NEW ZEALAND.

Press, Volume XXXI, Issue 4291, 1 May 1879, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND.

■■"■"■'- Tbbp PBBSB iOHNOT.] . WBBiprGTON, April 30. About one o'clook. this morning a policemaii learing loud criee-for help near the railway station, went to the spot, and found a wpmaD, who led him to an out-honae, where he found Joer husband, Mr Keals, of the Customs, ly&'g on the floor with hie throat cut. Hβ had lost a great deal of blood. - For a few days back'he had been in a depressed condition. Hβ left the houea that evening to attend a Masonic Lodge. Mr Keola is now in a precarious condition.

OOT.OWB COBBBBPONDENT.J ' April 30. A butcher named Orme has been committed for trial at the Supreme Court, charged with perjury. , r . A prospector has jnafc returned from a prospecting; expedition from the Waihi Plains, in the Ohinetnutu di«tar_iot. Hβ atates that He'Mβ discovered the'existence of gotd, eilrei*, iron stone, and kerosene, oil. The discovery of the last-named article is &n important one. -,_:■.:.

-" BLENHEIM, April 30. [ Henry Janeery, charged on a warrant from .o*§y,™outh, with stealing two brooches valne £5, the-property of James Main, mm, on the application of the Inspector, remanded to β-reymautli. ■ /

Mrs Redwood, mother of Bishop BedWood and of Mr Henry Bed wood, the racing man, died this morning aged eighty-four years.'.'"' ' :, " '■ '"': ■ •■■.-■■•:■• ••

,In the lottery case, Police versus Stevenson, the Magistrate said that, in the absence of any local or colonial legislation, he had to fall back on the English, law. In the Act subsequent to the one under which the information was drawn, it was provided that penalties in such cases should be recovered at the suit of the Attorney-G-eneral. Consequently the case was disßussed.' ■ . ,

TIMAJBLU, April 30. ' The Custom* revenue collected in Timarn daring the month ended to-day was £2586,. showingan inorease of £921 8s Id over the the correeponding month of last year. The Registrar's returns for the month are 26 births, 10 deaths, and 14 marriages. deaths show ft marked decrease compared with the few previous morths. -s. : The report Which has.been spread abroad that Captain ~. Hamer sley, of .. the;. Ximoru ; Tolnnteers, is to be summoned to appear at Dunedin police-court for riotous conduct in lite Arcade fee fftbrication,- ;

The Borough Council resolved last night to! reduce their engineer's salary from £750 to £606, owing to the want of funds. During last month the ressels which arrived in 25m&ra aggregated over 6000 tons register A large number of fickets hay* beenaold for the Qhveiam'a ball, and it is estimated that about ,300 persons will be present, MAIiVBRBT, April 30. Mesers Blair, O'Connor, and party armed ¥ re .%" d *f> hßTh, g fimehel eiptoring i the different proposed railway routes, the Waimakiriri Valley being the last inspected. The report is premature that any route is yet decided upon. /-CPreas SpettTal Wire.} ; _ ATJOKLhSD, April 3a A telegram from Cambridge, Waikato, eaye '

that great indignation and^l^T^ s i expiHMd here at the witboW?** , *»t I H it* ensuing sitting. *& Jg *j^ J wo nnited in condemning the L; i Government in the matter, as it mini of tb c J practical effect of shutting U nii^ , H» *' country beyond Cambridge. v he W\ j. At the Police Court to-day « ' Brown was charged with attem D tb» ■ k * - aboard these. Wellington JfiS?' SUlci *« : from Wellington to Auckland nr, F Aprfl. Sub Inspector P.SJ , ffift 88 * ' was in a state of delirium tnvten* tt o * ll " remanded tUI Bth May. ' S « *i } Melchior Frei, convicted yeetordS? 3 , o, lawfully wounding with a etono, vraa «L Cn, to threa months' hard labour Th Ceij against Worgan, for for e irg and' u4l ™* • now proceeding. """Hag,., WELLINGTON, Aprils Daring April thero were 104 birth. ."7 decthe registered in Wellington and3l riago certificates issued. ' ffi *r« The treasurer of the KaiUoguta n v Fund acknowledges receipt of the f o S sums :-Colleetio» in General Ge£« f* Buildings, £80 10«; per Masonio'lffiS* r 15s 6d. The total amount recced I £1109 18s lid. In addition to thU, ouS Ibae been collcoted amongst the rffiee« f»\ telegraph department, aud eorne small \ have yet to oome in from the same eonwT 2 * : A party from the Geological SwveVVi partment, headed by Mr McKay W • ' returned after an exploring tour on the Coast and North-west of kelson prow ' distiict. They hare been ouuincoKo T ' e inK last. The district examined is very ronrfr r its physical features, abounding in/monJ.; 0 up to 6000 feet in altitude, so that theinK suffered considerable hardship. Oce »Llj? of the toip is the collection of a,splondjfl! ♦ ' of lower palwDzoio fossils, very rioh i n f> of life that havo only been found m f? oldest formations in other parts o f n * world. ; • tn« During a recent visit to the jSTortb li. t: Hector obtained from White Island ua«u f of ■water, with the ?iew of determiniDe tC f exact nature. It is found that the watcjT t JLake Hope contains a Urge porocctageS muriatio and eulphttrio acids, and tliat;tk' boil'ng springe which surround the lake era '* tain only muriafcio eeid. The sulphur ntfi. J recently established eeem to bo abandoned I though a house had been erected and law. I piles of sulphur had been got ready forshjf I' ment. ' ■ f

