NEW ZEALAND.

Press, Volume XLVI, Issue 7451, 26 October 1889, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND.

[PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAMS. 1 AUCKLAND, October 25. During an examination before the Official Assignee, William Adams, totalisator proprietor, a bankrupt, deposed that for the last seven years he had been working totalisators in connection with race meetings in the Auckland district, and up to March, 1886, he made an average profit of about £GOO a year. His liabilities were were £4161, and his assets were estimated to yield £1656. . A serious accident happened to-day near Ohaupo, Waikato, to Mrs Hill, wife of John Hill, a settler. Whilst she was in the stockyard a bull rushed at her, and knocking her down, gored her, breaking? a rib. Her son, a little boy, seized an iron bar and drove away the beast. The woman is recovering. A resolution was agreed to by the Board of Education to-day raising by -310 a year the salaries of teachers classified D 3 and E, and who have been in the employ ofthe Board for .five, six or eight years.

PALMERSTON NORTH, October 25.

No arrest has yet been made in connection with the Foxton safe robbery, though the police are following the clue.

WELLINGTON, October 25. Mr Mitchelson is expected back to morrow evening.

The details of the purchase of Rotorua are being satisfactorily settled, the chief difficulty being to arrange for the due protection of miners' interests. Informations have been sworn against thirteen publicans for alleged breaches of the Beer Duty Act by neglecting to cancel stamps.

OAMARU, October 25,

A meeting of those favorable to Home Rule for Ireland was held to-night to arrange for the reception of the Irish delegates. Committees were appointed for both town and country.

DUNEDIN, October 25.

A woman named Priscilla Crofts, alios Wiseman, was committed for trial to-day for robbing a miner who had just come to to town of M.

INVERCAEGILL, October 25.

The weather at present in this district is atrocious, with fierce squalls, hailstorms, and low temperature. The fruit trees, which were coming into blossom, have suffered severely. At a special meeting of the Victoria Lodge, S.C., the Constitution of the Grand Lodge of New Zealand, as agreed to by the delegates at Wellington, was exhaustively discussed, and it was unanimously resolved not to join the movement, the members disagreeing with the proposal to form D.S. lodges, and also appointing instead of electing officers.