NEW ZEALAND.

Press, Volume XLVI, Issue 7357, 9 July 1889, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND.

[PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAMS.] AUCKLAND, July 8. As the City Club Hotel, in Shortland street, ie to be pulled down, it being pro* posed to re-build, the City East Licensing Committee granted a transfer of its license to the cellar or basement of the premises of Hancock and Co., Lower Queen street. It is stated that the legality of this step is to be tested in the Supreme Court. A buahman named Ormond has been missing from Puketai Bash, in the Tairua district, for more than a week, and is believed to have been drowned. WELLINGTON, July 8. Under the provisions of the Shipping and Seamen's Act, his Excellency the Governor has reduced the suspension of Captain Kemp, of the s.s. Australia, from three months to one. Captain Kemp's certificate had been suspended in connection with the collision in Bangitoto Channel, Auckland. Seven hundred entries have been received for the poultry show. This is said to be the largest number ever recorded at any show of the same character in the colony. Considerable interest appears to be taken in the new cable breakwater invention. The patentee has signed a contract for Port Elisabeth, on the West Coast, where a large area of coal is ready to be worked, and no less than ten local bodies, Harbor Boards and others, are in communication with the representative here for the purpose of seeing whether the invention is applicable to their respective localities. HOKITIKA, July 8. The Boss ratepayers, by 143 votes to 21, carried, a proposition for the borough to obtain a loan of .£29,000 to drain Boss fiat, to permit the Boss United Company to wors the lower level. REEFTON, July 8. Criminal informations for libel have been served on James Wilkie, editor, and W. Hall, publisher, of the recently-established evening paper, the Guardian. The cases come before the E.M. on Wednesday. The suit is brought by H. Gh Hankin. GREYMOUTH, July 8. Kennedy and Bishop, managers of the Grey Valley Coal Company, had a long oonference with the ooal miners regarding the offers made to them to take out the pillars of the Brunner mine; but both parties declined to give way in the slightest degree. * At present sixty-si* men are out of employment, locked out they say.