NEW ZEALAND.

Press, Volume XLV, Issue 7142, 1 September 1888, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND.

£—;BSB ASSOCIAT—H IlilißSßA—•] iCtJCKLAND, Augusts. The annual meeting of the sharehblde— ', of the Thaunes Gas pompauy was lield to-: day. The balance-sheet showed the sain; available ior dirision wa_ £107& i-7s 2d,; amd. a dividend of 7s 6d per share was; decla-sd,leaving a balance of •_—o 4s 2d: to fee carried forward to new account. Mr C. B. J Stone was re—ected Dire-terr, and ; Mr G: leaser Auditor. Ann Mahoney, charged at the Police; Court to-day with setting fire to a house in! |«aS cc—mitted _r. •—i»l. Bqr \ husbaha James Mahoney, accused of being' concfrrved it. the —ma 'offenoa. waa' discharged, ' A four-roomed cottage at Kings—nd, oc- j —pied by M: Men iarty, was burned today. • • An old man named T. O'Callagban, took. a dose of -trychnine at the Temperance Boarding-house. The stomach, pump was, [ however used, man, wlip.is npW recovering, waa to the : '■":, : - A smart shock -of earthquaie vrm expe>rienced in town: this —aoarmng. . .bOE-TIE A, '■ Augnst;Sl. : • The ?a«k c-f • New'2e-tiaud shipp-£"4 to-, day. 3913, ounces 'gol4,!jrilued at five wealis' purchases, Tha gold yield throughout the district continues to ; show a st—d average. TJ-MARIJ,-ugnst 8L At the E.H. Court to_*y a man na_ed B—en was fined _0b : for giving tobaoco to one of a prison gang 1 w.oTl-H-g in the ——et. Breen had lately _een in gaol, and thought ■he - as doing a kindness to a late associate. Michael O'Connor, laborer, arretted yeaterday morniivg in an out>ofH_e'Wsy jdace in Albury district, was remaaded, tul next Thursday, on a charge of .being in possession of utensils used in ' distiDing j_d of -pirits on which thedutyhadnot been paid. The police brought in two demijohns of -pirite, —mo "malt, ajjd -small utensils from ; the. prisonerfs. _jlace. H_»ry Dixon..Adams, alias Bea&jr, was 4_ammitted fox _ial on a charge of forgery and ottering a cheque for £b' _s. A man named William I—use*.: was arrested this morning, and remanded to —iri—church, «n a eh_ge of stealing a bath or'tub from C. Manderson' at Syden- j ham. on tlie 7th inst. : TfTTSTETftS, An__t 31. ■ Hi .was stated by a deputation irom West Harbor, which waited on Mr James Mills, ___~—-iday; that t___p_ were over fifty men in _c fic«oagh oat of employ-—fit, _«}. all -willing **owo_-