NEW ZEALAND.

Press, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4637, 11 June 1880, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND.

peSS PEES 3 ASSOCIATION OPBOIAC W188.7 AUCKLAND, Jane 10, The licensed victuallers have rcieed beer to 6i per pint. A meeting will be held to-morrow night to consider the property tax. In the oase of G-ouk v the Union Insurance Company, Judge McDonald gave judgment for the oompanyvwithout costs. WELLINGTON, June 10.

At a meeting last night a politioal association was formed for the purpose of endeavoring to hare the property tax repealed. A deputation was appointed to wail on the city members this afternoon, representing the views of the Association. KTJMAEA, June 10. A most important discovery of gold has been made in the course of the construction of a long tunnel. They have been two and a half years bringing in the tunnel through the reef which exists between Dunedin Flat and Teremakau river, and have just broke through into the wash dirfc, whioh for thirty feet averages one grain to the dish. This is 130 feet below the surface. As the lowest ground at present worked has been forty feet, this discovery is very important, as all the ground below this depth is workable by ground sluioing, 'which means nearly the whole of the goldfields. OAMABU.June 10.

The following are the acceptances for the Oamarn steeplechases, which take place tomorrow :—Maiden: Bellman, Uncle Tom, Stella, ,lieap Tear, Bobin Hood, Nigel, Mist Hungerford. Handicap: Clarence, Shillelagh, Agent, Banjo, Little John, Grey Momm, and Loch Lomond. TIMABU, June 10. At the B.M. Court to-day Patriok Egan, Thomas Osborne, Neil McNeil, John Hennessy, Peter Booney, John McCarthy, Alex. Q-odiell, Hugh Boyd, and John Coffey were oharged that, while servants in the employ of the National Mortgage and Agency Company, they did, on June 7th, at Three Springs etation, conspire together to seize and take out of the possession of the said company fifteen horses, valued at £750, of which the company were the mortgagees lawfully in possession, with the intent to extort from the company divers same of money lawfully due by the company to the defendants, but alleged to be due to them for wages by one Walter Allan. The charges were diemiseed. Accused, who are a rery decent lot of men, were kept in gaol all night, bail being refused. They thought that they had a right to take the horses for the payment of their wages. At the Supreme Court to-day true bills were found against William Bradshaw, larceny; William Charles Sidney, larceny from a dwelling; James Miller, horse stealing and larceny; William Beilly and Eobertßobineon, robbery with violence, and stealing from the person; Edward Kelly, stealing from the person; Dennis Barrett, forgery and ottering, and false pretences; James Kelly, larceny from the person. No bills were returned against William Beilly, stealing from tie person, and Thomas Dober, shooting with intent. William Bradihaw, fer stealing a theodolite, was sentenced to four years' penal servitude. William Charles Kidney, for larceny from a dwelling, was found guilty of receiving, and received four years. James Idler pleaded guilty to horse stealing, and received nine months. Another charge of larceny against him was withdrawn. Bdward Kelly, for larceny from

from the person, each Sd four The »mc prisoners were also obiS/Sk haying violently assaulted and 3.^ not guilty, and Eobertßobertson gS 52? ceny from the person.for which & Mwirri : pirabon of the previau. sentence. B e Jf! Barrett peaded guilty to forgery anduS ing, and also to » charge of by fal» pretence., for which he r«S twdw months and six month, respectivrf. At the criminal sessions Judee addressing the G r d that the Legislature wot&d/so amend X laws relating to the sale of drink as to ««,«„? licensed persons haying a pecuniary W«™S lin drunkenness. ' "»i«es*

a «. DUNED IN. JnnelO Races under the auspices of the n£™. Hunt Club will be held at the ForturvT the afternoon of the 26th inst. urßurT » on

£3000. In anticipation of new taxes, oon. eiderable etooke were cleared laat month A. contrasted with the corresponding period of last year, the Customs receipts show ft! following inoroaees:—Tea, £3163 . grJZZ £3965 ; case .pirite, £4049 , kerosene, flSff: ale, in bulk (imported) £200, in bottle £200 * Twenty-two entries have been received tea the twenty-four hours' walking match nest month. '

INVERCARGILL, June 10 A rabbiter, name unknown, was found dead in the woolshed of Woodbum station, on ft» Waiau. Poisoned wheat was found on the ground and traces of it in his mouth. It» supposed that he committed suicide or vat inadvertently poisoned. It is feared that the Stewart's Island bat Pride of the South, is lost. She left the island on Friday, and has not been heard of since. The orew consisted of three men under an old resident known as Bob David* eon.

The following telegram from the " South* land Times" correspondent was received this evening from Biverton:—"A cake of jold 470z lldwts, hoe just been brought down from Frintz'e claim, Longwood, being the remit of the first week's crushing. The battery was not working steadily. Thirty. eight tons of stuff, not picked, were put through. No washing up has yet taken place."