to who the inhabitants were, and in what age they lived. Some say they the ancestors of the Mayos, a race of Indians who still inhabit Southern Sonora, who have blue eyes, fair skin and light hair, and are said to be a moral, industrious and a frugal race of people, who have a w ritten language and know something of, niatUenmtica,-*Asto/«fa/tf,