NEW ZEALAND.

Press, Volume XLVI, Issue 7442, 16 October 1889, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND.

(PRESS ASSOCIATION TKLTORAMB.] ' j . AUCKLAND, October 15. Major-General Edwards arrived to-day from Sydney by the Hauroto. He was met- by the - Defence Minister, Colonel Humfrey, Captain Lerry, and Colonel Shepherd. General' Edwards will inspect the Volunteers to-morrow. : A Maori woman, named Hamiora, hanged herself to-day at Kennedy's Bay, Coromandel. ~ Xord Dunlo arrired in Auckland to-day. ■ Newexfrom Tonga, per Wainui, says the Egeria has just discovered the second deepest soundinar in the world outside Vayau Island. 'The Egeria returns to Auckland hextr month, and will probably start to eurrey the new cable route from fiji to Samoa, Honolulu, Vancouver. NAPIEB, October IS. In the B.M. Court, this morning, in the case of Morton ▼ the Union Shipping Company, judgment was given for plaintiff for £20, sad costs, M 2a. This was a claim for JGSO, for loss of a portmanteau on the , passage from Lyttelton to Napier. WELLINGTON, October 16. The-Premier leaves for Taranaki by the first train to-morrow, and will be absent a week or ten days. Ward, a~ piano tuner, of Wellington; has been Committed for trial at Carterton on a charge of indecently assaulting a child oi-fcender yean. The police proceedings against Mrs .Co*rjado, who drowned her infant, have been withdrawn, in the face of the verdict at the inquest and theresult of the medical examination. A meeting, to be held on Thursday, ifl being convened by circular to consider what steps should be taken to show appreciation of Mr John Dutbie's services as Mayor. DUNEDIN, October 15. In the Supreme Court to-day, argument took place on the question of granting administration coats in the case of WininUl v Gallic. A suggestion made by the Judge to defer for settlement out of Court the question of letters of administration was (adopted, and judgment ac to the costs was reserved. Six lads whose ages rangedf ram fourteen to seventeen, were to-day fined for assaulting a Chinaman. They were ring-leaders of a gang who, meeting John, chased him, pelting , frira with stones, by one of which he was severely cut. One named Seal, was fined J&, and on another charge £1, half to go to the Chinaman. The boys were evidently part of an organised gang of larrikins, aud they had tried to intimidate a witneee by threatening to give him a doing if he gave evidence. At the City Police Conrt John H. Stephens, a well known footballer, pleaded guisy to creating a disturbance and auwffllfrug & c police. Hβ wae fined XI aadeoate-