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

Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2199, 12 August 1886, Page 2

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

W ELLINGTON, Tuesday. The conviction against the Hon. C- J. Phara/.yn, for having voted at the last general election for the member for Foxton, having been quashed, he hat presented the amount of the fine— £loo— to the Old Men's Home.

HK L X NS VIL L X, W&\ nesday. Ciipt. Joseph Bradley, whilst removing his family ami effects from JviiwaUa in a sailing boat, after safely crossing the Heads with a strong north-east wind on Friday, soon after dusk, *'as driven ashore a few nnlcs south of the South Head. With great difficulty he succeeded in getting his wife aud five children aslioie. He ni.ide signals on Saturday, hut they were unnoticed. He was picked up by the Durham yesterday and brought [to Helensville. The cutter is a total wreck.

CHRIS I'CHURCH, Tuesday. The Canterbury Tramway Company has ileclaied a dividend :it the rate of 7 per cent, per :inuum for the half-year ending June 30.

DUXKDIN, Tuesday. Three shops were destroyed by fire at Laurence. They weie owned by Doherty, and occupied by McDonald (baker), Dale (bootmaker), and the third was under* going repairs. The building were insured for £200 in the Standard and £1,10 in the Colonial ; :md McDonalds stock was insured for C2OO in the Union, an-t Dale's stock for f."320 in the National. The iidjoinmi» shop was insured in the Nor.ru British, and was damaged by witor to tho extent of £L~>o. At a meeting of the Chamber of Commerce .1 resolution was carried that there i* no present necessity for a larger dock tit Pott Chalmers. Other resolutions regarding the endowments weie passed to the etfect that they Mould require so lar^e an outlay that no revenue could be expected fiom them for many 3'cars, and that the Chamber protest against procecdinj; with the docx on the basis of the present endowments.

NAPIER, Tuesday. Frederick Hill, counter clerk at* the post-office, was arrested yesterday afternoon, charged with the larceny of posted letters containing money. His lodgings were searched, and a number of letter* found. Suspicions being aroused from the number of letters disappearing, a test letter, containing halt-a-sovereign, was posted, and was iound in his posses* sion. He was brought before, the R.M. to-day and remanded until the ISth instant. Accused is the son of a wellknown totalisator proprietor and horseowner.

A terrible accident happened recently in the colliery pits of Roziers, near St Etienne, iv France. As two miners were ascending a pit the cable suddenly broke, and they were precipitated to a depth of 1300 ft. * The number of rucidivistes in France in 18S4 was no less than 89,000, which is an increase of 23 per cent in four years, serring to show that the number of habitual and inveterate crimiuals is steadily augmentiug. A large landowner in Cheshire has dig« charged all his gamekeepers and' has given permission to his tenants to kill any game that nay be seen on their farms. The tenants, who are much pleased, have assured their landlord that they will take care that he is never without sport. On the Hawarden estate (Gladstone's) this system was adopted some time ago, only the park around the castle being preserved. Oxi: day, a good many yt»ai\>> ago, a young" j elder making hi.> first appearance in tho | Glasgow Presbytery, modestly sat don'n on the \ery edge of a bench ve.ir the door. By -and bye, the ummtcr, who had been sitting on the other end, rose, and the young cldec wna just tailing off, vvheti $« door (ipeued, and l)r. (-rjlhui, of luchinnati, <$ cite rod, acid cutchmff hctn in his amis, said, with Ilia usual midinevs — " Sir, when yo»j cmnu to this place, y<m must try and stick to the forms of the Church." A Female Devotke of Tobacco. What would poor Dean Close have *aid to the cat>e at the lat« Mrs Griffiths, ot Llanelly, I wonder? says a writer in Fifftn-o. Not at the fact that this lately deceased lady died at the age of 103 that is a circumstance which MessersThorns and G. H. Lewis would have found of special interest— but at the fact that R]le was a confirmed smoker of tobacco, and had been so throughout her protraceed life. Her case will not help tho AntiTobacco League The use in moderation of a poison which even, when taken in large quantities, does not take fatul effect until the age of 103, cannot be, after all, such a Tery dangerous habit. The town clerk of the Borough of Hamilton invite tonders for hllintr holes in Albert-street east, up to Monday, Kith iust.