NEW ZEALAND.

Press, Volume XLIV, Issue 6924, 2 December 1887, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND.

[P__ES3 ASSOCIATION TEIJEOnA-IS.J AUCKLAND, December 1. Wm. Henry Barfield and Charles Brown were arrested on a charge of committing, the recent burglary at Ponsonby. The offer has been made to the Council by Mr J. C. Firth to light Queen street with electricity during tho week preceding Christmas free of cost. The two men charged with burglary ai; Ponsonby were brought up at tho Police Court to-day, and committed for trial at the Supreme Court sessions, which open on Tuesday next. A number of other burglaries have been reported to the police during the last few days. The Committee of the City Council tonight decided to accept'Mr J. C. Firth's offer to light Queen street with olectricity for a fortnight free of cost, and Mr Firth commences the erection of tho plant at once. PATEA, December 1. Mr Adams was elected Mayor for the sixth time consecutively. Mr SnellgrovOi was elected Mayor of Marton. TAT____NGA, December 1. The mayoral election resulted in the* return of Mr David Lundon. GISBOSNE, December 1. Captain Tucker was re-elected Mayor* Voting—Tucker, 150; Dclautour, 9.. GREYMOUTH, Deoember 1. The purchase of tho tug Westland waa formally completed this afternoon, and a cheque for JBSOOO paid to tho vendors, after which _he passed into. tho hands of the __j-rbS_ Board. ''*'""-*'•'.■ ■ '-"■«**■•>■ ! ' v- --*-'■" "■ ■*;." : " . •;.'. BLE_____lM, December 1. William Pollard, manager of sevoral stations belonging to tho Loan and Mer-. cantile Agency Company, was charged to-day with having failed to inform tho Sheep Inspectors as to the existence of scab at Tophouso and Manuka Island stations. He pleaded guilty, and in his evidence admitted he was aware. of the existence of scab, but in tho hopes that he could stamp it out by dipping when the Inspector asked him if scab was on the run he had fenced with the question. Mr Dods, inspecting officer of the Loan Com'-* . pany, and Mr Hannah, local manager, . stated that the defendant was empowered to spend what he thought proper in the .eradication of scab. He never informed the Company that scab did exist. Mr Rogers, who appeared for the defendant* said he would only press for ft minjmnn. penalty, but would lay a second information against tho . defendant for failing tot inform tho _ Inspector every hours since he became awaro that scab, existed. If -full penalties were granted' under this information they would bring ifc up to .£2OOO. Mr Allen, R.M., fined tho. defendant tho full amount of the minimum. penalty—i>so—but said that wonld notjj . affect his decision under any future in-* formation. The case excited great .inte* rest here. __ELSO_T, December 1., An eight-roomed house at Toi-toi VaUeiyv owned and occupied by Mrs Cecilia Clark, was burnt this morning. It was insured in the Royal for .£2OO. ; DUNEDI_T, December It George Smith was fined J825, or'___, weeks* imprisonment to-day for playing the "three card trick" at tho Cattle Show. W. Dawson beat R. H. Leary -(the present Mayor) in the contest for the Mayoralty, polling BG2 votes to 72(5. At a meeting of the School Committees'' Conference, a resolution, was passed to. draw the attention of the Minister of Education to the action of the Education Board in proposing to reduce the allowance to the Committees. A resolution was also passed , expressing an opinion that the Bpard had . : treated the K__korai School Committee, in ' dismissing the headmaster, wisi so littlb ~f consideration as to convey the impression that it desired to assert an authority "not contemplated by the Act. At a meeting __ parents and householders of the Kaikorai school district, referred to in the last __so« lution, held this evening, it was resolved, to petition Parliament, praying that an' enquiry be held into the dismissal of Mr Me__auchlan, headmaster, with a view 'of justice being done, and having the provisions and intentions of the Education Act properly _£__________d_