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

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 2017, 11 June 1885, Page 2

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

CHKISTCHURCH, Tuesday^.. Tiih Waun.ikauii was in heavy fiesli'tod.iy It is thought tint extensile additional repurs Mill have to be made to the Noithein Railway line, as the ri\er on either Mile of the budge is scouring out tho embankment \er\ fa-t Mr Peanon, M H.R. for Ashley, was eritut tamed at a banquet by ius constituent* last night. The thiectois of the Southern Crost Petroleum Company have received a telegiatn from their works, stating that the depth of No 4 bore on rridiy last was 270 feet. No change had taken place in the stiatum, and the indications continued the same as reported in last advice. Mr Taylor, a member of the Draining Board, gave notice at the board 8 meeting to night that he will move to apply to the Colonial Seeietary to place £10,000 on tiic "iipi lementary estimates to aid the board in its present embaira u sed position. He consideis that the expenditure incurred on diainnge woiks has saved many lives, which, taking £18 as the cost of each immigtant, he estimated at £40,000, and that this is one of the cases contemplated by the Treasurer when he argued in tho debate on the District Rail* ways Ptuchasing Bill in favour of relieving ratepayers under certain oil cumstances. DUNEDIN, Tuesday. At the meeting of the Otago. Institute, it was resolved to draw the attention of the Government to the recent w holesale depot tation of Tnatara li/.irds which hat taken place from the colony, and suggesting that steps be taken to preserve them. TIMARU, Wednesday. During the trial of Lucas for the wounding of his wile with intent to kill, an extiaoulinary scene occulted. The piiioniT averred that his wife was perjuring heiself, because of the hatted she had taken to him, and all for the sake of "that tall Chinaman " He declared that he was not, " and could prove it," father of his wife's child. He pressed for an examination, and he and the doctori Mclntyie and Hogg, retired for the purpose. After a qiuiter of an hour's absence, they returned into com t, and the medical men informed his Honour that the prisoner was a cryptorchid. The tt ill was then proceeded with. WELLINGTON, Wed nesday. Holiday's Stationers Hall hid a narrow escape fioin destruction by fiie this evening, tliiough several fly-catc'ieis in the window catching fire from ga?. Damage confined to goods in window. The Fine Arts Exhibition have decided to do away with their annual display this year, and will amalgamate with the art branch of the New Zealand Exhibition. The tender of Messis Council and Co., of Dunedin, lias been accepted for the supply of cieosoted s!e pcrs. The number to be supplied is 1 ")0,000 and the contract price is £"29,(K)P, The cisc of Lieut. Purnell v. The New Zealand Rifle Association claiming compensation for being disqualified in the competition for the rifle championship w ill be beard at the Supreme Court on Monday. Herbert Allendale, who confessed to the recent extensive jewelleij jobbery was to day committed lor trial. The piincipal measiucs of the Government will be presented to the House shortly after the Governor's speech is disposed of. As yet very few of the members of the Legislature have arrived here. The Hon. W. Robinson was a passenger foi hjilncy to day. In the Banco Cnirt to day .Judge Richmond refused an application for a new tual in the divorce case Smith v. Smith and Stuke. The police are searching for the milsing men, F. Liaidet and J. S. Harris, who were shooting gimc on the Wairarapa L-ike, nothing having been heard of them siiK-o the *2">th n lt. It is feared they may have been di owned in eiossing the lake. The statement to be issued to policyholdeis in the Government Insurance Association for and against the establishment of local boaids has been issued. NEW PLYMOUTH, Wednesday. Major Atkinson addressed a very largo meeting here last night. He went over much the same ground as at his previous meeting, but with reference to immigration he said he tegrcttul the system of nominated immigration had been suspended, and thought it vras a great mistake. He was quite prepaied to support a vote for that put pose He thought that direct, steamers weie a good advertising medium, and if they could be subsidised so as to get the passage money reduced to about the same a^ the passage I fiom England to America they w ould soon ' diveit a stream of immigration to this colony. A unanimous vote of confidence was carried. WANG VNUI. Wednesday. At the inquest held on Mrs Adamsoo, of Haweia, a veidictwas returned to the eftt'u!. that decased committed suicide w bile tuinpot ai lly insane. Si'rkad of Vli.vtarivmsm — YegetalianiMn is pio^icssing in London— one teason no doubt, being that it is cheap. The National Food Refoim Society seeki to promote its tenets by means of lcstaui.mts, where vegetable food only is sold; and eight of these " centres of piopaganda,' aie now open. Each of thew» restaurants are said to feed ,100 to l."> 00 person daily. TIIK RtIMVM'K Ol THE S\UDr>T.— Mr Ai thin* A. Biumaun, wilting to the Pall Mall Gazette, says :— I once went into a well known circus in the day time and I saw a poor little devil of about eight or ten >ears of age going through hit morning cit ill, in the ring. He had nothing on out a shirt and a pair of tiousers, aud he had to make a certain number of somcisaults, five or six, without stopping from one line drawn in the dust to another. In order to come lack to hit staiting line he had to pass every two or tluee minutes, giddy and panting between the cushioned ring, and a gentleman, one of the proprietors of the circus, who held in his hand a long heavy cutting whip, such as I imagine a cowboy might use to subdue a back jumper. It the little beggar performed the pi escribed number of somersaults, Mr Meirymeu let him pass with a smile and one— only one — long playful cut across the shoulders, a facetiousness that alw a} s elicited a howl from the victim and a giin fiotn _ the giooms. But if he failed in one of his % somersault*, if, as often happened, the little arms were too weak to support the body in the reverse position, then tin cruellest jockey that ever sat down to finish by a neck was an angel compared to Mr Me.rrym.-ui. The lone cutting whip tiavclled with an indesctibably horrible sound, from the nape of that child's neck to the calves of his legs, and the flimsy cotton shirt and lagged breeches were little or no piotection. I was only a. boy then, and could do nothing but go *w«y sick.