' The police this afternoon nmda a aid en ! those' shopkeepers who are in tho hsbitjf ! hanging their wares outside their Bhosj,«3 ' " compelled them to remove their goods. Thewaterwork* committee has decided k ■ recommend that an additional water aupjly " should be obtained from Wainui-Omaia, : The Government are preparing & m \ setting forth various parasitio insect* wS&h 1 affect sheep,, and explanatory of their action }~ upon the animal and its wool. The memo, is ? drawn up by Br* Hefltor, and is illuitratedb? I marginal cute 6f several paroeitee. Itiifo. ? tended to publish this paper along with Qμ | Scab Act, and the formg required under the X same. If

; The Government presented tho "Working Men's Olub with a copy, of all Porliaiueatary papers iv print up to thi* time, gometto hundred Volumes or ep, all nicely,bound. The Collector of Customs, after the con'jlueionof the preliminary.. eoqturj into the wreck of the schooner Huby, determined thx no further enquiry •was neoesiary, ac Oaptwn Baokstrom wae in no way to blsmo,

OIMAEU, April 80. I The school committed f to-night decided to [. adhere, to their forme* reeolation, and it. U claifed , to recommend any candidate* Ut \ : appointment to the vacant head maeterslip ot i the north school, and second masttnbip of | aouth school, until the, whole of the appli- | cations are placed boforo them. I master of the north school will leave in afsw | days, education in that eohool will beiwwfit- \ to a> ttanditill unless the Board give ia, xba committee are determined to maintain \hi\i right to) inspect all applicatione. I , ■;■"■; DUNBDiIT, Abrfl3o. . The annual session of the Otngo Usiferrity commencee tomorrow. There are sixteen candidates for the matriculation examination and three for tho preliminary examination in medicine.

i Tho Q-overnor end emfce to-day -riaited Gie Moegiel Woollen ITiactory Company'*wori», To-night they attend the ohoral concert, «af to-morrow at noon his Excellency holij jn 1 ra»dreee ; leYee. ,•'• H. I Tho Tital rtatietiee for the Daroedin dfetrict f for the month ending April 30tb aro—Bijtlsi, f| j. deaths, 58; marriages, 54. For fibs fecorresponding period of lajtyearthe retun* I i^ere—Birthe, 159j deathe, 41; mamagjjj I 87i • There hare been inorertuurriagee'durißf I the month ended to-day than in any mouts 1 during the last fire years. - Viv Gheorge-' Grant, -the eeorotary oE the '< Danedin committee, at en interviow Tester- | day morning, presented to Hi* Excellency o ; report by the committee as to the result of their labors hitherto in aid of the exhibition. The report was considered in r detail by His Excellency, who takes the keenest interest in erorjthiDgcoii" nected with the exhibition. Hie Eicelltmsj , etpreeeed the groateat ploaeure on aacertoinisg how aealotiely aDd enooeeefally thft asertsowr of the oommittee had. been met, and said that ifroin what he had seen he flnticiputedSlmfc ,tho coHtributions from Dunedin and its iur* rounding dietriot would bear cowparisoa with I those from any other in New Zealand. ' Ai& manuteoturing centre ;;he 'anticipated the (greatest prosperity for Otago. ; A meeting of the Harbor Board wae h?!i to-day, to consider certain made by Mr Neil, one of the members at the Isrt meetiflg of the Board, Aβ tbe daexssAoa \ coon became warm the Board wont into committee

DJYEBOARGirt, ApHl3ft Afc a meeting of taeHarljoT Bi»w( to-day, a notification was reoeiyed from the Colonial Bank, raising the iate, of interest on the overdraft from eight to nine per cent. It was deoided that negottatione for floating m Board's loan in the ioqeUm; market through the Colonial Bant ehonld be. QP?" 6 " tt P«" Xh& minimum price was disclosed at 95.