NEW ZEALAND. [BY TELEGRAPH.-PRESS ASSOCIATION.] WELLINGTON, Thursday.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2078, 31 October 1885, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND. [BY TELEGRAPH.-PRESS ASSOCIATION.] WELLINGTON, Thursday.

In oidei to allow Auckland cxliihitots to s( ml tlicir exhibits homo again for show l)cfoie the Exhibition which opens in London eaily next year, the Hinemoa lias Ik en plan (1 at then disposal, and leaves hue oil Monday night. Colonel Wlutinorc v\ ill be a passenger to Auckland in the Hinemoa, where he in«.[)eit3 the \olnnteei* .it the' review on the Piince of W.iles' ]> ithday. Colonel \\ Intmoic Ind the local volunteers out foi inspection tliis afternoon. He saiil sonic, of the coip<- vvete 10 pci cent, short of then stttngth, but lie tliought the nonattenihiiLe w.is owing to cmployeis not allowing the men le.ivc of absence. At the Divotce Couit today decrees aWiolute wen granted in thocases William Aitlinr Smith v. Alice Smith, and G. A. Stnkc and Maty Jane O'Kean v. James G. Giey. Mi 11. J. H. Elliott is ga'ctled Assistant Umlei Scoretjiy in the Public Woiks Department Tlic lion. Mr Buckley is rapidly impioviiif,' in health. CHIIISTCIIURCH, Thursday. Tlie Hon E. Rieliaidson, Minister of L'ublic Wot Us, at lived fiom Wellington in the Haw:.a this morning. DUNKDIN, Thmslay. For pel nutting Sniulay trading, a publican w.ib, to ilay, fined £•") and costs, and r>os and co^ts, foi permitting diunkeiinchs in his licenced house. Fiiday. A live roomed house in Mornmgton, owned and occupied by Jos Newsoino, vias burnt flown this morning. The house and furnituie are insured for £450 in the Xoitliein. It has been decided to foim a Nurses and Invalids Home, to supply aecomodation for tho~e w illing to pay and supply muses. The TJi apery and Impoiting Co., of New Zealand, held their first annual meeting to day, (Hallcnstem, Bios.), when a dividend of <Sj percent., and a bonus of 0} percent to shareholders on amount of put chases to 20th August were dccLueri.