NEW ZEALAND.

Press, Volume XLVI, Issue 7363, 16 July 1889, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND.

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AUCKLAND, July 15. The coal mines-at Kawakawa have been flooded by the heavy rain, and it is said that work cannot be resumed for a week. The cup presented to the City Guards corp3 by the late Captain Waddell for shooting, has been won by Private Osborne. Mr Justice Gillies to-day adjourned an application for the discharge of Eobert Stevenson, a bankrupt, until it had been shown that certain claims for wages had been paid. The penal clauses of lie Act were recently put in force against the debtor. The Orlando has been taken ont of dock. Amongst the through passengers for San Francisco by the steamer Mariposa, from Sydney, is Captain Edgett, of the barque Brazoo, which was recently wrecked off the Queensland coast whilst bound fom Newcastle to Hong Kong. Mr S. Elmes, late City Treasurer, has been presented by the Municipal staff with an address and a purse of sovereigns on his retirement from office. Societies for youths and young men for culture and amusement have been established in connection with the Catholic Churches of Sfc. Patrick and St. John. The Eodney County Council decided to call the attention of the Government to the unsatisfactory proceedings in connection with auditing county accounts. WANGANUr, June 15. The inquest on William Winnings, who was run over by a train at Turakina platform, on Friday, was held to-day, and a verdict returned that he was run over by a train, but that no blame attached to any one. From the evidence the theory is that the man was sleeping between the rails and the platform, and was awoke by the engine passing him, and in moving got his legs cut off by the wheels of the carriages. He -was 60 years of age, and an old soldier. DTJNEDIN, July 15. At a meeting of journeyman painters to-night it was resolved to form a Painters' Union, and a meeting is to be held on Friday to do so. The men complain of boy labor and the low wages offered by one firm. August William Bjermquist, a Swedish sailor employed on the steamer Invercargill,. was killed this morning by timber falling on him in the hold. He was married and has a family. The Supreme Court was occupied with the case of against the Dunodin Corporation, JS2OO damages for a nuisance alleged to have been caused by the manufacture of sulphuric acid at the Corporation Gasworks. Thomas George, a well-known lithographer, died suddenly. It was very cold last night. Snow lies on the low hills and the upper side of the plains. INVEECAEGILL, July 15. Mr Twopeny, Executive Commissioner of the Exhibition, met the local Committee to-day, and gave them information on matters of detail. He also addressed a public meeting to-night; about fifty were present, when he set forth the advantage of the Exhibition to the colony.