NEW ZEALAND.

Press, Volume XLIII, Issue 6625, 16 December 1886, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND.

[rasa Assoounoir tbum&uc.l AUCKLAND, December 15.

During the sine month* that the Lock, Hospital was open there have been 41 admlseions, the ages ranging from 10 to 46 yean. ■ - ' ' ' ' The Corporation officials were enter' , tamed at dinner last night. The retiring Mayor will be banquettec* on TueEday sest

The Sanitary Inspector in his annual report on the health of the city cf Auckland says the deaths of infants and children under one year and five years is a source of the increase: The total number is 266 for 1886 as ocmpared with 231 for 1885, whichis more than half the total numbei of deaths for the year. This mortality of infante and children under one and five years is something alarming in Auckland, whatever is the cause. No fewer than 209 children , under one year and five years died out of a total number of 266 Thia ia far in excess of any other city in New Zealand.. . A letter has been received from the Hon. James White, stating that he is coming to Auckland in the Maripbea on her return trip. He says he is not coming for the races, but will be present at the annual •ale of yeerjinga at Sylvia Park to see the last sale of poor old Musket's etock. ; Three lads guilty of orchard ribbing, were ordered by the Feaeh to day to be whipped by a constable in pre3enca of the parents, if the Utter desired. The* corporation annual report shpwe an injreaee in the valuation of city property for the year of .£28.621, and an increase in the rates of .£3OO. j At a meeting of the Auckland Racing CJnb to consider the rescinding of the new rule with regard tithe working of totalisator at country meetings, the decision was sustained, the rules preventing any revisal.

Several employers have been fined for breaches of the Employment of Females and Others Act. An Austrian, Giovanni Domm;cio, a gam digger, cut his throat, laying bare the windpipe, during a fit of lunacy in the Hospital. He is likely to recover. -'■ HAWERA, December 15.

At the District Court Benjamin Ward, convicted of larceny of a saddle, was recommended by the jury for probation. Judge Bawson said in his opinion the Act was mainly intended for young persons and children, and was not intended to give a licence to people to steal once, without fear of imprisonment. In consideration of the jury's recommendation, the sentence would only be three months; GIBBOBNB, December 15.

la the Supreme Court Ambrose Wickeas, indicted for unlawfully wounding', via sentenced to "»"«»months. WELLINGTON, December 15. The body of a crazy Maori -woman, aged seventy, was f jund on the beach in Porirua harbor. '■ The officers of the Wellington Volunteers thie evening entertained bir Q. Whitmore at a banquet in honor of his promotion. Colonel Batte presided. About forty officer b were present. The Chairman proposed the "Health of Major-General Whitmoie," which was responded to with entnnsiasm. Mr BOey,a local publican, has offered the Wellington cricketers if they will obtain the services of a professional coach to provide aim with free board andlxJgAn it quest was held to-day on the recent fire wnicb destroyed or ttages the property of Mr Whamby, in Tenakori road. The jury found a verdict that the premises were maliciously burnt down, out the evidence did nob point to the offender. i The Government have received fifteen applications for the position of Inspector of Machinery. - At a meeting nf the Hospital Committee it was decided to invite voluntary aid from the ladies of Wellington in making street collections for the benefit of the Hospital fond.

The monthly expenditure on relief by the Benevolent Booiety for the past four months has averaged J8240. A young man named James Brenuan. aged twenty-thiee, d&seed as a laborer, mi arrested this evening charged with indecently assaulting a yeuag girl. DUXEDW, December 15. The question of licensing out a girl from the Benevolent Institution to a freethinker named Low was again before the Committee of the Institution. An application was made by another person for the tame girl, and the Chairman held that Low's application, which had been postponed till after the examination, was not before the Committee.. Most of the members did sot agree wttk this, and the matter was adjourned till after toe annual meeting of mbeariben. An inquest was held on the body of John Carrie, a laborer, who died suddenly while at tea at Mount Hyde, apparently from suffocation, although he had put nothing vi his mouth. After the eridenoe a verdict of death from natural causes waj returned.

The Hospital Trustees, after consider;*? aletter from the Chrietchvrch Board re-

spectmj the admission of .patients BuffeTaettom delirium tremens,^ decided to~*dijmm the matter. Host of the members, noweT»r, expretsed approval of such patients not being admitted. LNVEKOAI GILL, December 15. Id the Supreme Court to day, a verdict for defendant was given by Mr Justice Williams in a case in which a constable Btanened at Matiura was euedfor damages by a mas whom he had apprehended without warrant on a charge of stealing a dog which the officer found on his premises His Honor held that tier© were circumstances which justified the constable in arresting. At the Divorce Court a decree nisi was granted in Sheridan v S'aeridan and Jobneton, a husband's petition for divorce, on the grounds of adultery. The co-respon-dent is a youth of seventeen. >'o cotts were asked for agaiuet him.