NEW ZEALAND.

Press, Volume XLVIL, Issue 7719, 26 November 1890, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND.

[PBESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAMS.] AUCKLAND, November 25. Steps are to be taken to send Auckland representatives to the New Zealand Rifle Association Meeting to be held near Napier. Stewart Bates has been committed for trial by the Opotiki Bench for alleged criminal libel of theSev. T. J. Wills in an article published in the Opotiki Herald. . A well-known resident of Tauranga, Eobert Home, died suddenly on Sunday from apoplexy. . H.M.S. Cnracoa arrived to-day from Wellington. GISBOBNE, November 25. A man threw a handful of paper into the fire quite unsuspecting it contained dynamite. A great explosion occurred, inflicting fearful abdominal wounds on him. WELLINGTON, November 25.

The suggestion in Howortiia tetter to issue a warrant against the Premier and Treasurer was a joke and no repartee to the statement of the Botorua native tbat he was afraid of the Government issuing the warrant against him. The following are tbe New South Wales delegates to the Federation Convention =— Sir H. Parkes, Sir P- Jennings, Messrs McMillan, Abbot, Dibbs, Suttor, and Barton.

DUNE-DIN, November 25,

A man named Henry Allen died in the Hospital to-night from the result of injuries received by falling dowpst-irs, he having been seized with an apoplectic fit. \ A man named J. B. McFarlaae* charged with indecent assault on a child ten years of age, was acquitted at the Police Court.