NEW ZEALAND.

Press, Volume XLVI, Issue 7476, 25 November 1889, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND.

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_, . „ . AUCKLAND, November 24. Liabilities la the joint estate of Tonka and Co., ttostloneere, bankrupts, amount to £18,803, whttsfc the aasets are eetim»ted at «reee. In the separet* estate of B. 0. Oars, one of the members of the flrm, the liabOttifta nnseeared are JU4 lei secured, £48118s j unencumbered Meets, J61431 10a. The securities are estimated to realise 41800. The other member is D. B. Tonke, the position of whose estate haa not been stated.

NAPIBB, Kovember 33. Charles Wood, for forging an order for the payment of one week's board and lodging, was sentenced, in the B.M. Court, to nine months* imprisonment. The Coroner made an order to exhume the body of Ah Yack, Dr. Menriea having l stated his belief that the Chinaman met his death by strangling. BIBFTON, November 33. James Wilkie,- conductor of the Evening Guardian, yesterday was committed for trial at the Supreme Court, Hokitika, on two separate charges of criminally libelling Mr Prank Bird. E.M. and Warden, in *tt official and private capacity. Ball was allowed in each case.

November 84. The coal export for the week was 8103 tons.

DTJNEDIN, November 24.

Large crowds visited H.M.e. Lisard at the wharf to-day. The Mararoa was ex» peoted about four o'clock, but fogey weather and rain, whioh came on, would probably delay her. The number of entries of the Otago Agricultural and Pastoral Show received up to the present is 1178. There i> an increase in nearly every class except in* plements and carriages, and large add! 4 tions are expected here.