NEW ZEALAND.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2049, 25 August 1885, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND.

[IIV TI.U,(.R\I>II.— PRKv> ASSOCI\TION.] DUNEDIN, Saturday Mpnsrs Ni.illßhos. have hiispend* 1 !! payment. The liabilities aie about £60,000, of which £82,000 is due to Henty Bios , of Melbourne. It is nuclei stood, in connection with the stopping of Ni'ill Bros., of thib city, that the pmicipal creditors are outside of New Zetland. The firm's bankeis are fully secured. Sunday. A petition, signed by all hotelkeepers who were granted 11 o'clock licenses, asking that the pihilegc may be granted to otheis who tuny apply for it, except in cases where special reasons exist, is to be piesented to the Licensing Bench. BLENHKIM, Sunday. Twenty inembets of Failiament who are visiting the district were entertained to a banquet last night at the Ciiterion Hotel, Mr Henderson, Major of Blenheim, presiding. The \ isitois ha\e thoioughly inspected the distiict, with the resources and progress of which they aic pleased and surpiised, and are to make a trip round the Sounds prior to leaving in the Hinemoa for Wellington to morrow. THAMES, Monday. An accident, which it is feared will terminate fatally, occurred m the New Prince Imperial mine this morning. James Browuhc, foreman of the shift, was taking timbor from the cage at No. 4 level, when in some inexplicable manner lie tumbled into the shaft, and was precipitated to the bottom, a distance of '220 feet. His escape from instant death was most miraculous, and is only accounted for by the fact that about 10 feet of water was accumulated in the shaft, and served to lessen the force of the fall. Brownlie sustained acrious internal injuries, and is now at the hospital in a critical condition. NEW PLYMOUTH, Monday. A store at Inglewood was burnt down this moining at about 5 o'clock. The follow ing aie the insurances on the stock ; Standard, £400; Noi thorn, £400; Norwich, £3.)0; Phoenix, £230. Insurance on the building :— Standard, £2,30 ; Northern, £100. Total insurance, £17.50. TIMARU, Sunday. A man named Edwaul Best, a tailor, died eatly this morning fiom an overdose of chloiodjne. rf« had been dunking heavily of late, and last night purchased, or had purchased foi him, tlnee bottles of chlorodjne, which he took and swallowed. He was conveyed to the hospital, where everything possible was done, but witl - out avail. Best had been sevctal times bofoie the Couit lately for failing to maintain his wife and family, and on the lart occasion he stated that thiough his wife going to the Silvation Ai my his home had become a little "hdloneaith." Monday. At the inquest on Edwin Best a veidict was returned of death from suicide while in a state of temporary insanity,