NEW ZEALAND.

Press, Volume XLVI, Issue 7383, 8 August 1889, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND.

[PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAMS.]

AUCKLAND, August 7. •At the first annual meeting of the Auckland West Kindergarten the balancetheet showed the sum of j£l4 10s 9d to tredit.

A valedictory dinner was given to Mr tli. Geeling, late Town Clerk of Ham Ijon, who is a&out to leave for the Keraaadee Islands.

An application -was made at the Police Court to-day for the issue of an order, prohibiting the supply of alcoholic liquor to A. K. (ireenway, a young man who recently came into a large fortune upon the leath of his father. Green way's case was ujonrned.

. At the Police Court to-day, a charge was tewrd against J. G. Berry, a country *ttier, of cruelty to animals. The evidence showed that sixty pigs had been packed, some on the top of others, in :» cattle truck, to be sent 120 miles by .rail, "When the truck was unloaded, two .tughts and a day afterwards, thirteen of the pigs were dead and in a very bad state, •tt was contended that the offence was committed through an oversight. A fine of 40s ° fend costs was imposed. Government House grounds are to be pot in order in anticipation of his Excellency's next visit.

JP& Union and Northern S.S. Company's •earners had their flags at half-mast out of Wepect to the memory of Capt. Hansby. WELLINGTON, August 7. The Eev. Mr Miln, formerly of Arbroath, «*« been appointed to the Terrace Congre !«ijHiai Church vice the late Dr. West, fwa* WiUarrive herefrom Sydney on , Jae. Barrett, messenger at Parliament eaumngß, hanged himself this morning, r* **a been drinking heavily for six "••era. and wae drunk" last night. He «|e»a«d very depressed. He was found in a jweet behind his house. He had fastened «*e door and tied his hands behind his **« and hanged himself

,_ DUNEDIN, August 7. aJSLF 68 *I***1*** Coal Company have ««K«KI to pay an interim dividend for the **X year ending June, at the rate of 5 per annum. mSt Qene^ al Com n"ttee's report, recomgiving the Tramway ComS^ 617 for th * Option of **« motive power, was l^S^fi 18111 by the Cifc y Council. »wio- n Up J eme Co**. Mr Guthrie, SoSe •S*? nfcof # tte,u » of slanderous

At «,. I P EB CABGILL, Augusts a»y th?t i ? ampion match toSLhI! npin of Menzfes Ferry, mSb;/-^** ,116 m a ploughman. John y£ w£ a "markably Bucceesful this