NEW ZEALAND.

Press, Volume XLIII, Issue 6628, 20 December 1886, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND.

[nuse assocutiox tbuqbamb.i AOCKLAND, December 18. Hubert Oram was fined 40s and coats today for another branch of the Licensing Act. lhe new Mayor, Mr Devore, has declined to take the chair at a piblic meet ing called to express ssmpathy with the St. Benedict's Catto'jc parahionera, «nd to etart a public fcubecriptdon to rebuild the ohuroh. The AaoUaod Bowieg Association's Regatta tok plaoe thie aitemoon. The Weatend dab wonlfonr laoes.the Waitemata Club two, and the North Shore two races. Wm. McLennan, aged eixteen, has been killed at Coultban's clawmill. Papakura. Hie head was jammed by the machinery. A Nati\e, named Thomas Peririri, las been sentenced by a Magiitrate to bread and water for seven days, for matttoos conduct at Mount Edeu Gaol. . The case ot Finnimore able InsuiMice Company, a claim ol 4S&OO on an insuranoe policy, was adjsumea to the Janoary cirfl Ee-siona. WELLINGXON. December 19 Sir J. Vogel leaves for Auckland in the Hinemoa on Wednesday next. Tae intention of the Union Company to suspend working the Eoranui caal mine has been brought about owing to the output of the Westport Coal Company and Koranni Company being in "xcera of the earryin*- oapecity of the reasela engaged In trade. Terms have been arranged between these companies by which the output at Koranut Hill will be easpended and the Westport Company's mine will be worked so as to supply cargo for all veaeele. The export of coal from Weetpart will in no degree be lessened, and it in time an increased demand and improved harbor facilities for shipping justify the step, the operations in the Koranui Company's mine will be resumed, if the Westport Coal Company's pita cannot supply what is required* The Governor leaves for Auckland in the ffin«no»oath*2Bthins*. .. :_-■: The Minister of Justice will probably go North in a few d»ys. The Executive Commissioner for this colony haa foiwatded to the Government the report of a Sub-Committee ot the tobacco trade section of the London Chamber of Commerce on the tobacco exhibits at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition. Mew Zealand does not appear to have been an exhibitor in this department, and Australia was represented by New South Wales alone, the report on its exhibits being that they were similar to American (Kentucky) in growth and appearance. Generally the Conuoittee think that the exhibits show that with due care and cultivation tae British colonies and paeeeeaions c*n produce even the highest and beet qualities of tobacco. The shipping in harbor yesterday and to-day lowered their flags to half-maet, as a mark of respect to the late Mr i. L. Coster, formerly Managing Director ot the New Zealand Shipping Company.