NEW ZEALAND. [BY TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2039, 1 August 1885, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND. [BY TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

CHRISTCHURCH, Thmaday. Thk City Council at a special meeting this evening passed the following 1 evolutions : — " That the two Local Oo\ eminent IJills, the Local Bodies Finance and Pos\cis Bill, and the Charitable Aid Dill, aie un fair in pi maple and calculated to pi ess unduly upon the laiger and moie populous centra throughout the colony ;" that the pioposed subsnly of 10a tor ovciy £ towauls the mainti nance of hospitals Sec , is inadequate and should lie increased to 1 foi €, and that the Outial Charitable Aids Boards should be endowed with substantial giants of laud." A of tlir l-yttclton Haibom B:>ard'i accounts for the last six months showed there had been a decrease in the receipts ot t'l7l'B as compelled with the corresponding period of last year. WELLINGTON, Tuesday. The Government leeched a letter fioin General Stewart by the San Fiancisco mail, stating that the Nordcnfeldt guns ordoied by the colony aie in a foiwaid state, and are of a superior class. They are expected to be shipped to the colony very shortly. The Government have also received information that the 12.1 ton guns ordered for the colony are much stronger than the same class sent to Australia. They have also receised information that a large consignment of ammunition and other war material ordered by the colony has been shipped An attempt is being made to, if possible, arrange a football match during the Exhibition between the North Island and the South Island. The various clubs have been communicated with, but replies are not yet rccened. The intended match will take place in September. TIMARU, Thursday. The South Canterbury Coursing Club's final meeting of the season was held today on the Paieoro, Estate,, The trial"), with a few exceptions, were ■pleodul, and long ones. Geinmell's Gipsy Maid won the President's Cup, Thomson's Scotland Yet being the runner-up. The Puppy Stakes were divided by ' Wyllies Lass o' Gowrie and J. Macpherson's Manuka. DUNEDIN, Thursday. A young man, the ringleader of some larrikins who assaulted an old Chinaman, was fined equal to £3 I 0«. A witness for the defence stated that he had struck the Chinaman " just for the fun of the thing." Fiiday. S. 3. Hutuhinson who is at present on bail on a charge of attempting to defraud tried to levant but was captured at the Bluff this afternoon.

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