NEW ZEALAND.

Press, Volume XLV, Issue 7141, 31 August 1888, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND.

[PMSSS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAMS.} AUCKLAND, August 30. The City Council to-night concluded their consideration of the Finance Committee's retrenchment proposals. The only other reduction of note being the cutting down of the Sanitary Inspectors salary from i>2oo to .£175 per annum. The retrenchment effected by the Council in salaries alone amounts to about iiIOSO a year, and to this there is also to be added a saving of .£IBO now paid to keepers of baths, which are to be leased, £116 16s in park expenditure, and an estimated saving of .£770 in the lighting of the city by extinguishing street lamps at midnight. Mr E; G. Fowler, chief counter clerk at the Auckland Telegraph Office, was, yesterday, presented with a testimonial on the occasion of his marriage and transference to the Head Office, Wellington. William Moore was charged at the Police Court with stealing a mare at the Dome Valley, and remanded. The accused •was married, at Warkworth yesterday, and on arriving by steamer at Auckland last night with his bride, on their wedding tour, he was apprehended and lodged in the cells all night. a man named James E. McCracken died at the Hospital to-day from the effects of a kick from a horse. KAIKOTJBA, August SO. The premises of Galway, watchmaker and jeweller, were destroyed by fire at two o'clock this morning. Nothing but the safe and its concents were saved. The stock was entirely destroyed. The insurance on the latter is .£2OO, on the building i>Bs, in the National.