NEW ZEALAND.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2193, 29 July 1886, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND.

[by telegraph.— pukss association. WELLINGTON, Tuesday. The following is the final selection of the fcttiirn to represent Wellington in the foot hall matches against Hawke's Bay and Auckland i—B'uil-back, Stock; threequarter backs, Pearce, McCausland, and Thomson ; half-backs, Roberts and Moorhouse ; forwards (wings), J. E. Smith and King, Cooper (doubtful if he can get away), lllJison, Geary, McGowan, Storey, Mclntyre, and Williams ; emergencies (back*,), Hirschherjj and Fairbrother (forwards), Short, E^tal, and Connell. Wednesday. In the Resident Magistrate's Court, Mr Hoskius, proprietor of the Wellington Advertiser, was committed for trial for alleged libel on Sir Julias Vogel. The alleged libel was contained in an article imputing gross jobbery and corruption to Sir Julius Vogel, in connection with the sale of debentures of the Waimate Railway. Certain admissions j as to publication were made, but no ! evidence taken. Bail allowed in accused's I ovvu recognisances of €100 CHRISTCHURCH, Tuesday. Charles Smith, fellmonger, for 30 years a resident of Woolston, and who came to the Bay of Islands 45 years ago, died suddenly this afternoon from apoplexy while sorting wool in his son's yard. The Lyttelton Borough Council has decided to borrow £3500 from the Government Insurance Department. MANAIA, Tuesday. Eight natives, charged with pig-steal-ing, were brought up to-day. As it appeared from the evidence that seven of them were acting under the direction of the eighth, they were discharged with a warning, and the ringleader was sentenced to three months' hu-d labour.

"The Princes Amelie," says the corre-pondent of an English paper "is not beautiful in evening dress. She' has been brought, up in the country, and has not gone into month half a dozen times in all her life, unless at Kins and Chantilly. She is self-conscious to a painful degree in evening dress, thongh quite the re verse in ordinary home attire. The odour of a fashionable sanctity which is quite the thing now wherewith to scent elegant toilettes and fine gentlemen's pocket handkerchiefs, filled the an- at this royal wedding, and took the visible form of missals, pne dteus, images and crucifixes as wedding presents." Even a little silver box, containing a small portion of some saintly bone \vrh p)et>entc;i u itli the compliments of one uf the Lutliful. This sort ot piety, however, docs not stand in the way of any pee/ie m'ujnon. Indeed, I often fancy it gives particular zest to sins of this kindly -regarded class." Mr T- S. Edfrecumbc invitos tenders up to Saturday next, tor cutting down aracia tret's. .Messrs Alfrod HuckUnd and Cn hive io CPived institutions tiom Mr H. A:.her, who is U-awnjr the district, to submit tor public competition, tbc whole ot his household furmtuie, &i\, on Friday, August Oth, at his residence, hapelitrect, Cambridge.