NEW ZEALAND.

Press, Volume XLIII, Issue 6493, 15 July 1886, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND.

_FBBSB AaSOCXATZOH MXBwEAMS.I AUCKLAND, July 14. The Bey. J. 8. ffmalley. Special Evangelist, closed a most successful aeries of meetings in the Pitt street Wesleyan Church. The proceedings have been of the nature of a religions revival. Forty-seven passengers have been booked here for Eimberley per steamer Tamsui. At the inquest on the body of Mrs Nelson an open verdict of " Found drowned" was returned. In the Petrel case Mendoza, the second mate, was discharged. The Magistrate deferred his decision in the case of Captain Beid and the first mate, Foley, until Friday. ' At a meeting held re the HoManga special settlement some of the intending settlers who had inspected the land said the Motukaraka land was indifferent, but the land known as the Onehunga endowment was good. The general opinion was that twenty acres was toe little for a family. A resolution was carried approving Mr Balance's scheme.

The Auckland Bugby Union have decided to inform the Sydney Union, in reference to the intercolonial match, that they would adhere to the previous terms, 75 per cent., less ground expenses. The stallion Captivator, purchased by the New Zealand Stud Company of Sydney arrived by tbe ManapourL A party of Natives searching at Wairoa found on a hill the ruins of the whare In which were the remains of ten bodies of Maoris. Andrew Sturgeon, farmer, dropped dead in the Globe Hotel at Pakakura to-day. WANGANUI, July 14. TbeWanganui Dairy Factory Company, at the annual meeting, will show over -3800 profit for the season. The purchasers of the hull of the Pelican, wrecked at Waitara, report they have saved all the timber, but found no bodies. The hull is not considered worth attempting to remove.

Mr Eochfort, Government Engineer, writing from Kaiioi, states that* on the 7th, he taw a column of steam rising from Euapehuin the early morning. Towards evening be observed smoke on the same mountain. The Natives in the vicinity are alarmed after the recent Tarawsra eruptions.

WELLINGTON, July 14.. Judge Bichmond gave his decision this morning in the case against the Cook Adeensing Cemmittee. He refused to grant it mandamus, holding that the decision of the Licensing Committee was final. A young man named Eobert Welby, employed at Luke and Sons' foundry, was seriously injured by a casting failing on him. It ia feared he received; concussion of the brain. : There is still no news of the missing man, Mr A. L. Levy. The police authorities in Sydney have been communicated with to ascertain if he is on the Hauroto, but no reply has been received. At the Supreme Court, F. W. Carroll and John O'Brien, indicted for larceny, were convicted, and remanded for sentence. Henry Field pleaded guilty to larceny, aad sentence was deferred.^ DUNEDIN, July 14. The University Council has decided to ask the agent-General to advertise for a mathematical teacher. I A rich patch of gold is said to have been discovered by J. -toberteon at Criffel diggings nnder some overlying rook.