NEW ZEALAND.

Press, Volume XLIV, Issue 6835, 20 August 1887, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND.

[PRESS ASSOCIATIOX TELEGRAMS.]

AUCKLAND, August 19. The Natives burned at What iwhau were man and wife. Kairangi and Tenua, formerly of New Plymouth. WELLINGTON, August 19. Inspector Thomson, who arrived from Auckland to-day, takes over the command of the Wellington police district next week.

Mrs Elliott, wife of the Rev. J. C. Elliott, pastor of the Presbyterian Church, died yesterday. She had been lingering a considerable time.

Madame De Luni. arrested on a charge of alleged child desertion at Christchurch, was remanded to that city. GREYMOUTH, August 19. A long spell of fine spring weather is now changing to rain. As the ranges are much snow laden there are many apprehensive of a flood, t

The Midland Railway Company are pushing on work in the vicinity of Brunnerton as fast as possible. Fifty men are ballasting the line between the"Tyneside Mine and the Junction. The stationmaster's house at Richardson is nearly completed. The engine-house, station, and goods sheds have been started, and are expected to be out of hand iv a few ■weeks.

Owing to the scare caused by the late Greymouth Hood, people are steadily removing to the higher part of the town. Within a short distance, in Tainui street, no fewer than twenty-two private residences are now in course of erection, and there are many more being erected all over that portion of the town known as the Terrace.

HOKITIKA. August 1". The next sittings of the Supreme Court will furnish an abundant harvest for gentlemen of the wig and gown. In addition to coses already referred to, a writhas been issued at the suit of fifteen settlers on the banks of the Arahura River against the Humphrey's Gully Gold Mining Company for damages sustained in consequence of the deposit and discharging of tailings and sludge from their workings into the Arahura River, and an injunction to restrain the Company from continuing these acts. Writs have also been issued at the suit of Wm. Passniore, Teremakau River, farmer, against thirtveijtht miners, representing ten claims sluicing into the Teremakau River, from Haye's terrace on the Greenstone side, and from the borough of Kumara and the Government sludge channel on the Westland side of the river. Damages claimed are £1100, and an injunction to stop working is prayed for.