NEW ZEALAND.

Press, Volume XLVII, Issue 7546, 8 May 1890, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND.

— ■-♦ — [press association telegrams.] AUCKLAND, May 7. One of the official visitors to the Asylum, Mr F. G. Ewington, states that the woman sent to Tauranga has recovered her sanity, fie claims tnat the Auckland Asylum is one of the best managed places in the colonies. A largely attended meeting held at Wangarei urged the immediate construction of the Puhipuhi railway, and a Committee was appointed to memorialise the Government on the subject. Captain Saville left to day by the Waihora for Sydney, en route to Japan. WELLINGTON, May 7. Several of tbe country flax mills are resuming w -k, local merchants having offered to purchase fibre at a price which will leave a lair margin of profit. The local branch of the Union has adopted the New Zealand tailoresses' log. Messrs Roberts and Joubert are in Wellington just now. Part of their business is to endeavor to dispose of a portion of the Exhibition Buildings to the Bail way Commissioners for grain sheds or similar purposes. It is skated that some sections have been purchased for Tasmania. : When the Scotxa has finished laying the cable she will take up one of the Cook Straits cables. It has been working badly at a certain state of the tide for some time past, and it is supposed the cable has got fqtol of something. */ NELSON, May 7. ' At the City Council meeting to-night, thirty applications for the post of City Surveyor and Manager of the Gas Works were considered, and a ballot took place for the election of one of the applicants. MrnS. Jiokell, C.E., of Auckland, was selected, bub it was resolved to invite the gentleman to Nelson to meet the Council before actually appointing him. DUNEDIN, May 7. ' In the case which was re-heard in tbe Resident Magistrate's Court, of Hitchcock v Low, claim for damages for alleged poisoning from drinking ginger ale made by defendant, the Magistrate reversed the 'former decision, and found for the defendant without costs. Mr Fletcher, Superintendent of the Victorian court at the Exhibition, and Mr Scott, Commissioner for South Australia, were met this afternoon by a large and representative gathering of citizens to bid them farewell. Both were toasted, Mr Fletcher's health being proposed by Mr J. M. Bitchie, President of the Chamber of Commerce, and Mr Scotfs by Mr Twopeny. A carters' conference is being held in Dunedin. It has been decided to affiliate .with the Maritime Council. • < It is said that Mr Beal severs his connection with the Colonial Bank shortly. In connection with the strike of miners at Shag Point Colliery, the'local Miners' Unioh have called , out the enginemen. Should thesei go out "■ the dispute will have reached a most Berious point, and there will be a danger of the mine being injured, and of consequent destruction of .property. An unusually large number of applications for second-class land in Strath Taieri and Maniototo districts' came before the Board to-day to be decided. to : mOrrow. In two hours over 220 applications were , ",;.;.; ■ ';' ; INtEBCABGniL, May 7. . The.alleged misrepresentations of canvassers for the " Picturesque Atlas of Australia" are being made the occasion of meetings of subscribers all over this; district* ■• To-night a meeting in town resolved to raises a fund to contest the matter in the Courts by refusal to take the work, also to invite cooperation in the endeavor. Feeling is very bitter on the subject. j, "Vifong .Choy, a- Chinese digger at Skippers, died of influenza. The fact has just ; come out that two sailors who took part in the allegedimproper stowing of the Emilie deserted; and are still in the district. It is quite possible a further inquiry will be made.