NEW ZEALAND.

Press, Volume XLII, Issue 6304, 2 December 1885, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND.

IMB FBBSB ABBOCTAnpK.j AUCKLAND, December 1. The new Auckland Bailway Station was opened yesterday. .. A earn pie of iron-eteel of the beet «uahty was exhibited at the annual meetmg ofthe st.s'. Iron and Bteel Company yesterday. The Coptic has paßstd Mongonui and s»ay be expected to arrive here at 1Q p.m. -A meeting of the unemployed took place today; 800 were present. It was; decided the local members of Pariiawenfc to urge the necessity of providing saployment. HAPIEB , Deoember 1. Jl he building formerly known as Smith s Betel, at Makotoka, was destroyed by fire Ustnight. A woman and some children eecupying the premises escaped to their nWWthes, saving nothing. The cause Jsnhknown. There was a bush fire in the Ifcisity during the day, but not contiguous. «he building was insured for-6300 in tiie Xsw Zealand, and reinsured for £150 in the -Berth British. . _ . - At Wallingford on Friday, a five-roomed ehrpty house was found by some passers-by to be burned to the ground. The insurance wis £150, in the Standard. , .. The new by-law, designed to put down the Salvation Army nuisance, came into force to-day. The Army announced its htirntion of defying the and accordingly marched to-night witn a more hideous noise and absurdities than ever. The police-win prosecute .them at once. Asshoiriog the general desire of all parts <*-Ihe colony to put down the nuisance, *• Rapier Council has received applieatieni from nearly half tbe municipalities hltae colony for copies cf the hy-law. A Are occurred in the stables at the back sTihe Albion Hotel to-day, but by the exertions of the Fire Brigade was soon extingtushed. The damage to tiie building fcahoat £50, and is covered by icsurance -a-the Standard office. About £50 worth «f horse feed was also destroyed, bnt was sot insured. - WELLINQTON, December 1.

*«* jßiniscer or ««««» una ro-«.»~ - * Wegram from Admiral Tryon, stateng «at he cannot reach New Zealand for a fortnight. . The property tax is coming in satisfactorily. Up to dato 8000 taxpayers have grid £70.000, and it is estimated that by the 10th inst, the last day for payment without incurring the additional 10 per «•»*., 15.000 more will pay £80,000, making «aaHjeiso,oco. ■_. " DUNEDlN,December 1. Five applications were made at the neenaing meeting for the extension of *>ms. One was supported by petition, and a number of leading citizens was appointed a deputation to support it, but all nerert fused. was put through the totalisato* wring the two days' spring meeting.

At the City Council meeting a letter was received stating that the grant to the Domain Board had not been renewed, and great indignation wa* expressed, the members stating the Council had been induced to take over the Domain under falee pretences. It was mentioned that it probably would net be advisable to strike a rate for contribution to the Hospital and Charitable AiA this year, aa the Government give 41800 of the £2100 required- The contribution from the city is .£9OO. ISVBBCABGiLL, December 1. The Hospitals and Charitable lostituturns Board met to-day, and re olved to levy contributions from local bodies at the rate of a halfpenny in the £ on the value Ito let for four months, to the end of the financial year. It was resolved not to consent to the separate incorporation cf the Southland Benevolent Institute, with a view to the District Board taking up the work. It was stated that the Benevolent Institution had expended .£3666 during the last year. At a public meeting to-night it wsa resolved to continue the Southland Hoe- j pital, Invercargill, as a separate institution.