NEW ZEALAND.
[PRESB ASSOCIATION TELEGRAMS.]
THAMES, September 11. Geo. Harcourt, the absconding legal Manager, was charged to-day in the Court with embezzling £75 from the Kureka Gold Company, and also £14 83 6d. th« charge being at the instance cf the Official Assignee. Prisoner was remanded to Thursday, 16th inst.. and admitted to bail of £200 self and two sureties of £iOO on each charse. AUCKLAND, September 11. Mr Archibald Smith tried to commit suicide by cutting his throat last night, but only a flight wound was inflicted. He appeared in the Police Court tnis morning and was remanded. At the boxing contest at Lome street Hall last night between Jobn Laurie, the West Coast champion, and Jas. Martin, a local man, in the fourth round, .Laurie knocked his opponent out of time and was declared the winner of tbe f tikes, £25. The Auckland Begatta Committee has fixed the price of the Champion WhsJpboat Bace for the coming regatta at £160, if five crews compete. . . The manufacture of anti-fouling paint in Auckland has not proved a successful industry. The originator, G. G. Baird, examined in bankruptcy before the Official Assignee, stated that he could not induce the Union Steamship Company to use the paint for their vessels.
NEW PLYMOUTH, September 11. Mr W. Beale, a well-known grocer, for many years in business in this town, died suddenly lant night from heart disease as he was returning home from a friend's house, where he had been spending the evening. WELLINGTON, September 11. Tbe outward Sin Francisco mail takes home 103 nominations by persons in the colony who wish friends to join them, and have paid the necesearydepoeits,amounting in all to £1020. The number nominated from the respective provincial districts i« —Auckland, 40; T*ranaki, 5; Hawked B»v, 18; Wellington, 18; Nelson (Westport), 1; Canterbury, 9; Otago, 20; Southland, 8. OAMaBU, September 11. John Falconer, Mayor of Oamaru, and one of the early settlers, died this morning, aged fifty-two. DUNEBIN, September 11. Captain Baldwin has withdrawn from the candidature for Dnnedin Central.
NEW ZEALAND.
Press, Volume XLIII, Issue 6544, 13 September 1886, Page 3
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